The Iran Deal Gets Worse All The Time

One topic of discussion on Secure Freedom Radio yesterday was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or the “Iran Deal” as it’s better known.

Guest host Jim Hanson spoke with Fred Fleitz, the Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, a former CIA analyst.

What many Americans probably don’t know is that the Iran Deal merely “calls on” Iran not to test missiles. All the ingredients for a nuclear weapons program are there. Fleitz commented:

“The issue everyone’s been talking about lately is Iran’s missile program. Most experts believe ballistic missiles are a nuclear weapons delivery system, that a nuclear weapons program has three legs, making nuclear fuel, making the warhead, and the delivery system. Iran is the only nation in history to have ballistic missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers or more without having nuclear weapons but missiles were left out of the agreement due to Iran’s insistence.”

Fleitz points out that the weak language in the agreement makes not testing missiles a mere suggestion.

Hanson then turned the conversation to Putin’s recent actions in Syria, saying somewhat reluctantly that Putin has achieved an important objective:

“The bottom line is, if we took a page from his playbook, we could have done a lot of things to knock ISIS out of contention and stabilize that region.”

Hanson asked Fleitz if there’s any chance Obama will use this to America’s advantage. Fleitz responded:

“This administration isn’t going to do anything significant on the foreign policy front before the president leaves office. He’s going to sit back, wait for this nuclear deal to go through and hand the mess in Syria and Iraq to the next president.”

Finally, they discussed the possibility of Iran testing a space launch vehicle just as North Korea did recently. The point of developing such technology is obvious, according to Fleitz:

“Critics of conservatives like myself say, well this rocket can’t carry a nuclear warhead so it’s not an ICBM test – yes it is, because it is the test to develop the capability to fire a multi-stage rocket, the purpose of which is to carry an ICBM against the United States or Europe.”

It’s almost like Obama and John Kerry negotiated the Iran Deal against the interests of America and her allies. Almost.