Obama’s Iran deal greatest ’appeasement’ in history: John Bolton

The Hill – 04/17/2015 – Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton on Friday bashed President Obama as having putting a nuclear arms deal with Iran above America’s safety.
Bolton, who is considering a run for the White House in 2016, blasted Obama’s negotiations with Tehran as “feckless” and “weak.”
“President Obama is engaging in what I believe is the greatest display of appeasement from a president in history,” Bolton told listeners at the New Hampshire Republican Party’s “First in the Nation” leadership summit in Nashua.
“The Obama administration has taken a position weaker than the U.N. Security Council.”
Bolton accused Obama of a flawed foreign policy based on trusting Iran’s government and said Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, had frequently proven two-faced in the past.
 “They’re not going to give up a 30-year commitment to getting nuclear weapons,” Bolton said.
The ex-diplomat said he believes 2016 will be a crucial election in U.S. history, and urged voters to choose Obama’s successor wisely.
“You need someone who understands in his or her gut that the most important thing they do is protect the country,” Bolton said.
Obama this week agreed to sign a bill allowing Congress to review his tentative agreement with Iran before its June 30 final deadline. Lawmakers will receive 30 days to analyze the framework pact.
The potential agreement would lift economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for greater restrictions on its nuclear weapons research. Tehran has implied it will allow more frequent atomic inspections and caps on its centrifuge and uranium stockpiles as part of the deal.
Obama has long argued diplomacy is the only path, short of war, for preventing a nuclear Iran. Critics argue that Khamenei’s government has previously proven untrustworthy and that negotiations with his regime are futile.