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Anything that let's them Do Nothing is Obama's style.
Is his failure on Iran worse than his Immigration one?
Kerry is a stuffed shirt enjoying his faux-relevance/importance as Secretary of State.
Iran on the Nuclear Edge
Official leaks suggest the U.S. is Making Ever More Concessions
Feb. 27, 2015 6:44 p.m. ET
WSJ
Iran on the Nuclear Edge - WSJ
Is his failure on Iran worse than his Immigration one?
Kerry is a stuffed shirt enjoying his faux-relevance/importance as Secretary of State.
Iran on the Nuclear Edge
Official leaks suggest the U.S. is Making Ever More Concessions
Feb. 27, 2015 6:44 p.m. ET
WSJ
Iran on the Nuclear Edge - WSJ
Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress this week that no one should pre-judge a nuclear deal with Iran because only the negotiators know what’s in it. But the truth is that the framework of an accord has been emerging thanks to Administration leaks to friendly journalists. The leaks suggest the U.S. has already given away so much that any deal on current terms will put Iran on the cusp of nuclear-power status. The latest Startling detail is Monday’s leak that the U.S. has conceded to Iran’s demand that an agreement would last as little as a decade, perhaps with an additional five-year phase-out. After that Iran would be allowed to build its uranium enrichment capabilities to whatever size it wants. In theory it would be forbidden from building nuclear weapons, but by then all sanctions would have long ago been lifted and Iran would have the capability to enrich on an industrial scale. On Wednesday Mr. Kerry denied that a deal would include the 10-year sunset, though he offered no details
The sunset clause fits the larger story of how far the U.S. and its allies have come to satisfy Iran’s demands. The Administration originally insisted that Iran should not be able to enrich uranium at all.
Later it mooted a symbolic enrichment capacity of perhaps 500 centrifuges.
Last July people close to the White House began talking about 3,000.
By October the Los Angeles Times reported that Mr. Kerry had raised the ceiling to 4,000.
Now it’s 6,000, and the Administration line is that the number doesn’t matter; only advanced centrifuges count. While quality does matter, quantity can have a quality all its own. The point is that Iran will be allowed to retain what amounts to a nuclear-weapons industrial capacity rather than dismantle all of it as the U.S. first demanded.
Mr. Kerry also says that any deal will have intrusive inspections, yet he has a habit of ignoring Iran’s noncompliance with agreements it has already signed. Last November he insisted that “Iran has lived up” to its commitments under the 2013 interim nuclear agreement.
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The sunset clause fits the larger story of how far the U.S. and its allies have come to satisfy Iran’s demands. The Administration originally insisted that Iran should not be able to enrich uranium at all.
Later it mooted a symbolic enrichment capacity of perhaps 500 centrifuges.
Last July people close to the White House began talking about 3,000.
By October the Los Angeles Times reported that Mr. Kerry had raised the ceiling to 4,000.
Now it’s 6,000, and the Administration line is that the number doesn’t matter; only advanced centrifuges count. While quality does matter, quantity can have a quality all its own. The point is that Iran will be allowed to retain what amounts to a nuclear-weapons industrial capacity rather than dismantle all of it as the U.S. first demanded.
Mr. Kerry also says that any deal will have intrusive inspections, yet he has a habit of ignoring Iran’s noncompliance with agreements it has already signed. Last November he insisted that “Iran has lived up” to its commitments under the 2013 interim nuclear agreement.
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