{"id":1531,"date":"2015-07-14T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2015-07-14T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:25:07","slug":"the-iran-deal-roundup-ctd-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/07\/14\/the-iran-deal-roundup-ctd-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iran Deal Roundup, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deal was announced today.\u00a0 Laura Rozen of AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em> reports<\/a> on the reactions of the negotiating teams:<\/p>\n

But American, European and Iranian diplomats rallied after a couple hours of sleep to express the hope that the nuclear agreement announced July 14 would not only be durable in reassuring the international community<\/a> that Iran is not seeking a nuclear weapons capability, but that the successful nuclear negotiations could help open a new chapter<\/a> in relations between Iran and the international community after a tense decade fraught with hostility and mistrust. …<\/p>\n

Both Iran and the United States were at pains to show that the parameters of the final deal \u2014 whose formal name is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 met their security demands, while rejecting accusations from domestic political critics that they had made excessive concessions to the other side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’ll be interesting to see the reaction of the professional Iranian politicians over the coming weeks.\u00a0 The Tehran Times<\/strong><\/em> has a barebones report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rouhani also said Iran sought four objectives in the nuclear talks and all of them have been achieved.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first objective was to continue its nuclear activities, the second was to remove \u201cwrong and cruel\u201d sanctions, the third was to annul all the \u201cillegal\u201d the sanctions resolutions in the UN Security, and the fourth was to remove Iran\u2019s nuclear dossier from the agenda of UN Security Council, Rouhani said in a televised speech.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his remarks, Rouhani stated that 12 years of illusions and disinformation about Iran\u2019s nuclear activities came to an end and now a new chapter has been opened in Iran\u2019s relations with the world.<\/p>\n

He also said all through the process of nuclear talks Iran was insisting that a \u201cwin-lose\u201d agreement will not last and that only a \u201cwin-win\u201d agreement will be long lasting.<\/p>\n

The president also said that under the nuclear agreement Iran will have six thousands centrifuges that five thousands of which will operate in the Natanz facility and more than a thousand in Fordo.<\/span>
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An accompanying opinion piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Iranians with an ancient civilization are now proud of their country which succeeded to bring the tough and even hostile talks with great powers to a happy and prosperous end.<\/span><\/p>\n

The settlement of the nuclear dispute between Iran and the West at a time that some countries in the Middle East are burning in the fire of barbaric violence and terrorism was really heartening and promising.<\/p>\n

It shows that highly complicated issues like the Iran nuclear issue are resolvable if the sides show respect to each other\u2019s rights and concerns and also show sincerity.
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is not happy, reports<\/a> AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em>‘s Akiva Eldar:<\/p>\n

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The whole world speaks of a\u00a0historical agreement with Iran, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u00a0speaks\u00a0today, July 14,\u00a0of a “historical mistake\u00a0for the world<\/a>.”\u00a0Netanyahu used this same terminology many times in the past.<\/p>\n

On July 12,\u00a0the prime minister of a state the size of New Jersey,\u00a0tiny Israel,\u00a0announced,\u00a0\u201cWe will not accept\u201d the surrender to Iran by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, and also the leadership of the European Union’s 28 members.\u00a0At the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu accused the world powers of capitulating to Iran and ignoring its incessant calls for the destruction of the state of Israel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Eldar is not happy with the Prime Minister, who personally lead the diplomatic effort to defeat any deal:<\/p>\n

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The defeat in the campaign to foil the Iranian\u00a0plot to destroy Israel, as Netanyahu claims, will bear his name. The man who chose to personally lead one of the most difficult and intricate diplomatic missions that Israel has undertaken since its inception \u2014 if not the most difficult and intricate of them all \u2014 will bear sole responsibility for its failure. But we will all pay the price for the deep erosion in the estimation of Israel\u2019s international influence and of the wisdom of its leaders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The sanctions removal are only the most well-known change for Iran once the deal is implemented; they also will have access to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization<\/a> (SCO), reports<\/a> AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em>‘s Paul J. Saunders:<\/p>\n

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Established in 2001, the SCO became possible only after Russian-Chinese border agreements in 1991 and 1994 that resolved the disputes underlying the 1969 Soviet-Chinese border war.\u00a0Originally intended to manage technical cross-border issues, the SCO increasingly took on a geopolitical role during the US\u00a0and NATO war in Afghanistan.\u00a0At its 2005 summit, the SCO\u2019s members \u2014 Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan \u2014 signed a declaration<\/a> calling on \u201cmembers of the anti-terrorist coalition [fighting in Afghanistan] to set a final timeline for their temporary use\u201d of military bases in Central Asia \u2014 a delicate way to suggest that the United States and its allies should leave.<\/p>\n

