Despite claims that having no deal with Iran is better than having a bad deal, the Obama administration has announced a deal that will fund the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism with $150 billion in unfrozen assets without the “anytime, anywhere” nuclear Iranian inspections lionized by the administration. For the threat this deal proves to our national security and the disregard it shows for our ally Israel, we must urge Congress to reject it.
I will repeat: Israel is a U.S. ally. That fact can be hard to fathom given that our federal executive has just proposed to fund Iran, whose Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said, “This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of #Israel, which spares no crime has no cure but to be annihalated [sic].” We are dealing with a man who has released a nine question chart on the hows and whys of “the elimination of Israel.” We are dealing with the patron of Hamas and Hezbollah, the world’s largest Islamic extremist terrorist organizations. Worse still, we are dealing with a U.S. administration that has rescinded promise after promise on this issue, ironically driving a nail in the coffin of our allied relations and our national security in the name of maintaining peace.
In return for (1) the U.S. payment of an immediate (not gradual or phased) $150 billion, (2) our agreement to undergo a labyrinthine bureaucratic process before inspecting possible Iranian nuclear sites (which process Iran can drag out for up to 24 days, allowing them to conceal any illicit behavior in the meantime), and (3) our professed agreement to take the lives of millions of Israelis into our own hands, we receive something that history has been shown to be worth nothing: Iran’s word.
President Obama has said that those who oppose this deal favor war—a claim that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu calls “utterly false.” As AP reported, “The White House has urged lawmakers to vote solely on the deal’s ability to prevent Iran from building a bomb, not on its other destabilizing activities or anti-American sentiments.” One would have to ignore all conscience to disregard the anti-American sentiments ayatollah-followers who shout “death to America” in the streets. What is worse, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Iran will dedicate a portion of the funds it receives from the deal to terrorist efforts. A decade of hope that Iran will not make a bomb is not worth funding terrorism and sacrificing our ally on the altar of our fear.
Obama’s recent speech at American University touted the deal by pointing out that many who are opposed to it also voted to go to Iraq, a decision now known to be based on flawed intelligence. Perhaps he has forgotten that his current Secretary of State, his former Secretary of State, and his Vice President also voted to authorize war with Iraq.
These votes, however, are not the only vestiges of the past apparently forgotten in the wake of Obama’s support-garnering. Take for instance his reelection campaign promise that he would only accept a deal with Iran that required that Iran “give up its nuclear program and abide by the U.N. resolutions that have been in place.” Also lost in translation was this promise: “the deal we’ll accept is [that the ayatollahs] end their nuclear program. It’s very straightforward.” Perhaps we are missing what is straight forward about requiring the international community to not only facilitate, but also protect Iran’s nuclear program.
As Netanyahu acutely said, “”The nuclear deal with Iran doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb. It actually paves Iran’s path to the bomb.” Let us stand with our ally. Urge your congressmen to vote down this deal and to stand with Israel. Read about the likely unconstitutional legislative juggling that has taken place to get the deal this far. Stand up for our safety and for the safety of Israel!
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