by:
Pamela Geller
Power without accountability in action. I called it all in my 2010 book, The Post American Presidency. Obama’s remarks today were not merely dishonest, they were
duplicious. he lied. Big, bald-faced lies. And the media, his organ
grinder’s monkey, delivers it unchallenged to a clueless American
public.
Photo:
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif waves the nuclear deal on the balcony of the Palias Coburg in Vienna
Weighing the Arguments for an Iran Deal – WSJ
Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, a supposed reformer, spent last Friday
marching prominently in the regime’s yearly “Death to America, Death to
Israel” parade. If there is evidence of an Iranian trend toward
moderation it behooves proponents of a deal to show it.
Omri Ceren nailed it when he said, ” It’s not that the concession
wouldn’t be devastating – it would light up the region in so many
different ways that they’re difficult to catalogue – but it just doesn’t
seem possible that the Americans can give ground on this. What’s the
sales pitch to Congress going to be? “Not only are we giving Iran $150
billion to bolster its military, but we’re also lifting arms
restrictions to make it easier for them to buy next-generation cruise
missiles they’ll use against the U.S. military and our allies.”
The Mullahs and ballistic missiles.
Iran wins $18 billion in sanctions relief, By Cheryl Chumley, WND, July 14, 2015
Obama ‘just lit a fuse for a nuclear arms race’
President Obama in a 7 a.m. news conference, during which he looked
directly into the lens of the cameras, said: “This deal demonstrates
that American diplomacy can bring about real and immediate change. …
Today, because America negotiated from a position of strength and
principle, we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this
region.”
Just the opposite is true. We caved on everything and set off a nuclear arms race in the region.
He said the forged deal is a win-win, and assured “every pathway to nuclear weapon is cut off.”
Among its specifics he cited: Iran is halted from producing highly
enriched, nuclear grade plutonium; Iran will have to remove two-thirds
of its centrifuges and store them under constant supervision; Iran can’t
use its centrifuges for the next ten years; and Iran will have to
modify its reactor in Iraq so it can’t produce weapons grade plutonium.”
Obama also guaranteed U.N. weapons inspectors would have access to
visit Iran’s military sites and check for compliance with the deal.
Just the opposite is true. We caved on everything and set off a nuclear arms race in the region.
He said the forged deal is a win-win, and assured “every pathway to nuclear weapon is cut off.”
Among its specifics he cited: Iran is halted from producing highly
enriched, nuclear grade plutonium; Iran will have to remove two-thirds
of its centrifuges and store them under constant supervision; Iran can’t
use its centrifuges for the next ten years; and Iran will have to
modify its reactor in Iraq so it can’t produce weapons grade plutonium.”
Obama also guaranteed U.N. weapons inspectors would have access to
visit Iran’s military sites and check for compliance with the deal.
(2) The sanctions regime will be shredded – the AP revealed at the
beginning of June that the vast majority of the domestic U.S. sanctions
regime will be dismantled. The Lausanne factsheet – which played a key
role in dampening Congressional criticism to American concessions – had
explicitly stated “U.S. sanctions on Iran for terrorism, human rights
abuses, and ballistic missiles will remain in place under the deal.”
That turns out to have been false. Instead the administration will
redefine non-nuclear sanctions as nuclear, so that it can lift them. The
Iranians are boasting that sanctions against Iran’s Central Bank, NIT
Co., the National Iranian Oil Company, and 800 individuals and entities
will be lifted. That’s probably exaggerated and a bit confused – CBI
sanctions are statutory, and will probably not be getting “lifted” – but
the sense is clear enough.
(3) The U.S. collapsed on the arms embargo – Just a week ago Dempsey
told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “under no circumstances
should we relieve pressure on Iran relative to ballistic missile
capabilities and arms trafficking.” Now multiple outlets have confirmed
that the embargo on conventional weapons will be lifted no later than 5
years from now, and that the embargo on ballistic missiles will expire
in 8 years. No one in the region is going to wait for those embargoes to
expire: they’ll rush to build up their stockpiles in anticipation of
the sunset.
