{"id":19001,"date":"2015-08-26T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T09:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/nuclear\/19001-iran-nuke-deal-s-upside-down-logic-usa-today-column"},"modified":"2023-01-15T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T10:05:00","slug":"iran-nuke-deal-s-upside-down-logic-usa-today-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/iran-nuke-deal-s-upside-down-logic-usa-today-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran nuke deal&#8217;s upside-down logic: USA Today column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration&#8217;s nuclear deal with the Iranian regime will provoke a Middle Eastern arms race, American author Anne R. Pierce wrote on Tuesday in the USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When do peace plans make war more likely? When does respect for adversaries increase their disrespect for us? When does \u201cnon-proliferation\u201d lead to a build-up of arms? When does compromise become capitulation? When does diplomacy for the sake of peace enable aggressors, human rights violators and sponsors of terror instead of rein them in?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When our priorities and our principles and our rhetoric are upside down,&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/08\/25\/iran-deal-dangers-arms-race-column\/31858765\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\"> she wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pentagon-500\" class=\" size-full wp-image-43845\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/pentagon-500.jpg\" alt=\"pentagon-500\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pentagon-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pentagon-500-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nowhere is this upside-down dynamic more evident than in the deal that the United States and the P5+1 powers just forged with Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to President Obama, there are only two ways of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and preventing an arms race: this deal or war. Yet, those objecting to the deal believe it will make war and an arms race more likely. They predict that Iran will use the massive funds it will receive via sanctions relief to clandestinely perfect its nuclear program, to sponsor even more terror and to incite even more proxy wars. They believe that when Iran emerges from the temporary \u201csunshine period\u201d it will be in a better position to build a bomb than it is today under painful economic sanctions. They are alarmed by inadequate inspections, and by last-minute concessions regarding ballistic missiles and advanced weapons, concessions the administration promised not to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our president has accused Republicans of finding \u2018common cause\u2019 with Iranian hard-liners in opposition to this deal. Yet it is Congressional Republicans and some Congressional Democrats who question the administration\u2019s rapprochement with Iran\u2019s hard-line regime. They point to Iran&#8217;s sponsorship of terror, regional aggression, intractability and duplicity in negotiations, support of the brutal Assad regime, and crackdown on dissent. They speak out against the regime\u2019s vilification of Israel and the United States, and repression of women and minorities. They pushed for stronger sanctions so that the U.S. could negotiate with Iran from strength, and opposed the lifting of sanctions in exchange for promises rather than evidence of non-proliferation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Opponents see this deal as unnecessarily advantageous to Iran and, based on their celebrations and proclamations, Iranians do too. It unleashes more than $100 billions in frozen assets and lifts the arms embargo. U.N. inspectors must request written permission from Iran to inspect suspicious undeclared sites, and can be blocked from doing so for up to 24 days. U.S. inspectors, whose technological savvy is crucial, are not permitted to take part in inspections. Yet, Iran will receive American funding and technical assistance for its \u2018peaceful\u2019 nuclear program. Uranium enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordow, which are forbidden in multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions are now merely constrained (at Natanz) and delayed (at Fordow). Iran is given an 8-10 year roadmap for research and development on advanced centrifuges, \u2018after the initial 10-year period\u2019 increasing its ability to build a bomb. The idea that \u2018snapback\u2019 sanctions can be speedily enforced if Iran violates the deal has been dismissed by Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In introducing legislation that would prevent the implementation of the nuclear agreement, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce befittingly stated, &#8216;This deal gives up too much, too fast, to a terrorist state \u2014 making the world less safe, less secure and less stable&#8217;,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Anne R. Pierce is author of Woodrow Wilson &amp; Harry Truman: Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/18988-future-risks-of-an-iran-nuclear-deal-ny-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">Future risks of an Iran nuclear deal &#8211; NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/18993-hold-iran-s-regime-to-account-for-its-egregious-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">Hold Iran&#8217;s regime to account for its egregious behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/18976-a-bad-iran-deal-prof-ivan-sascha-sheehan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">A bad Iran deal &#8211; Prof. Ivan Sascha Sheehan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration&rsquo;s nuclear deal with the Iranian regime will provoke a Middle Eastern arms race, American author Anne R. 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