NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – May 23, 2015 – Here’s President Obama on his nuclear negotiations with Iran: “Look, 20 years from now, I’m still going to be around, God willing. If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it’s my name on this.”
So, he says to his nation, you can trust him not to sign a bad deal as the June 30 deadline for finalizing one looms.
And here’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “The impudent and brazen enemy expects that we allow them talk to our scientists and researchers about a fundamental local achievement, but no such permission will be allowed. No inspection of any military site or interview with nuclear scientists will be allowed.”
So, he says to his nation, trust him that he will not only cheat but enshrine his right to cheat on any restraints on that nuclear weapon program.
We trust the ayatollah who has long proven his commitment to apocalyptic weaponry.
Obama, by contrast, has only his word that he and future administrations will be able to detect Iran’s inevitable cheating, to then “snap back” economic sanctions and to count on those sanctions to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Whistling past the graveyard, Obama ignores the coming arms race in the Middle East, particularly with Saudi Arabia. He insists “there has been no indication from the Saudis . . . that they have an intention to pursue their own nuclear program.”
Really? Saudi princes say publicly “we will get nuclear weapons” if Iran proceeds toward a bomb. Pakistan could provide one off the shelf.
Thankfully, the Senate won the right, over a threatened presidential veto, to review any terms Obama does strike with a state that speaks openly of destroying Israel and America with nuclear weapons, has a record of illegal nuclear activity and is refusing to come clean about it or to submit to unconditional inspections.
There will be no trust.