The Sky is Falling: Obama is a Failure; Iran Nuke Deal Sucks; DEMS Hate Acorns
Conservatives Trash Iran Deal Framework That Experts Call “A Very Convincing
Agreement”
A few examples from the piece in this short summary:
“Conservative media
figures are lashing out against
tentative framework for a historic deal on Iran's nuclear
program as a surrender to
Tehran while ignoring the widespread
approval among diplomats, foreign relations, and nuclear weapons policy
experts of the agreement between the United States and five
other nations (P5+1) aimed at limiting Iranian nuclear ambitions
and production and thus spread of nuclear weapons in the volatile ME…”
Mr. Obama’s
announcement on April 2, 1015, in part: The key parameters for a
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's nuclear program, which “reflect
the significant progress that has been made toward ensuring the continued
pursuit of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran through
a strategy of inspections for 25 years, limiting enrichment capacity
for 10 years and reducing their nuclear stockpile by 97 percent. These
parameters are meant to form the foundation" of a final JCPOA to be
written and agreed upon by
June
30, 2015.” [The White House, Office of the Press Secretary,
4/2/15]
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said: It's a good
deal because it has “Cut Off Iran's
Path to a Nuclear Weapons Program.” She
stressed that by setting up an international inspection program and
stalling Iranian uranium and plutonium enrichment processes, the deal “accomplished
what was wanted.” [MSNBC,
Morning Joe,
4/3/15]
Former Bush-era Ambassador and State Undersecretary, Nicholas Burns:
We've got the entire world with us ... President Obama sas done very well.
Burns applauded the nuclear framework as “a sensible step forward toward
reducing
Iran
as a nuclear threat,” and noted that “we have got the entire world with us in pursuit
of this nuclear framework, and that President Obama has done very well to forge
ahead with a process that stalled during the Bush administration.”
[MSNBC,
Morning Joe,
4/3/15]
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Fellow, Michael Levi: Elements of
deal surprisingly Strong. Levi described the nuclear limits as “particularly
those on the Iranian supply chain, in the deal as surprisingly strong and
significant. [Council on Foreign Relations,
4/2/15]
Nuclear Proliferation Expert, Aaron Stein: If final deal
adheres to this framework, it will be excellent. Stein is both a
nuclear proliferation and
Middle East expert at the
Royal United Services Institute. He added that he would give it an “A rating”
because of “the inspections and transparency.” [Vox,
4/2/15]
Director of East
Asia Nonproliferation
Center,
Jeffrey Lewis: Inspection provisions amazing. Lewis, director
of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at Middlebury's Monterey (Calif)
Institute of International Studies added: that the “inspections and
transparency on the rotors, and the bellows, and the uranium mines is more than
I ever thought would be in this agreement.” [Vox,
4/2/15]
Ploughshares
President, Joe Cirincione: This is a very convincing agreement and will likely
find broad support. Cirincione concluded that is a very
convincing agreement, and will likely find broad support
among national security professionals. [MSNBC,
4/2/15]
Then from various rightwing nitwits, et al:
The National
Review says: Nuclear deal is a surrender to Tehran.
In that April 2 editorial they also claim that President Obama “wanted a deal
with
Iran so
badly that he accepted a truly awful bargain,” then went on claim that
President Obama's “zeal for an agreement at any cost forced the
United
States and its international partners to
cave in to Iranian demands on nearly every substantive point.” Then they demanded
that Congress “do everything it can to scuttle it.” [National Review
Online,
4/2/15]
FOX’s Sean Hannity describes the deal as capitulation. On
the April 2 edition of his FOX program, Hannity described the framework as “
Munich
2.” [Fox News,
Hannity,
4/2/15]
FOX’s Greg Gutfeld said Obama met Iranian demands on
bended knee. On the April 2 edition of
The Five, Gutfeld
claimed
Iran
had “forced the
US
"to the table,” and that President Obama's “longing for legacy” meant he
had simply figured out the other guy's needs and met them on bended knee.” [Fox
News,
The Five,
4/2/15]
FOX’s Jonah Goldberg said Iran
deal is a disaster and terrible. On the April 2 edition
of
Special Report, Fox contributor Goldberg also described the
deal, while a political success for the president, was disastrous.” [Fox
News,
Special Report,
4/2/15]
FOX’s Zez Chafets calls Iran
deal dangerous step in wrong direction. In an opinion piece
published at Fox News.com, Chafets slammed the deal as “a
triumph of diplo-babble designed to conceal the real intentions of its framers
and was a dangerous step in the wrong direction.” [Fox News.com,
4/2/15]
Washington
Times (the Rev. Moon rag), Wesley Pruden said everything about
the so-called deal with Iran
... is a lie. In an April 2 op-ed, Pruden denounced the
agreement framework, claiming “everything about the so-called deal with Iran,
including the reputations of the men who negotiated it, is a lie,” and then he attacked
Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama for “enabling Iran to
continue its pursuit of nuclear weapons while purposefully diminishing the
power and influence of the United States.” [
The Washington
Times,
4/2/15]
The Rightwing via FOX: working hard to insult, degrade, and undermine everything decent and just in the country, one broadcast at a time.
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