Dunetz on the Iran deal: It stinks!

There is no other way to describe the Iran deal announced last week — it stinks!

Iran is not closing a single nuclear facility, not one centrifuge gets dismantled, some of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium gets "converted" but all of it stays in the country. Their entire nuclear infrastructure is intact, Iran gets to continue its nuclear research, the ballistic missile program continues, the sanctions come off as Iran complies and while there are provisions for them to snap back, any such action needs to be approved through the U.N. Security Council and a possible Russian veto. 

According to the White House, Iran has agreed to reduce by approximately two-thirds its installed centrifuges. Iran will go from having about 19,000 installed today to 6,104 installed under the deal, with only 5,060 of these enriching uranium for 10 years. Not mentioned is the fact that those 5,060 centrifuges will not give Iran the capacity to run nuclear power plants, only enough to create fuel for bombs. The remaining 13,000 centrifuges do not get destroyed, they get put in a U.N.-controlled storage facility in Iran.  It wouldn't take long for Iran to get them out of the "closet" and put them back in their facilities.

Remember the Fordow nuclear facility built inside a deep bunker inside a mountain? That is typical of the how this Iran deal doesn't stop Iran from doing anything. President Obama was saying as late as 2012: "We know they don’t need to have an underground, fortified facility like Fordo in order to have a peaceful program." But, the Iranians simply refused. So, the Americans caved and said that they could keep it open as a research facility, but they had to remove all the centrifuges for storage. This week, it emerged that the Iranians would be allowed to keep centrifuges spinning inside the mountain. But, instead of spinning uranium, the centrifuges would be spinning germanium or similar non-nuclear elements.

That's what the Administration means when it say there will be no "enrichment" going on at Fordow. But that's not exactly the case.