Showing posts with label inspections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspections. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2015

Why the Iran Deal is Unacceptable

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                         

The goal of the Iran deal is to prevent every path to creating a nuclear weapon.  Kerry and  China, France, Russia, UK, USA and Germany, The Big 5+1,  have failed.  This plan doesn't include the requirements for a good deal.  

1. Inspectors have to have access to sites they suspect.  In this deal inspectors cannot inspect immediately when they get on site.  There is a 24 day approval process.   They now have time to remove any evidence of their violations and hide it.
                                                                             
2. Iran must explain its efforts to make weapons.  They haven't been honest on its nuclear building before the discussions.  IAEA hasn't publicized information-sharing agreement with Iran.  There are no consequences for Iran if IAEA finds problems.  They have threatened Israel often and have threatened many times to destroy it.  It's quite plain who they want to use their nukes on:  Israel and the USA.

3. Easing up sanctions should start ONLY after Iran complies with commitments.  This is obscene in that it provides immediate sanctions relief.  It takes the main leverage off Iran.  IAEA will verify that Iran has complied and immediately Iran will get up to $150 billion dollars.  That's more than George Soros and Trump have together!  Trump has about $12 billion,  Soros $24 billion!  All economic, financial and energy sanctions would disappear.  Then Iran would have all the money for terrorism, which it supplies now.  There are no consequences for violations.  Sanctions are not conditional on Iranian cooperation with IAEA.  To now restore sanctions that have been lifted, investments or contracts will not be affected that are already reached with Iran.  This is figured in "snapback" measures.
                                                                           
Bushehr nuclear site
4. Making nuclear weapons must be blocked for decades, not just 15 years and then all can go to hell.  It should never happen to our descendants.  This is a most dangerous deal because it legitimizes Iran's nuclear program and allows them to be a nuclear threshold state.  It starts to lift restrictions after 8 years and they get instant breakout time after 15 years. Heaven help the world then in 2030.
                                                                               
Arak Nuclear Site
5.  Iran MUST dismantle its nuclear factories so that it has no path to make nuclear weapons.  This deal leaves their infrastructure in place without being dismantled.  It changes their plans for the Arak heavy water reactor but there is no dismantlement of any other facility.
                                                                   
Left alone, after 15 years and restrictions lifted, Iran will be able to produce enough fuel for a nuclear bomb within DAYS.  That makes 2030, when babies are teenagers, a Holocaust set in motion.
                                                                             
Once Iran is a nuclear state, there is no way to stop them.  The world will have to acquiesce to Iran or use force to stop that outcome; 1 of 2 choices.  The Middle East will be less stable and this leads to a Middle East War World War III.
                                                                           
Arab Allies now fear Iran with nukes will be the dominant regional force.  More than 12 Arab states are interested in their own "peaceful nuclear program."  This is encouraging more nuclear countries in a very unstable region.  The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will be at an end. The race will be on like a Bon Marche basement sale.
                                                                           
Ayatollah Khamenei 
The Ayatollah and his circle  have big ambitions and cause terrorism by funding terrorists in Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Yemen.  They now look forward to their new funding, international legitimacy and extra arms after an embargo.  They can see  the end of the 15 year period when they will have even more influence and will be destroying  US interests.
                                                                               
Netanyahu's warning and what can happen in 2012, the meeting at UN when so many refused to attend
Their deal is not the deal promised to the US public originally.  The goals have not been met.  What kind of leader has the USA become?  How about its commitment to its allies other than the big 5+1 like Israel?  Now the USA has abandoned their own objectives and has damaged their credibility in the Middle East.

Resource:  AIPAC www.aipac.org.  July 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P5%2B1

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Iranian Deal Problems Can't Be Ignored

Nadene Goldfoot                                                             
Coming from Washington Post's opinion writer, Charles Krauthammer, is some interesting news we haven't heard before about the Iranian deal of Democrats Secretary of State  John Forbes Kerry and President Barack Hussein Obama.
                                                                           
There have been secret side agreements between Iran and the Atomic Energy Agency concerning past acts and inspections on the Parchin military facility where Iran might have been testing nuclear detonation devices. This administration doesn't have any expectations to learning what the secret agreements were, which should be of #1 in importance.  They speak as if this is expected standard practice and is okay.
                                                    

On Monday, August 3rd, Ali Akbar Velayati, head adviser to the Ayatollah which is a modern-day Haman position,  announced that, "Entry into our military sites is absolutely forbidden!"  Now, isn't that exactly what we need to do?  Especially there? 
  
