The Wall Street Journal - November 24, 2013
President
Obama
is hailing a weekend accord that he says has "halted the progress
of the Iranian nuclear program," and we devoutly wish this were true.
The reality is that the agreement in Geneva with five Western nations
takes Iran a giant step closer to becoming a de facto nuclear power.
Start
with the fact that this "interim" accord fails to meet the terms of
several United Nations resolutions, which specify no sanctions relief
until Iran suspends all uranium enrichment. Under this deal Iran gets
sanctions relief, but it does not have to give up its centrifuges that
enrich uranium, does not have to stop enriching, does not have to
transfer control of its enrichment stockpiles, and does not have to shut
down its plutonium reactor at Arak.
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