The news from the nuclear talks with Iran was already troubling. Iran was being granted the "right to enrich." It would be allowed to retain and spin thousands of centrifuges. It could continue construction of the Arak plutonium reactor.
Yet so thoroughly was Iran stonewalling International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors that just last Thursday the IAEA reported its concern "about the possible existence in Iran of undisclosed . . . development of a nuclear payload for a missile."
Bad enough. Then it got worse: News leaked Monday of the "sunset clause." President Obama had accepted Iran's demand that any restrictions on its program be time-limited. After which, the mullahs can crank up their nuclear program at will and make as much enriched uranium as they want.
Sanctions lifted. Restrictions gone. Nuclear development legitimized. Iran would re-enter the international community, as Obama suggested last December, as "a very successful regional power." A few years — probably around 10 — of good behavior and Iran would be home free.
The deal thus would provide a predictable path to an Iranian bomb — a flourishing path, with trade resumed, oil pumping and foreign investment pouring into a restored economy.
Meanwhile, Iran's intercontinental ballistic missile program is subject to no restrictions at all. It's not even part of these negotiations.Read the rest of the op-ed HERE.
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