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Robert Spencer in the Washington Times: Six shocking details from the Iran nuke deal

Jul 13, 2016 11:57 am By Robert Spencer

In the Washington Times, I explain why the Iran nuclear deal is much worse than most people realize:

Zarif with agreement

Most Americans know that Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran is bad, but few are aware that it’s this bad. I explain why fully in my book “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran” — and here are some of the deal’s very worst aspects:

1. The expiration dates: While the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the agreement is called, does include real restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities, these are all slated to expire within a period of years. The agreement anticipates the “conclusion of consideration of the Iran nuclear issue by the U.N. Security Council 10 years after the Adoption Day” — that is, the adoption of the agreement itself on July 14, 2015. It contains stipulations such as this: “There will be no additional heavy water reactors or accumulation of heavy water in Iran for 15 years.” What about after that? The agreement doesn’t say. Apparently, at that point anything goes.

2. The delay in inspections: The day after the conclusion of the JCPOA, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu observed: “Iran has two paths to the bomb: One if they keep the deal, the other if they cheat on the deal.” They can get the bomb even if they keep the deal because the JCPOA contains the provision that Iran can delay requested International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections for up to 24 days — ample time to clean up for the inspectors.

3. The removal of sanctions: Even before the deal, it was questionable how effective the economic sanctions that the United States and U.N. had placed upon Iran really were: In March 2015, Thomas Erdbrink, Tehran bureau chief of The New York Times and longtime resident of Iran, remarked, “As the politicians are talking for months to end the sanctions, my shopkeeper tells me he has more foreign products for sale than ever.”

Nonetheless, the JCPOA is quite definite about removing all economic sanctions on Iran. This included the removal of sanctions that had originally been intended to be removed only when Iran definitively gave up its nuclear program; now the Islamic Republic was being given sanctions relief and allowed to continue its nuclear program, only with certain restrictions that would all eventually expire anyway.

4. The lack of any consequences for breaking the agreement: The 159-page Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action goes into tremendous detail about the Iranian nuclear program and how it is to be temporarily restricted in various ways. It also expatiates at length on exactly which sanctions are to be removed. But it is conspicuously lacking in specifying penalties for Iran’s not holding to the agreement. There is vague talk about the sanctions being reimposed — but once money held in the sanctions is given to Iran, it cannot be recovered.

5. Americans will not be allowed to inspect Iran’s nuclear sites: On July 30, 2015, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi pointed out, “American and Canadian inspectors cannot be sent to Iran. It is mentioned in the deal that inspectors should be from countries that have diplomatic relations with Islamic Republic of Iran.” IAEA inspectors, he added, would not be given access to “sensitive and military documents.”

In an interview with Al Jazeera the following day, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, further broadened these restrictions to apply to other signatories to the deal as well: “Regardless of how the P5+1 countries interpret the nuclear agreement, their entry into our military sites is absolutely forbidden.”

Who, then, will be inspecting Iran’s nuclear sites? Why, Iran itself.

6. Iran can inspect its own sites: On Aug. 19, 2015, the Associated Press dropped a bombshell. Confirming rumors that had circulated since the agreement was signed, it reported that a secret side deal between the IAEA and Iran allowed the Iranians to conduct their own inspections of their own sites:

“Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work.”

What could possibly go wrong?

These terms are almost absurdly easy on Iran. In the unlikely very worst case scenario for the Iranians, they may possibly find themselves in just as bad a position as they were before the JCPOA. What exactly is the rest of the world getting out of this agreement? Only a newly flush and increasingly bellicose Iran, possibly soon threatening the world with nuclear arms.

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  1. Judi says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 12:09 pm

    Frightening scenario. In actual fact they are holding the whole world to ransom. Countries are walking on eggshells so as not to offend them.

  2. Mong says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 12:22 pm

    For crying out loud, these guys are dripping with dirge. Can’t anyone see what’s around the corner? Obama must have eyes up his arse to miss this one. What a load of special nonsense! We need new leaders who can put men in the proper cupboard of control to save our nation and the free planet xxx

  3. Morton Doodslag says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 12:23 pm

    Glad to see Robert Spencer reach a wider audience, finally. I hope President Trump has Spencer running training sessions to FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. explaining why Islam = genocide. Muslim = terrorism

    • Polk1970 says

      Jul 13, 2016 at 10:07 pm

      FIRST HE MUST WIN
      Then Housecleaning Time

    • Andrew says

      Jul 13, 2016 at 11:26 pm

      As an Australian, could not agree more. What happens over there… is going to effect us all. There has been enough lies and appeasement.
      I just hope Trump is up for the house cleaning. Might be more like a major renovations.

