Nuclear deal perilous

The U. S. State Department lists both Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations, and Iran has supplied them with weapons used against the U. S. troops. The Council on Foreign Relations reports that former U. S. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell stated in June 2007 that “there is ‘ overwhelming evidence’ that Iran supports terrorists in Iraq and ‘ compelling’ evidence that it does the same in Afghanistan.”

This Iran deal frees up $ 150 billion in funds to Iran and lifts economic sanctions. Hence, “annual growth of Iran’s $ 420 billion economy would rise by as much as 2 percentage points to over 5 percent in the year after a final nuclear deal,” according to Iranian investment banker Ramin Rabii. All of these billions can then be used to help fund Iran’s nuclear weapons.

What does the world get? A supreme leader over this theocracy who shouts: “Death to America.” Weapons inspections? Not really. The AP has exposed Obama’s secret deal: “Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the UN agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press.”

When Iran gets caught breaking the deal, we are told economic sanctions will be imposed. But will they really? Sanctions are very difficult to impose.

So Iran gets billions while inspecting themselves. And we can trust them since they sponsor terrorism and shout death to America. How could anyone be for this deal? WILBURN ROWELL

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