(4) The U.S. collapsed on anytime-anywhere inspections – The IAEA
will get to request access to sensitive sites, the Iranians will get to
say no, and then there will be an arbitration board that includes Iran
as a member. This concession is particularly damaging politically and
substantively because the administration long ago went all-in on
verification. The original goal of the talks was to make the Iranians
take physical actions that would prevent them from going nuclear if they
wanted to: dismantling centrifuges, shuttering facilities, etc. The
Iranians said no to those demands, and the Americans backed off. The
fallback position relied 100% on verification: yes the Iranians would be
physically able to cheat, the argument went, but the cheating would be
detected because of an anytime-anywhere inspection regime. That is not
what the Americans are bringing home.
(5) The U.S. collapsed on PMDs – This morning the Iranians and the
IAEA signed a roadmap for a process that would see Tehran eventually
providing access for the IAEA to clear up its concerns. This roadmap
differs in no significant way from previous commitments the Iranians
have made to the agency, except now Tehran will have received sanctions
relief and stabilized its economy. Administration officials will have to
look at lawmakers and nonetheless promise that this time the Iranians
will give the IAEA what it needs.
“This deal is not built on trust,” Obama said. “It is built on
verification. Inspectors will have 24-hour access to Iran’s key nuclear
buildings.”
But a senior nuclear official said if IAEA inspectors must first
petition Iran for permission to visit the sites 14 days in advance.
In return, Iran gets $18 billion in international sanctions’ relief.
Obama said the sanctions’ relief will be phased in, as verification of
compliance with the accord is achieved.
The deal also includes a caveat that if Iran fails to disable its
centrifuge machines within 65 days, the sanctions go back in place.
What’s sure to be a controversial sticking point on Capitol Hill and
in Israel especially is the facet of the deal that allows for Iran to
stall IAEA inspectors from accessing suspected sites.
Critics are already lining up, saying the $18 billion gives Iran an
open door to continue its terror activities around the world. And Sen.
Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, called the accord a path for Iran to develop
nuclear weapons.
“Sadly the administration just lit a fuse for a nuclear arms race in
the Middle East,” he said in a statement. “[It] allows for controlled
nuclear proliferation.”
Iran has already positioned itself to take advantage of the sanctions
relief. In the hours leading up to the announced deal with the six
world powers, Tehran’s biggest oil-shipping company was already prepping
to hit the European and international markets, as WND previously
reported.
Obama said the deal will be solidified with a U.S. Security Council
resolution, after Congress and the American people have a chance to
review it. He also issued a warning, telling Congress that while he
welcomes members’ input and discussion, a failure to approve the plan
would leave the world in peril.
“Consider what happens in a world without this deal,” he said. “No
deal means a greater chance for more war in the Middle East. … It would
be irresponsible to walk away from this deal. I welcome robust debate in
Congress on this issue … but I veto any legislation that prevents the
successful implementation of this deal.”
Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking from Vienna, Austria, assured
the deal would clamp Iran’s ability to enrich uranium well below the
level needed to manufacture a weapons. He also said Iran’s Fordow site
will be “transformed into a nuclear physics and technology center” that
will be “subject to daily inspection.”
Kerry, like Obama, also spoke of the verification benefits and
confirmed the sanctions’ relief only starts when Tehran meets key
conditions of the accord.
“This agreement has no sunset,” Kerry said. “Inspectors will be able
to gain access to any [facility] the IAEA … deem suspicious.”
16 reasons nuke deal is an Iranian victory and a Western catastrophe
Has Iran agreed to ‘anywhere, anytime’ inspections, an end to R&D on
faster centrifuges, and the dismantling of its key nuclear sites? No,
no, and no
By David Horovitz,
Times of Israel, July 15, 2014
The agreement legitimizes Iran’s nuclear program, allows
it to retain core nuclear facilities, permits it to continue research in
areas that will dramatically speed its breakout to the bomb should it
choose to flout the deal, but also enables it to wait out those
restrictions and proceed to become a nuclear threshold state with full
international legitimacy. Here’s how.
