New York City Restaurants Have Tougher Inspections Than Iran Nuke Deal

Last week the Jerusalem Post published this biting criticism of the Iran nuclear agreement by legendary Jewish comic Jackie Mason:

“Do you know that in the restaurants of New York, they have an inspection system.  You can surprise any restaurant without notice that you can walk in and inspect them… So we are protected in this city from a bad tuna fish.  We’re not protected from a bomb but we’re protected from a bad quality of a tuna fish.”

Although Mason’s comparison of New York City restaurant inspections to the Iran nuclear deal sounds like a stand-up comic routine, he was deadly serious.  Mason may be a comic but he is also an outspoken advocate of Israel.  He knows that ridiculing the Iran agreement is a way to help Americans understand how bad it really is.

Mason also said about the agreement’s inspections provisions:

“First Obama said we can inspect them any time, any place, whenever we please. Now it turns out ‘whenever we please’ except when they don’t allow it.  If they don’t want it it’s up to them. So then we have to wait 28 days [actually it’s 24] to inspect, as if to say for the 28 days we can trust them completely, because they’ll do nothing. They’ll just hold the bomb in front of us waiting for us to come so they can show it to us. That’s how stupid this negotiation is to us.”

Senator Bob Corker made a comment last week that also explains in simple terms why the Iran deal is so awful.

“There are qualities to this [agreement] that, unfortunately, I’m told I cannot get into. But there are qualities to this [inspections] program that would not be unlike causing athletes to just mail in their own urine specimens in the mail and us believing that’s where it – that it came from them.”

The Obama administration is trying to counter opposition to the nuclear agreement with Iran by inundating the American people with false, hard-to-understand claims that the agreement will slow Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and promote international security.  Americans are confused by sparring between supporters and opponents of the agreement over nuclear technology terms and diplomatic niceties.  The mainstream media is solidly behind the agreement and will not report on the growing list of problems opponents have found, including secret side deals allowing Iran to collect its own nuclear samples.

This is why we need people like Jackie Mason, Senator Bob Corker, and Senator Bob Menendez to help explain to the American people in simple terms why the nuclear agreement is so dangerous.  The Center for Security Policy is also engaged in this battle through our IranTruth.org website.  I hope you will visit it today.