Exceptional by Dick Cheney

Author:Dick Cheney [Cheney, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ON JULY 14, 2015, President Obama announced a new nuclear agreement had been reached with Iran. An early indication of how unfavorable the deal was for the United States—and how favorable to Iran—was the president’s speech about it from the red-carpeted Cross Hall of the White House. Had the deal been a fair one, he would have spoken frankly about it. Instead, within the first two minutes of the Cross Hall speech, the president told three falsehoods about the agreement.

The first falsehood was his claim that the deal “will prevent [Iran] from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” The truth is the opposite: This agreement will guarantee an Iranian nuclear arsenal. It allows the Iranians to maintain every element of their nuclear infrastructure and removes restrictions from their nuclear program within a decade. Even if one assumes for the sake of argument that the Iranians comply with the deal for the next ten years, at that point, they will have the ability, as the president has himself admitted, to achieve almost immediate nuclear breakout. The ten-year “sunset” provision is most accurately understood as the sun rising on an Iran armed with nuclear weapons. The president’s assertion that the Iranians have “pledged to the international community that they will not develop a nuclear weapon” is of little comfort, given that the Iranians have cheated on every nuclear agreement into which they have ever entered.

The president’s second falsehood was that the deal “stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region.” In fact, the agreement guarantees and even accelerates it by legitimizing for the first time ever an Iranian uranium enrichment program, something previously held by the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency to be illegal. Combine this with the removal of other key restraints, such as those on Iran’s ballistic missile program (about which more below), on its ability to ship conventional weapons to terrorists, and on the IRGC, which oversees Iran’s support for terror and is fomenting chaos and violence as Iran attempts to dominate the region, and there is more than enough reason for Iran’s neighbors to decide they must pursue their own nuclear weapons programs. Having watched President Obama retreat from the Middle East, and realizing that he capitulated on nearly every key issue in the negotiations with Iran, is it any wonder our allies have concluded they can’t count on us to defend them? Is it surprising they would question our ability to use our nuclear umbrella to protect them as they watch President Obama cut the size of our nuclear arsenal? The Obama deal will not stop nuclear proliferation. It will unleash it.

The president’s third falsehood was that “the international community will be able to verify that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon.” The claim is deceitful in two ways, first by misstating again what the agreement will accomplish. It will not keep the Iranians from developing a nuclear weapon. It legitimizes a pathway for them to do so. Secondly, it presents the verification provisions as though they were foolproof, which they are far from being.

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