Tag: Iranian nuclear deal
On Iran, GOP Is All Rage and No Ideas
Iran is like the health care debate for Republicans. They’re filled with rage but not with ideas.
— David Axelrod, quoted by the Washington Post.
Heights of Hyperbole
The Iran nuclear deal has left Republicans feeling bitter.
They sound as if we’re hurtling toward a frigid nuclear winter.
But all’s not lost,
It’s not a holocaust,
And it’s certainly not the “greatest appeasement since Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler.”
Rick Perry Calls Obama ‘Very Naive’
I saw a very, very naive man who does not know how the world works.
— Rick Perry, quoted by the Huffington Post, on President Obama’s announcement of a nuclear deal with Iran.
Graham: Iran Deal Declares War on Israel
My initial impression is that this deal is far worse than I ever dreamed it could be and will be a nightmare for the region, our national security and eventually the world at large.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), telling Bloomberg that the newly announced deal between Iran and six world powers is “akin to declaring war on Israel and the Sunni Arabs,” and will be a huge problem for Hillary Clinton.
Majority of Americans Backs Iran Nuclear Deal
58% to 33%
Margin by which a new Quinnipiac poll finds American voters support the preliminary agreement with Iran to restrict that country’s nuclear program.
Bachmann: Obama Set on Destroying the World
We need to cry out to a Holy God. This is coming faster than anyone can see. Barack Obama is intent, it is his number one goal, to ensure that Iran has a nuclear weapon. Why? Why would you put the nuclear weapon in the hands of madmen who are Islamic radicals?
— Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), asserting that President Obama is bringing the world to “end times,” TPM reports.
Listening to Netanyahu
The 47 senators who mounted the intervention
Thought they were preventing nuclear annihilation.
But it would have been better
To have not sent the letter,
Which Iran saw as proof of the U.S.’s disintegration.
Al Jazeera Explains How Clueless 47 Senators Were About Iran’s Nuclear Negotiations
Leave it to Al Jazeera America to give a little lesson in international relations to the 47 asshats who signed the now infamous letter to Iran threatening to obviate any agreement on that country’s nuclear designs. It’s worth a read, since I haven’t seen a similar explainer in the capitol press corp’s output.
Here’s a sample:
Beyond the amusing inaccuracies about U.S. parliamentary order, it seems there are some features of the nuclear negotiations that the signatory senators don’t fully understand — not only on the terms of the deal, but also on who would be party to an agreement.
There are no negotiations on Iran’s “nuclear-weapons program” because the world’s intelligence agencies (including those of the U.S. and Israel) do not believe Iran is currently building nuclear weapons, nor has it made a strategic decision to use its civilian nuclear infrastructure to produce a bomb. An active Iranian nuclear-weapons program would render moot the current negotiations, because Iran would be in fundamental violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
