Opuscula Disaster if U.S. quits Nuke deal with Iran? Question: What deal?

SUSAN RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER to ex-president Barack Obama, argues that an American abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal could be disastrous.¹

Ms. Rice conveniently ignores the fact that Iran, like its Russian sponsor, signs agreements only to ignore the agreements’ conditions.

Just like the “Palestinian Authority” and the Oslo agreement.

AMONG OTHER THINGS, the Iran agreement called for unobstructed inspections of all Iranian nuclear sites.

That never happened.

Either the Iranians prevented inspectors from entering a site or they delayed access to the site until any evidence of Iran’s violations of the agreement were hidden.

Just like Russia.

When UN inspectors wanted to investigate the latest chemical attacks in Syria, Russia blocked the effort. It later said there could be an international investigative team, but as the team was being assembled, Russia reneged and blocked the investigators.

That, of course, begs the questions:

1. When did Russia become Syria’s government to allow or deny entry into the country?
2. Why should Russia CARE? The world already knows parts for the chemical containers came from Germany and that the containers were manufactured in Iran. Perhaps the chemicals in the containers could be traced back to Russia?

Iran at once boasts it can mate together enough nuclear bombs and ICBM delivery systems to destroy Israel and U.S. assets in the area while at the same time telling U.S. and European liberals that it isn’t working on such weaponry.

A Janis with a Persian face.²

Despite the reality on the ground, the Obama adviser still contends that "The nuclear agreement works. It distanced Iran from nuclear weapons and gives us the ability to verify and monitor Iran's obligations. If we destroy the agreement, and that is the meaning of American abandonment, it will first of all create a crisis of trust between us and our European partners," Rice said at the J Street decade conference.

Consider her audience: J Street.^{3, 4}

Rice added that "Abandoning the nuclear agreement on the eve of the expected meeting between President Trump and North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il, in preparation for an agreement on the North Korean nuclear program, will send a message that the United States cannot be relied upon, which signs an agreement but also can withdraw from it."

The U.S. has a very long history of abrogating promises, formal and otherwise.

• The Hungarian Revolution exposed the contradictions in United States (U.S.) policy that had existed since the formation of the Psychological Warfare Campaign during the Truman Administration and grown during the Eisenhower Administration. Because of leadership failures and organizational problems within the Eisenhower Administration, this psychological warfare effort encouraged the Hungarian people to rise up in rebellion, even though the Administration was unprepared to support such an uprising and the Department of State had opposed such agitation. ⁵
• The Broken Policy Promises of W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama report from Foreign Policy magazine.⁶

Never mind Washington’s lengthy litany of broken agreements to the American Indians.

Breaking agreements seems to be Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for most governments. North Korea is no exception so any agreement between the U.S. and North Korea will be worth less than the papers on which it is printed. That is NOT to state that, unlike the Iranian agreement, it won’t be violated before the ink is dry; hopefully it will be honored by both parties for a long time.

Theo. Roosevelt repeatedly said Treaties are not worth the paper they are printed on.⁷

Ms. Rice is entitled to her opinion and she is entitled to spin her opinions to satisfy her audience, but opinion not withstanding, the facts fail to support her argument.

Sources

1. http://tinyurl.com/yaehqx4s

2. http://tinyurl.com/yd2av7dn

3, http://tinyurl.com/h9osb7j

4. http://tinyurl.com/ya6xots2

5. www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a589819.pdf

6. http://tinyurl.com/y77kbfsb

7. http://tinyurl.com/ya89akaw

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