{"id":19678,"date":"2015-12-23T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/19678-washington-times-the-early-returns-on-obama-s-iran-deal"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:05:21","slug":"washington-times-the-early-returns-on-obama-s-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/washington-times-the-early-returns-on-obama-s-iran-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Times: The early returns on Obama\u2019s Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The mullahs didn\u2019t wait long to demonstrate chicanery and deceit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington Times<\/strong>
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
By Clifford D. May<\/p>\n

Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opened a hearing last week with these candid, if not immortal, words: \u201cI think the agreement is off to a really terrible start.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agreement in question is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). It is to provide more than $100 billion in unfrozen assets to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world\u2019s leading sponsor of terrorism. In exchange, Tehran is supposed to halt a nuclear weapons program whose existence it has consistently denied.<\/p>\n

More on that in a moment but first, this point: A deal so consequential ought to have been framed as a treaty. But treaties require congressional advice and consent. President Obama was uninterested in the former and unwilling even to try for the latter.<\/p>\n

Initially, the deal Mr. Obama cut was termed an \u201cexecutive agreement.\u201d But in a Nov. 17 letter responding to a query from Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas, the State Department revealed that the plan of action does not fall into that category either. In fact, it\u2019s not even a \u201csigned document.\u201d It merely \u201creflects political commitments\u201d \u2014 commitments that are not \u201clegally binding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why make enormous concessions in exchange for anything so fuzzy? Said the State Department to Mr. Pompeo: \u201cThe success of the JCPOA will depend not on whether it is legally binding or signed, but rather on the extensive verification measures we have put in place, as well as Iran\u2019s understanding that we have the capacity to re-impose \u2014 and ramp up \u2014 our sanctions if Iran does not meet its commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n

In case you missed it: Both those claims have since been tested.<\/p>\n

Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ended its investigation into the \u201cpossible military dimensions\u201d of Iran\u2019s nuclear programs \u2014 its attempt to verify whether Iranian officials have been telling the truth when they\u2019ve claimed they\u2019ve never had a secret program to develop nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

No surprise: Iranian officials have been lying. Iran did indeed conduct nuclear-weapons research \u2014 a lot of it prior to 2003 (when the United States invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein) and some as late as 2009.<\/p>\n

In fact, the IAEA found that \u201cIran\u2019s clandestine nuclear activities represented a parallel nuclear program (from mining to uranium conversion and enrichment) carried out alongside its declared one,\u201d according to Olli Heinonen, former IAEA deputy director general and head of its Department of Safeguards.<\/p>\n

True, the inspectors found no evidence of weaponization work after 2009 but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Not finding much doesn\u2019t mean much given the fact that Iranian officials have \u201crefused to come clean,\u201d as Mr. Heinonen phrased it. And Iran coming clean is what Secretary of State John Kerry vowed last April \u201cwill be part of a final agreement. It has to be.\u201d Well, Mr. Kerry, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

I was surprised by how many journalists chose not to report this. On the BBC\u2019s \u201cNewshour\u201d with Razia Iqbal, a correspondent from the BBC\u2019s Persian Service said not a word about Iran\u2019s now-proven nuclear deceptions. His sunny spin: The IAEA \u201cwill end investigations and look to the future \u2014 no more looking to the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

As to the future, this much is clear: The nuclear deal does not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In the words of my colleague, Mark Dubowitz, it \u201copens a patient path.\u201d If Tehran abides by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, it can have a massive nuclear weapons program 10 years or so after Mr. Obama leaves office.<\/p>\n

And consider what Iran\u2019s rulers are doing in the present: In October and November, they test-fired ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Not only does that ignore Iran\u2019s \u201cpolitical commitments,\u201d it\u2019s also a flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.<\/p>\n

The message, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan explained, is \u201cto tell the world that the Islamic Republic of Iran acts based on its national interests and no country or power can impose its will on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s rulers have been sending that message in other ways as well, e.g., launching cyber-attacks against the U.S. State Department; continuing to support their mass-murdering Syrian client, Bashar Assad, with both Iranian forces and those of Hezbollah, their Lebanon-based foreign legion; attempting to turn Yemen into a satellite; and keeping American citizens \u2014 including a Washington Post correspondent and a former U.S. Marine \u2014 imprisoned on trumped-up charges.<\/p>\n

Will Mr. Obama, in response, \u201cre-impose \u2014 and ramp up \u2014 our sanctions,\u201d as Mr. Pompeo was assured? No. At last week\u2019s hearing, Stephen Mull, the administration\u2019s coordinator for implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, revealed that sanctions may be lifted ahead of schedule, as early as next month.<\/p>\n

Some members of Congress, from both parties, are distressed. Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire has filed legislation to prohibit sanctions relief unless the administration can certify that Iran has \u201cverifiably ended all military dimensions of its nuclear program.\u201d Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has introduced the \u201cIRGC Sanctions Act,\u201d aimed at limiting the ability of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to fundraise and export terrorism. And a bill introduced by Republican Rep. Pete Roskam of Illinois would lower the threshold for the Treasury Department to designate IRGC-controlled entities.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be surprised if Mr. Obama does not oppose these measures \u2014 vetoing them if they pass or, more likely, arranging for filibusters to block votes in the Senate.<\/p>\n

So why should members of Congress try? For one, because that\u2019s their job. Second, such bills at least provide guideposts for whoever will occupy the White House next. Will the new president take the steps necessary to prevent the Islamic republic from acquiring the nuclear weapons it needs to further the jihad it has declared? I\u2019m doubtful. But I\u2019m always willing to be surprised.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a columnist for The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

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