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Nuke deal with Iran will leave U.S. compromised

Iranian leaders may want to reconsider their “Death to America” philosophy. In some ways this country may be one of their best friends – at least under President Barack Obama.

After all, we are volunteering to help defend the nuclear weapons program Iran claims it doesn’t have against those who would delay or cripple it.

A normal reaction to that would be “Huh?” But read the proposed agreement among Iran, the United States and five other countries regarding Tehran’s nuclear weapons initiative. Concluded earlier this summer, the deal was supposed to prevent Iran from proceeding with its A-bomb program.

But Obama, fanatically eager to be able to make a “peace in our time” claim, encouraged U.S. negotiators to bow to most of the demands made by their Iranian counterparts. As as result, it will be impossible to enforce the deal’s provisions or to punish Iran if it is caught cheating.

Leaders in some Middle East nations, including Israel and Saudi Arabia, are worried about the proposal. If the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, Germany and France go along with Iran, that nation is likely to have nuclear weapons within a few years – a decade at the outside.

And while Iranian technicians are building their bombs, Americans will be helping safeguard them and their work.

It does not appear the proposed agreement includes any language, as some have charged, that would require the United States to respond militarily, should Iran be attacked. But the deal does involve language requiring us to come to Tehran’s aid should other countries use more realistic methods of attempting to stop the bomb building.

Part of the deal requires U.S. “cooperation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems.” In other words, American know-how would be extended to the Iranians.

Remember Stuxnet? That was the computer “worm” Israeli government hackers introduced into Iranian nuclear weapons program computers in 2010. It set the initiative back months, perhaps years, as the Israelis intended.

Should the new deal be implemented, the United States would have to help Iran defend against such an attack in the future. Similar help would be provided to guard against other types of sabotage.

Incredible? Yes. Unbelievable? Sadly, no – not from a White House with a track record of thumbing its nose at our allies while pandering to the enemies of peace.

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