  4. DogOnPorch says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Iran’s ICBM program should be all the confirmation anyone in the government needs as to Iran’s desire for a working Nuclear weapon. With circular error probabilities (CEP) of over 2km on these rockets, only a large (100kt +) nuclear warhead makes any sense.

    • SteveFinSC says

      Jul 13, 2016 at 4:05 pm

      The thing is, the Iranians apparently don’t plan to drop nukes on us. They’ve been practicing launching missiles that explode at a preset altitude – one that corresponds exactly to the correct altitude for an EMP weapon. The North Koreans – who are known collaborators with the Iranians – recently tested a device underground which is believed to be an EMP device. Was that really the Iranian’s test? The Iranians are also making friends with the Venezuelan regime to our south. Could they bring said EMP bomb-laden missiles to that country as the Soviets did with IRBMs in Cuba? Does the CIA even monitor what’s going on in the jungles down there? Could they see the missile base being built in the jungle even if they were looking? An effective EMP attack on the US would wipe out our electrical grid completely. Nothing with a computer microchip in it would work – That’s everything from your PC to your car to your cell phone to your wrist watch. With no transportation, most of our population would die from starvation since all our food is grown 100s of miles from most of our people who live in cities. We’d be plunged into chaos within hours. It’s a far better strategy for them than nuking NY. More death for the buck as it were. Of course, we’d nuke them since our military has EMP-hardened equipment, but as Robert Spencer has explained elsewhere, the Iranian leadership is probably all right with that.

      • Wellington says

        Jul 13, 2016 at 5:26 pm

        Chilling what you wrote but only fools would ignore what you wrote. Problem is that there are many, many fools presently in the West, most troubling being those who are now in charge of running things, for instance the doofus presently occupying the Oval Office and the new PM of the UK who could make one look positively upon Neville Chamberlain.

        Islam is iniquitous and the West is now led by fools. As awful as iniquity is, I would argue that foolhardiness is even worse. Sure have plenty of both right now.

        Ah, mankind never learns. Mark Twain was right. Our species is pathetic.

      • DogOnPorch says

        Jul 13, 2016 at 6:09 pm

        EMP events like Starfish Prime have been a threat for decades. The old way would have been several EMP bursts over a region followed by the Hard Rain.

        Yes, Iran could be quite the pr**ks and do such a thing. If they would survive is up for debate. One volley from an Ohio Class SSBN and it’s lights-out.

  5. Carmel says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    And what does a deal worth in islamic world ? They sign whatever you want and after that when they are powerful enough , the deal is no more valid, the paper is torn . The only way to make islam countries respect deals is to keep them weak economically , militarily and politicaly.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 12:54 pm

    The worthless promises and empty words made by the officials who are the stooges of the mullahs and ayatollahs and other tyrants who head this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran concerning the nuclear “deal arrangement ” will only result in those In power in Iran more easily obtained the materials they need to have their scientists construct weapon s of mass destruction . For this fits in with the hate-filled and irrational mad Islamic quest of both the mullahs and ayatollahs of Iran. Furthermore, it was reported on CBN on 5/7/16 only two days before this CBN report the Iran not only launched other “test firing” of missile. The “test firing” of that missile and it even had printed on that missile words in Hebrew that read “Israel must be wiped off the map.” This along exposes the vicious and destructive intention of the mullahs and others in power in this Islamic rogue state of Iran. There were other “test firing of other missiles by earlier this very year by the Islamic tyranny of Iran. This shows the gall and defiance of those mullahs and ayatollahs along those other Muslim villains in power in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran their total arrogant contempt for the US and the other Western nations in this so called “deal.” Those Muslim clerics and other Muslim tyrants in power in this cruel and oppressive Islamic tyranny are, in character, reflected in the Bible in Psalm 73:6-9. Which reads, “Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their mind know limits. They scoff and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.” [N.I.V.]

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 1:01 pm

    The naive foolish and gullible politicians of the West , as Obama and Kerry, have fallen for lying deception of the mullahs and other in powers in Iran in this so called “nuclear deal.” What blindness of the politicians of the .West. What folly and ignorance those Western politicians have ! Moreover, this heinous Islamic regime of Iran is even false in its name. For it has the title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran.” It is Islamic for sure, but its falsely called a “republic.” This is because a real Republic comes from the Latin word; res-publica meaning “The property of the people” This is one thing that this brutal and harsh Islamic tyranny is not. For the mullahs and ayatollahs who have the strong and terrible power in this Islamic have much control. Even the Iranian parliament is much influenced by those ruling Muslim clerics. Those mullahs and ayatollahs of this Islamic dictatorship come down very hard on the human rights of the Iranian people through their ruthless gang of thugs who are called “The Republican Guard.” Furthermore, this hideous type of hard and oppressive tyranny is taught about in the Bible .For in Ecclesiastes 4 :1 in teaches about “the tears of the oppressed.” and about all the power being “on the side of the oppressors.” Likewise, in that same Bible book in 5:8 it informs the reader not to be naïve about such awful wickedness. For it teaches “If you see the poor oppressed…and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things.” Moreover in Proverbs 15:15 it also teaches “All the days of the oppressed are wretched…” In addition, the Iranian president, Rouhani and ayatollah Khamenei may be described in Proverbs 28:15 which reads “Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked man ruling over a helpless people.” In short, the brutal and vicious Islamic regime of those two characters, just mention, as well as the other mullahs , ayatollahs and other Muslim tyrants who have such harsh and brutal control with their terrible oppression over the lives of the Iranian people , Proverbs 29:2 is thus very appropriate . For it teaches “When the wicked rule, the people groan. “ [N.I.V.]

