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Security Update
This morning in Geneva, the United States and other world powers
agreed to a deal with the radical mullahs in Iran over their nuclear
program. What details have been released indicate it is a very bad
deal for the United States and can be interpreted as rewarding Iran
for its decades of radicalism and terror.
Even more
important, Obama and Kerry seem to naively believe Iran can be
trusted. What gives them that idea? Iran has been lying and
terrorizing the west for over 30 years. Nothing has changed. In fact,
the United States went down this path with North Korea and it lead
directly to its getting nuclear weapons. Read this article which sheds
more light on the Iran deal.
A Bad and
Morally Indefensible Deal (NationalReview.com)
By Jack David, November 24, 2013 1:00 AM
The
announcement that the P-5+1 (the five U.N. Security Council members
plus Germany) reached a nuclear deal with Iran has just been made. A
few details of the deal have been announced and there likely will be
others. But what has been reported so far is sufficient to conclude,
as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said of the draft deal reported
two weeks ago, that "this is a very, very bad deal."
The
Iranian "concessions" thus far announced are unimpressive: Iran will
stop enriching uranium beyond 5 percent; it will install no additional
centrifuges; it will convert the 100 pounds or so of 20 percent
enriched uranium which quickly can be converted to weapons-grade
uranium to something harder to convert to weapons-grade uranium. Iran
has not agreed to dismantle any of the thousands of centrifuges it has
installed and continues to operate; to send any of its 20 percent
enriched uranium out of the country; to close the nuclear facilities
which will soon provide it with plutonium with which to make nuclear
weapons; to stop its testing of long-range missiles; or to cease its
support of terrorist activities by Hezbollah and others.
The United States has reportedly agreed to provide Iran with $7
billion in sanctions relief. This relief doubtless will help Iran in
many ways, not least the “right” to continue the dangerous
nuclear-weapons development and terrorist-support activities which it
has long maintained. It will not be in the least surprising, as more
details of the deal are announced, to learn of other benefits provided
to Iran to induce it to agree . . . to something – anything.
The U.S., by pressing forward with this very, very bad deal has
further eroded its dwindling international credibility. No country in
the Middle East will perceive U.S. agreement to this deal as anything
but further evidence of its weakness, further evidence that the U.S.
is content to undermine its historical alliances, expressions to the
contrary notwithstanding.
In defending the deal, the
United States (and perhaps others among its P-5+1 partners) doubtless
will point to the fact that it is only an interim step and that Iran
has agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to
visit its still-operating facilities. Given Iran’s long history of
preventing IAEA inspectors to do their jobs and its long history of
flouting its obligations regarding its nuclear program, the value of
this Iranian promise should be discounted to zero.
In a
speech in Tehran this past week to a crowd of thousands that was was
broadcast live, Iranian Supreme leader Khamenei attacked the U.S.,
France, and Israel, saying that "Zionist officials cannot be called
humans, they are like animals," that “the Israeli regime is doomed to
failure and annihilation," that the "Zionist regime" is the “rabid dog
of the region."
The deal the U.S. and its partners just
struck with Iran is a "very, very bad deal" as a practical and a
political matter. In the context of Khamenei’s contemporaneous
statements and the background of so many other statements of similar
stripe, it is also morally indefensible.
— Jack David,
a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute, served as deputy assistant
secretary of defense for combating weapons of mass destruction and
negotiations policy from 2004 to 2006.
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