The only diplomacy that will prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons is diplomacy that will force Iran “to make a choice between its nuclear infrastructure and the fuel cycle on the one hand, and access to nuclear peaceful and economic relief on the other,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project writes in an op-ed that was published yesterday in The Miami Herald.
Terms leaked about the emerging nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran, on the other hand, will offer Iran an opportunity to build a significant nuclear weapons program to threaten and destabilize an already volatile Middle East.
The emerging deal will reportedly allow Iran to maintain its nuclear-enrichment program — and then expand it to unlimited, industrial size in as few as 10 years. Rather than stopping proliferation, such an agreement would ensure massive nuclear proliferation across the Middle East, threaten global peace and embolden Iran as it emerges victorious from negotiations with the West.
Given Iran’s record of supporting global terror as well as cheating on its past nuclear commitments, any deal that doesn’t force it to stop enriching uranium indefinitely will offer Iran the opportunity to violate its future commitments with impunity.
The truth is, Iran is an unabashed terrorist regime that provides financial and operational support to the Assad killing machine, violent radical Islamist groups from Hezbollah and Hamas to al Qaida, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Indeed, the majority of terror attacks over the past 35 years have been linked to Iran, and more Americans were killed last year by Iranian-backed terrorists than by terrorists of the so-called Islamic State. …
While pocketing countless U.S. concessions on virtually every aspect of its program — enrichment, plutonium, ballistic missile delivery systems, past illicit nuclear weapons work, continued expansion of centrifuge research — Iran has played the West for a fool. Tehran has failed to grant unfettered access to inspect nuclear infrastructure and continues to stonewall the IAEA, the very organization that would be charged with monitoring any new nuclear agreement.
Without forcing Iran to choose, Block writes, “Iran will continue to pursue its strategy of delay and deceit, bringing the world closer to the brink of a nuclear nightmare.”
A report issued today by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found Iran once again to be in violation of its commitments to reveal all aspects of its past nuclear weapons research.
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