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Real Purpose of the Nuclear Deal: Support Iran & Stick It to Israel
Ira Brodsky
The purpose of the Iran nuclear deal isn’t to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons technology – it’s to assist Iran and prevent an Israeli military attack. The deal promises to help Iran modernize and protect its nuclear program while making it harder for Israel to disrupt the program through military means or sabotage.
This isn’t a “bad deal,” as many keep saying — it’s a dramatic shift in U.S. policy in favor of totalitarian Iran at the expense of democratic Israel. Leftists love authoritarian regimes that are virulently anti-American.
Far from restraining Iran, the deal cooked up by Barack Obama, John Kerry, and the U.S. negotiating team may be everything the ayatollah could have wished for. By the White House’s own admission, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action merely extends Iran’s “breakout time” to a bomb from the current 2-3 months to at least 12 months. However, that’s assuming that Iran does not cheat.
The deal creates real obstacles to an Israeli military strike. After months of arduous negotiations, any Israeli military strike against Iran now would be seen as an act in defiance of the so-called P5+1 nations: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany. Israel would be condemned as a rogue state while Iran would be praised for cooperating. At a minimum, the P5+1 nations would respond to an attack by helping Iran rebuild and by considering retaliatory sanctions against Israel.
Clearly, the Iran nuclear deal’s architects trust Iran. The deal calls for the P5+1 to help Iran modernize its nuclear facilities, improve its processes and procedures, and train its personnel. For example, Annex I specifies the creation of a working group to help Iran redesign and rebuild the Arak reactor and “subsidiary laboratories.” This will no doubt require P5+1 scientists and technicians to make frequent visits and even work onsite for extended periods, another element of the deal that will deter Israel from attacking. In fact, the deal practically transforms Iran’s rogue nuclear program into a joint development project.
The Iran nuclear deal also calls for helping Iran enhance its nuclear research and development capabilities and defend its nuclear program against security threats such as sabotage. This includes helping to train what could be the next generation of Iranian nuclear experts.
Section 10.2 of Annex III could not be more explicit:
Co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems.
Clearly, the Iran nuclear deal’s architects do not trust Israel.
Why they support Iran
To understand how a U.S. administration could engineer a nuclear deal that rewards Iran and punishes Israel, it helps to understand the mindset of arms control experts. Most identify themselves as progressives. They tend to believe that all wars are avoidable: you just need really smart leaders who are sympathetic to the other side’s grievances, are willing to consider any compromise, and believe that the right words on paper can turn any foreign adversary into an ally.
Likewise, many arms control experts believe that Iran – the very same country that supports terrorism, denies the Holocaust, intervenes in other nations through armed proxies, and leads crowds in chants of “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” – can be enticed by the right deal to rejoin the community nations.
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