Monday, April 6, 2015

Without A Deal, Obama Announces Nuclear Pact With Iran

Iran: The Obama administration will negotiate forever, give away the store, even time a political enemy's indictment, in pursuit of a bad nuclear deal. Israel, on the other hand, reiterates that the military option remains.
There is no Iran deal yet, but on Thursday President Obama was speaking of a pact with Iran in the past tense, as if it already happened. He claims, "It has succeeded exactly as intended" — pretty much what he says about ObamaCare. Then, sounding like a PR man for Tehran, he said, "Iran has met all of its obligations."
John Kerry jokes around with British Foreign Secretary 
Philip Hammond, while U.S. EU High Representative for 
Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, 
and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif 
prepare for a press conference. AP
Secretary of State John Kerry trumpeted impressive-sounding numbers about this "foundation for a deal." Iran will cut "its stockpile of enriched uranium by 98% for 15 years," Kerry said. "Iran will cut its installed centrifuges by more than two-thirds for 10 years." If Tehran chooses to arm itself with nukes, the breakout time will be a year, "as much as six times what it is today, and what it has been for the past three years."
Obama claimed — again possessing no real agreement — that it was "the best possible defense against Iran's ability to pursue a nuclear weapon covertly," with international inspections of everything "from uranium mills that provide the raw materials to the centrifuge production and storage facilities that support the program."
Just in case others might disagree, the administration is trying to muzzle one of its chief critics.
The timing of the multiple federal charges against New Jersey's Robert Menendez, until recently chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the leader of opposition within the Democratic Party to Obama's appeasement of Iran, is just too good.
Menendez may well be guilty of nearly $1 million in bribes for political favors, but the Justice Department has been looking into this matter for years. It is just too coincidental — and the smile that must be on the president's face too wide — for it to come just as the Iran negotiations he opposes reach a preliminary climax. Menendez on Thursday pleaded innocent.
Read the rest of this IBD Editorial HERE.

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