So here it is. The Iranian deal is a shit sandwich so have a big bite, America.
It’s either this or war.
That’s the argument the White House is preparing to make to convince members of Congress, Americans and foreign allies that the framework announced Thursday is the best way to check Iran’s nuclear program.
Obama has capitulated to Iran. Period.
President Obama defended his administration’s “historic” nuclear deal with Iran Saturday, telling Americans that the diplomatic agreement will be more effective than a bombing campaign in preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.
“This framework is the result of tough, principled diplomacy,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly address. “It’s a good deal—a deal that meets our core objectives, including strict limitations on Iran’s program and cutting off every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon.”
We don’t know that at all.
President Obama has agreed to a basic framework of a deal with Iran that is supposed to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. What details it may contain we don’t yet know, and the president is apparently determined to see that neither we nor Congress will. That is unacceptable to the American people because the agreement will have a significant effect on America’s national security and that of our Middle Eastern allies.
Mr. Obama has made it clear that the agreement will not be submitted to the Senate for ratification as Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution requires. There are only three instances in which a president can execute an international agreement that does not need senate ratification. According to the Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, an executive agreement doesn’t need ratification when it is made pursuant to an earlier treaty, pursuant to an act of Congress or when it is within the president’s inherent powers. None of those three conditions pertain to the nascent Iran nuclear weapons agreement.
The president seeks an agreement that will, by all reports, allow Iran to continue to enrich uranium and not mandate international inspectors’ unlimited access to Iran’s nuclear development sites. Iran’s consistent behavior — by refusing to allow inspections at some disclosed locations, by keeping nuclear development sites secret and by cleaning up evidence of nuclear development before inspectors arrive — proves they will cheat on any agreement they sign.
All we have is Obama’s word and his word isn’t worth a goddam thing. On the other hand, the Iranians are thrilled:
In a public address on the state-run TV on Friday, President Rouhani reminded his election campaign slogan that he would keep Iran’s nuclear industry running and remove the sanctions against the country, and said the Iranian nation is now closer to this goal more than ever.
He said his administration had a four-step plan, which included the attainment of an interim deal, “and after months of efforts, specially during the last few days, the second objective was also materialized last night”.
“In this second step, we have both maintenance of nuclear rights and removal of sanctions alongside constructive interaction with the world,” the president continued.
He further described attainment of a final deal as a third step before the July 1 deadline to be followed by a fourth step which would be its implementation.
“The Group 5+1 (the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany) has accepted in the framework understanding attained on Thursday night that Iran will have domestic enrichment on its soil; and this means that those who stated that Iran’s enrichment is a threat to the region and the world have admitted today that enrichment in Iran is no threat to anyone,” said President Rouhani.
“I, hereby, declare in a straightforward manner now that enrichment and all nuclear-related technologies are only aimed at Iran’s development and will not be used against any other countries and the world has acknowledged very well today that Iran is seeking peaceful purposes,” he added.
He said Arak Heavy Water Reactor will continue its operation with the help of the most modern technologies and “Fordo (uranium enrichment plant) will remain operational forever with 1,000 centrifuges installed in there and nuclear and physics-related activities and technologies will run there”.
“On the basis of this framework, all sanctions in financial, economic and banking sectors as well as all (UN Security Council) sanctions resolutions against Iran will be canceled on the very first day of the implementation of the deal, and new cooperation in both nuclear and other sectors will start with the world on the same day,” the Iranian President reiterated.
The deal falls way short of the principles Obama espoused.
THE “KEY parameters” for an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program released Thursday fall well short of the goals originally set by the Obama administration. None of Iran’s nuclear facilities — including the Fordow center buried under a mountain — will be closed. Not one of the country’s 19,000 centrifuges will be dismantled. Tehran’s existing stockpile of enriched uranium will be “reduced” but not necessarily shipped out of the country. In effect, Iran’s nuclear infrastructure will remain intact, though some of it will be mothballed for 10 years. When the accord lapses, the Islamic republic will instantly become a threshold nuclear state.
That’s a long way from the standard set by President Obama in 2012 when he declared that “the deal we’ll accept” with Iran “is that they end their nuclear program” and “abide by the U.N. resolutions that have been in place.” Those resolutions call for Iran to suspend the enrichment of uranium. Instead, under the agreement announced Thursday, enrichment will continue with 5,000 centrifuges for a decade, and all restraints on it will end in 15 years.
It’s clear Obama has capitulated, but no one ought to be surprised. DrJohn’s Law. All he’s doing here is sweeping the problem under the rug, getting it out of the way until he’s long out of office. That way, liberals who have zero long term memory will fault whoever is in office at the time instead of the actual perpetrator.
The worst part is that there is no deal. Not yet. The Obama regime has indicated that there could be a limit on how much of the deal is made public.
We have to pass it to find out what’s in it. Where have I heard that before?
Obama is ceding Iran dominance in the Middle East. He speaks of this deal being better than a war.
Where was the deal in Libya? Why wasn’t making a deal better than a war there? Libya now is a safe haven for ISIS.
Barack Obama is turning the Middle East completely to hell. His “deal” is a failure by his own standards. He needs to find some balls. Somewhere.
Barack Obama: won’t negotiate with conservatives, capitulates to Islamists.
And they call Tom Cotton a traitor.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
@Greg:
What do you think it would take most of us to ignore Obama apologists? At least Bush wasn’t a traitor to his country and didn’t actually do all he could do to destroy the US Military services and the country. And Bush wasn’t/isn’t a Muslim. And Bush is an American citizen.
other than that……….
@bernard louis liberto:
Deeply flawed, deeply wrong, deeply ungrammatical, deeply stupid, deeply psychiatric.
It is in other words, the ravings of an obviously unhinged psychiatric patient.