Obama’s SOTU Claims on Iran Debunked Same Day at Congressional Hearings; Iran Agreement Text Being Withheld.(AndrewBostom).
Just hours before President Obama delivered his
State of the Union address (1/28/14), which included remarks (analyzed here)
lauding how the P5 +1 agreement “halted” Iran’s nuclear weapons development
program, a joint Congressional
hearing demonstrated otherwise.
Gregory S. Jones, a Senior Researcher at the
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center testified that “the great flaw in the deal”
was “it permits Iran to retain centrifuge enrichment.” He added, pointedly,
This fact has been denied by Secretary of State Kerry but the
Joint Plan of Action says in two separate places that the follow-on
Comprehensive Solution would “involve a mutually defined enrichment programme….” Note that the text says “would,” not “might” or “could.” That the Comprehensive
Solution will permit Iranian centrifuge enrichment was later confirmed by the
Obama administration national security spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan who said, “We are prepared to
negotiate a strictly limited enrichment program.”
Jones’ written testimony concluded,
The only reasonable negotiating position is
for the U.S. and the P5+1 to insist that Iran stops all uranium enrichment and
dismantles its centrifuge enrichment facilities. President Obama and others have
recognized that this would be the best outcome from the negotiations with Iran
but have said that it is an unrealistic demand since Iran would never
agree.
The hearings also revealed that the White House
was refusing to release the full written text of the agreement with Iran. House
Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) member Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R., Fla.) complained,Hmmm....A Turkish Bazaar backroom deal, Obama knows the Iranians will build the bomb and he lets them!Read the full story here.
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