  8. Guest says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 1:49 pm

    I can put the nuke deal into four simple words, “We have been screwed!”

  9. brane pilot says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 2:45 pm

    It is called Treason. Nothing new in the USA. We have been governed by Traitors since Clinton.

    • Peggy says

      Jul 13, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      No doubt. People are waking up.

  10. UriahB says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 3:19 pm

    Its getting so I can’t read this stuff anymore. The hens r guarding the coop. Oh bomb ah is so interested in a legacy, he doesn’t realize what its gonna be. If Hell a ry is elected ill take ginzburgs seat to new zealand.

  11. Angemon says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    Six shocking details from the Iran nuke deal

    That the Obama administration tried to sweep under the rug.

  12. Wellington says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 5:14 pm

    In reading what Robert Spencer has written, I recalled what Ann Coulter asserted years ago and that is that liberals are idiots or traitors and when it comes to matters of national security the difference is irrelevant.

  13. Lynn in Florida says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    The 10 year term of the treaty is significant. Muhammad signed the Treaty of Hudaibiyya with the Quraysh tribe of Mecca promising peace between Mecca and Medina for 10 years. As soon as he had enough soldiers, he attacked and conquered Mecca. From this story, it is considered OK for Muslims to enter into treaties with infidels for a term of up to 10 years but only when they are weak. As soon as they are strong enough, they have the right to abrogate the treaty. I assume that the Iranians will abrogate the treaty as soon as they have sufficient nuclear bombs and missiles.

  14. billybob says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    What exactly is the rest of the world getting out of this agreement? – Robert asks. Well, “the world” isn’t getting anything good out of the deal, but many multinational corporations will make a handsome profit for themselves, selling into Iran’s pent up demand.

    This deal couldn’t have come at a worst moment. I recall watching Iran daily in the news before the the “nuclear deal” became the focus of the press. The value of their currency was dropping precipitously every day as the price of oil dropped and Iran was left behind. It was a joy to read how very dire the situation was. There was real danger of civil insurrection as people couldn’t even afford basic commodities anymore. Iran was forced to curtail support for their various terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.

    If only the pressure had been kept up, we may have seen a revolution in Iran. Of course it was worrisome, because it was estimated the Iran was only 6 months away from the bomb at that point. However, with the help of ready and willing ally Israel and a few MOB bunker busters we could set their program back at least a decade.

    What have we got now? We have provided Iran with the blessing of sudden prosperity. They will certainly take good advantage of that to reestablish their power in the region and continue their missile programs full speed ahead and also their nuclear development deep down in those bunkers under the mountains where the sun never shines.

  15. Custos Custodum says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    Remember that at Univ. of Chicago, Obama was best buddies with Palestinian propagandist Rashid Khalidi (now a prof at Columbia).

    Obama’s speech at a send-off dinner for Khalidi is still being kept under wraps by the lackeys at the LA Times.

    Exile politicians like Khalidi are particularly apt to indulge in annihilationist fantasies. No doubt during their sociable evenings together Barry and Rashid joshed about physically wiping out Israel and its [insert epithet for Jews] to create a “pure” Palestine.

    In fact, of course, neighboring countries (Jordan, Egypt, neo-Ottoman Turkey, Saudi Arabia, even Iran) would not allow an independent “Palestine” to exist for even five minutes.

  16. gravenimage says

    Jul 13, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    Thanks for the additional grim information.

  17. linnte says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 3:11 pm

    Can’t wait to read the book. Or, maybe I can! Such scary stuff. And the twisted profoundly demonic logic of Islam makes it clear and simple that they could wish for nuclear attacks.

  18. Manuele says

    Jul 16, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    DEMOCRATS’ ROT IS FROM THE CORE. ALL OF . BARACK OBAMA, JOHN KERRY, JOE BIDEN, HILARY CLINTON AND THE REST OF THEM ALL. ROTTEN, ROTTEN, ROTTEN.

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