1. Was the Iranian regime required, as a condition for this deal, to
disclose the previous military dimensions of its nuclear program — to
come clean on its violations — in order both to ensure effective
inspections of all relevant facilities and to shatter the
Iranian-dispelled myth that it has never breached its non-proliferation
obligations? No. (This failure, arguably the original sin of the Western
negotiating approach, is expertly detailed here by Emily B. Landau.) Rather than exposing Iran’s violations, the new deal
solemnly asserts that the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran
has failed to honor “remains the cornerstone” of ongoing efforts to
prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The deal provides for a mechanism
“to address past and present issues of concern relating to its nuclear
programme,” but Iran has managed to dodge such efforts for years, and
the deal inspires little hope of change in that area, blithely
anticipating “closing the issue” in the next few months.
2. Has the Iranian regime been required
to halt all uranium enrichment, including thousands of centrifuges
spinning at its main Natanz enrichment facility? No. The deal
specifically legitimizes enrichment under certain eroding limitations.
3. Has the Iranian regime been required to shut down and dismantle
its Arak heavy water reactor and plutonium production plant? No. It will
convert, not dismantle the facility, under a highly complex process.
Even if it honors this clause, its commitment to “no additional heavy
water reactors or accumulation of heavy water in Iran” will expire after
15 years.
4. Has the Iranian regime been required to shut down and dismantle
the underground uranium enrichment facility it built secretly at Fordow?
No. (Convert, not dismantle.)
5. Has the Iranian regime been required to halt its ongoing missile development? No.
6. Has the Iranian regime been required
to halt research and development of the faster centrifuges that will
enable it to break out to the bomb far more rapidly than is currently
the case? No. The deal specifically legitimizes ongoing R&D under
certain eroding limitations. It specifically provides, for instance,
that Iran will commence testing of the fast “IR-8 on single centrifuge
machines and its intermediate cascades” as soon as the deal goes into
effect, and will “commence testing of up to 30 IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges
after eight and a half years.”
7. Has the Iranian regime been required to submit to “anywhere,
anytime” inspections of any and all facilities suspected of engaging in
rogue nuclear-related activity? No. Instead, the deal describes at
considerable length a very protracted process of advance warning and
“consultation” to resolve concerns.
8. Has the international community established procedures setting out
how it will respond to different classes of Iranian violations, to
ensure that the international community can act with sufficient speed
and efficiency to thwart a breakout to the bomb? No.
9. Has the Iranian regime been required to halt its arming, financing
and training of the Hezbollah terrorist army in south Lebanon? No.
(This kind of non-nuclear issue was not discussed at the negotiations.)
10. Has the Iranian regime been
required to surrender for trial the members of its leadership placed on
an Interpol watch list for their alleged involvement in the bombing, by a
Hezbollah suicide bomber, of the AMIA Jewish community center offices
in Buenos Aires in 1994 that resulted in the deaths of 85 people? No.
(This kind of non-nuclear issue was not discussed at the negotiations.)
11. Has the Iranian regime undertaken to close its 80 estimated
“cultural centers” in South America from which it allegedly fosters
terrorist networks? No. (This kind of non-nuclear issue was not
discussed at the negotiations.)
12. Has the Iranian
leadership agreed to stop inciting hatred among its people against
Israel and the United States and to stop its relentless calls for the
annihilation of Israel? No. (This kind of non-nuclear issue was not
discussed at the negotiations.)
13. Has the Iranian regime agreed to halt executions, currently
running at an average of some three a day, the highest rate for 20
years? No. (This kind of non-nuclear issue was not discussed at the
negotiations.)
14. Does the nuclear deal shatter the painstakingly constructed sanctions regime that forced Iran to the negotiating table? Yes.
15. Will the deal usher in a new era of global commercial interaction
with Iran, reviving the Iranian economy and releasing financial
resources that Iran will use to bolster its military forces and
terrorist networks? Yes.
16. Does the nuclear deal further cement Iran’s repressive and ideologically rapacious regime in power? Yes.
No wonder Iran and its allies are celebrating. Nobody else should be.
Source