Charles revealed that this could even allow Iran to do the selecting of soil samples from Parchin to the IAEA.  Iran has been seen bulldozing and sanitizing Parchin from up-to-date pictures by satellite cameras.  There are no real verification capabilities in this deal.    

UPdate: Deputy Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Iran will not allow American or Canadian inspectors of the UN nuclear watchdog to visit its nuclear facilities - only monitors from countries with which it has diplomatic relations. Neither would IAEA inspectors have access to "sensitive and military documents."                                          

It's up to the Democrats now in Congress to vote on this Iranian deal which is a mockery.  If the congressmen trust Iran and think they will change and turn into a country as fair and friendly as Canada, they will vote for it.  If they realize that they are who they are and will not change, and most likely will then be able to carry out their threats to destroy Israel with an atomic missile, they will vote against it.  
                                                  

One leading Democrat has already stated that he will not vote for it, and that is Senator Chuck Schumer, who is slated to replace retiring Senator Harry Reid as the Democrat leader.  He studied the deal for 3 weeks and listed his main concern was about inspecting anytime, anywhere inside the Iranian nuclear facilities.  He sees that in the first 10 years of the deal there are serious weaknesses in the agreement.  That 24 day delay to inspect is most bothersome and not appeased by Obama's explanation that uranium can be detected anytime.  That's only part of the problem.  Will these die-hard Democrats who follow Obama no matter what be vindictive and not accept Schumer now as head of the Democrats?  He's taking a chance to vote with his intelligence and not with his party, an attribute to be much admired in today's world.   
                                              
Netanyahu and Obama disagree about Iran deal.


However, siding with Obama is the group, J Street, who have placed ads on NBC for one, in 5 states saying that Israel backs the deal and they cite 3 Israelis in agreement. They say they are advocates of Israel, but I have never felt this from them.  Instead, I see them trying to control Israel to follow their set of ideas. Jeremy Ben-Ami is the leader, and funded and backed by George Soros, a multi-billionaire. In the USA they have become competitors of AIPAC, who back Israel.    J Street shows little  respect of Israel's Democratic rights.  

How does Israel feel about J Street's interferences?  The Israeli Embassy stated that Ambassador Michael Oren would not attend J Street's first national conference because J Street supports positions that may "impair" Israel's interest.   Oren has continued his criticism since the conference, telling Conservative rabbis meeting in Philadelphia that J Street "is a unique problem in that it not only opposes one policy of one Israeli government, it opposes all policies of all Israeli governments. It's significantly out of the mainstream."  Do you get it?  J Street doesn't know how Israel feels about anything and cares less.  It's all about how they feel that Israel should feel, and they are not living in Israel!  

 This ad is a farce, a lie,  since the majority of Israelis are as worried as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is about the deal and are not for it.  This is a deal with an outcome that most probably giving Iran the ability to harm Israel, and does not protect it.  Of course, first in harm's way is Israel and then it's the USA's turn.  
                                                    

Ahmadinejad's own comment: “Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury”.  

Iran has been threatening to destroy this tiny country and all in it.  Iran is one of the 3 large countries supplying terrorists such as Hezbollah and Hamas who in turn attack Israel.  They are not "with democratic values," they are against them.  

Resource: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/just-who-is-helping-irans-hard-liners/2015/08/06/45700fde-3c75-11e5-8e98-115a3cf7d7ae_story.html
Jack Rosen, American Jewish Congress on Schumer, JNi.Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJVAIhe57VI
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/06/429911872/in-iran-deal-fight-lobbyists-are-spending-millions-to-sway-12-senators
http://jstreet.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Candidly-Speaking-J-Street-is-not-a-pro-Israel-organization-328099
http://observer.com/2015/02/rabbi-shmuley-extracts-apology-from-j-streets-jeremy-ben-ami-on-cnn/
UPdate:    debka.com