This is what I have learned. Iran gets in Year 1: Money; Year 5: Weapons; Year 8: ICBMs; Year 10: Nuclear Bombs.
Year 1: Sanctions are removed, giving Iran somewhere between $100-$150 billion from previously frozen accounts. {mprestriction ids="1,3"}In addition, the Ayatollah Khameni will have access to $95 billion in his heretofore-sanctioned network of “charitable” groups. Money is fungible. Even if Iran is prohibited from funneling those funds to terrorist groups, it can replace domestic spending which would free up monies for just that purpose.
Year 5: Iran can now purchase conventional weapons on the open market. This includes Rocket Propelled Grenade launchers (RPGs) and Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs), as well as automatic weapons, ammunition, tanks and more. Assume these “gifts” will benefit Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other Iranian-backed terror groups.
Year 8: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles can now be purchased, or built, by Iran. Since Iran already can aim its Shabbab short-range missiles at its neighbors — India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and of course Israel — one wonders at whom will those ICBMs be aimed? Well, America, for starters, but also Europe and Japan. Iran only needs to threaten to use them to get what it wants from the West.
Year 10: the Iran deal sunsets. The mullahs can now produce — with the high speed advanced centrifuges they were earlier allowed by this deal — nuclear weapons. Since they also have ICBMs, Iran now has the ability to make — and deliver their nuclear bombs.
This is a dangerous deal. Not just for Israel as Prime Minister Netanyahu has asserted, but also as opposition leaders Tzippi Livni and Isaac “Bougie” Herzog contend. It’s bad for America. It’s bad for our children and grandchildren — and for Congress, who will have lost the means to rein in Iran if the agreement is implemented.
Wouldn’t we rather face today’s weak Iran on the brink of bankruptcy? Defeat this deal and renegotiate a stronger deal — one that keeps sanctions in place, has quick verifiable on-the-ground inspections, limits Iran’s ability to fund terror groups, and prohibits developing ICBMS, fissile nuclear material and mass purchases of RPGs, SAMs and other weapons of war.
Or will we wait until Iran is a Mideast nuclear power and then beg the ayatollahs not to bomb Tel Aviv, New York and … Kansas?
Call Congress today at 202-224-3121. Tell your senators and representative to vote NO!{/mprestriction}
