Report: Obama gives in – no inspections of Iranian nuke facilities required for deal
Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) is reporting that the P5+1 led by the United States has capitulated to Iran’s demand that no inspections of nuclear facilities take place.
President Obama has been working to record another controversial accomplishment for his legacy – the Iranian nuclear weapons program negotiations.
A centerpiece to the Obama position has always been that inspections would be required for any deal to take place and that he would only accept a deal including this provision.
Iran has a history of cheating on sanctions and IAEA regulations on nuclear weapons development. Without inspections, the question to the value of the president’s negotiations is seriously in question.
Saying that the only deal he would sign off on would be a “good deal,” the President was expected to follow a “trust, but verify” paradigm as was central to the Nuclear START treaty with Russia decades ago. Instead, the President appears to be accepting of any deal, as long as he can claim credit for having secured the agreement.
Obama’s strategy seems to be draw a line in the sand, drop a ball on it, then hit the ball out of the sand and the sand will cover up the line…
Doesn’t even matter if the ball gets closer to the hole, so long as the media says it was a good try…