… its deeper involvement in the Middle East could have important political implications.\u00a0First, if regional states perceive the SCO as a political alternative to alignment with (and dependence on) the United States and the West that avoids reliance on a single country \u2014 and includes major players such as China, India and Russia \u2014 the SCO could provide greater diplomatic flexibility to some Middle East governments.\u00a0Second, if Iran becomes a full member of the group not long after it gets out from under sanctions, it could strengthen Tehran\u2019s international political cover in pursuing its regional agenda.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the home front, Politico<\/strong><\/em> reports on GOP reaction<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It will be days before Congress receives the full nuclear agreement with Iran and all of its classified annexes for review, but hawkish GOP lawmakers immediately began picking apart the final deal reached early Tuesday as \u201cdangerous\u201d and a \u201cpossible death sentence for Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans have been warning President Barack Obama against a deal with Tehran for months, telling him to simply walk away as the negotiations dragged on past initial deadlines. But in the wee hours Tuesday, the administration announced a final deal to scale back Iran\u2019s nuclear program and ease strict economic sanctions, so GOP critics\u2019 job has shifted to building support in Congress to scuttle the deal by blocking Obama\u2019s ability to lift those sanctions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Politico<\/strong><\/em> also has a description of the complex agreement here<\/a>.\u00a0 Daniel Larison at The American Conservative<\/strong><\/em> has this to say<\/a> about the conservative politicians:<\/p>\n

The WSJ<\/em> report summarizes the contents of the deal:<\/p>\n

At the heart of the agreement between Iran and the six powers\u2014the U.S., U.K., Russia, China, Germany and France\u2014is Tehran\u2019s acceptance of strict limits on its nuclear activities for 10 years. These are supposed to ensure that the country remains a minimum of 12 months away from amassing enough nuclear fuel for a bomb. After the 10-year period, those constraints will ease in the subsequent five years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This will limit Iran\u2019s nuclear program more effectively than a decade of sanctions and coercive methods ever did, and it makes Iran\u2019s acquisition of a nuclear weapon much less likely than any other available course of action. The alternatives that Iran hawks have been proposing for the last two years\u2013ending negotiations, more sanctions, threatening or taking military action\u2013would have left Iran\u2019s program under fewer constraints and would have pushed Iran towards building nuclear weapons. It is important to remember that the loudest, shrillest opponents of this deal would have made a nuclear-armed Iran more likely if they had their way. So when the hard-liners start their inevitable cries of \u201cappeasement\u201d and \u201csurrender\u201d start, keep in mind that their \u201csolution\u201d would have failed and backfired as usual. If the deal is implemented fully, this should take the nuclear issue with Iran off the agenda for at least the next decade and possibly much longer than that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Grapes of Wrath<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

But here’s the thing.\u00a0 Remember when Mitch McConnell vowed<\/a> to do everything necessary to defeat President Obama at every turn, on every initiative?\u00a0 To this independent, that vow appears to have included intellectually dishonest assertions concerning the ACA, Libya, and a number of other initiatives pushed by Obama.<\/p>\n

And they have been wrong nearly every time.<\/em><\/p>\n

So let’s just step up to the plate here (it being the day for the All-Star game, after all), and finish hitting the ball: The GOP, because of its short-sighted concern about the calamity of a center-right<\/em> politician winning the Presidential election, rather than a far-right fringe candidate, has managed to lose the trust of nearly every independent voter in the USA.\u00a0 And this is damn near treasonous: this country doesn’t need to be dominated by either party; it benefits far more from tough, but honest debate on all topics.\u00a0 And once the debate is closed, then we should close ranks.<\/p>\n

Not attempt to butt into Presidential business by writing idiotic letters to our rivals<\/a>.\u00a0 Or deny the best findings of science when it doesn’t play nice with ideology.\u00a0 In other words, govern, dammit<\/em>.\u00a0 Fill those empty judicial seats.\u00a0 Tell your corporate sponsors to go away because you’re running a government, not a company.<\/p>\n

So when I think about reading the analyses of the deal to be published by the GOP Senators, all I can think is, They’re pre-written, pre-judged, and predicated on defeating Obama<\/em>.\u00a0 Debate on the merits?\u00a0 They have been so consistent in their opposition, so ridiculous in their reasoning, so intemperate in their words, and so … consistently … wrong, that I no longer think they know what a debate on the merits might be.\u00a0 Instead, it’s all about being partisan.<\/p>\n

And that is a disservice to this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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