“This agreement, as we long foretold and expected, does not dismantle any element of Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure –– its existing nuclear research and development programs, its thousands of centrifuges, its nuclear facilities (known and unknown), its enriched uranium stocks, its Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).
“This agreement contradicts every substantive assurance President Obama and his Administration gave on stopping Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
President Obama dropped the demand that Iran dismantle its thousands of centrifuges.
President Obama dropped the demand that Iran shutter its plutonium facility at Arak –– a facility not required by any conceivable peaceful nuclear energy program.
President Obama dropped the demand that Iran shutter its underground nuclear facility at Fordow.
President Obama dropped the demand that Iran accept free, unfettered, and unannounced inspections of all of its nuclear facilities. Instead, inspections must now be approved by a committee which, amazingly, includes Iran itself, and Iran has 24 days to approve or reject the request for inspection –– ample time for Iran to conceal or destroy evidence of its cheating and non-compliance.
President Obama dropped the demand that Iran fully account for the military dimensions of its past clandestine nuclear research and development programs.
President Obama dropped his insistence that non-nuclear sanctions imposed on Iran for its role in international terrorism and abuses of human rights would remain firmly in place. Instead, he has redefined all sanctions on Iran as being essentially nuclear-related in order to lift them. Not only that, but it appears now that arms embargoes on Iran will be lifted within five years, enabling this already dangerous regional power to become still more menacing and aggressive.
“As a result of this extraordinary chain of appeasement, this nuclear deal signed in Vienna today will deliver the path to nuclear weapons to Iran, the Nazi Germany of the Middle East. Worse, it is illusory that sanctions can be ‘snapped back’ if Iran violates the agreement. The U.S. will not make that determination –– instead, a committee that includes Iran will. Can one imagine Russia or China, which stand to gain huge economic advantages from the easing of sanctions, agreeing to reimpose sanctions?
“Moreover, does Iranian behavior to date suggest we have any reason to trust in Tehran’s honesty and commitment to this agreement? Just recently, Iran attempted to evade sanctions and import a shipment of nuclear compressors compatible with its nuclear program. It has also attempted to procure nuclear material through black-listed firms. That is what Iran does now, before an agreement and when it is bound by sanctions. Who believes that Iran will be more law-abiding and careful once sanctions have been lifted?
“The radical Shia Iranian regime is already the biggest supporter, sponsor and facilitator of radical Islamic terrorism. This deal will result in the freeing up of $150 billion in frozen Iranian assets and will also result in tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief for Iran each year.
“With this stupendous windfall, Iran will dramatically increase its funding for radical Islamic terror groups, especially for Hezbollah and Hamas. Only last month, Iran gave Hamas tens of millions of dollars and provided Hezbollah with tens of thousands of missiles to use against Israel. Both of these terror groups, committed to Israel’s destruction and the the murder of Jews, can be expected to receive literally tens of thousands of new missiles to target Israel in the months and years ahead.
“This deal was struck at the very same time Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hasan Rouhani have been leading rallies calling for death to America and Israel. Indeed, billboards all over Iran proclaim ‘Death to America.’ Iranian television regularly broadcasts simulations of nuclear attacks on Israel and strikes upon U.S. carriers in the region. Indeed, the preamble to the Iranian Constitution itself declares the hope that Iran witness the establishment of universal “holy” government and downfall of all others. Yet, President Obama ignored all this, even after Iranian leaders stated that, even after this deal is signed, the U.S. remains the number one enemy of Iran.
“Worse, the normal calculus of deterrence, such as prevented the Cold War with the Soviet Union turning hot, does not apply here. As the doyen of Middle Eastern historians, Bernard Lewis, has put it, “MAD, mutual assured destruction … will not work with a religious fanatic. For him, mutual assured destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.”
http://zoa.org/2015/07/10290216-zoa-iran-nuclear-deal-is-a-catastrophe/Really ?
What about regime change in Iran ?
Or at least bombing its nuclear facilities - and thus crippling and destabilizing its evil regime ?
Or at the very least not signing a "deal" providing a genocidal theocracy screaming on any occasion "Death to America !" with nuclear arms-and nuclear missiles ?
