Posted on 07/05/2015 12:52:59 PM PDT by smmt433
Over the past three years, the Obama administration has delineated the criteria that any final nuclear agreement between the P5+1 and Iran must meet. In speeches, congressional testimony, press conferences, and media interviews, administration officials have also articulated their expectations from Tehran with repeated declarations: No deal is better than a bad deal.
This FPI Analysis, which updates an earlier publication from January 2015, compiles many of the administrations own statements on nuclear negotiations with Iran over the past three years, and compares them with current U.S. positions. It also examines U.S. statements on a range of other issues related to U.S. policy toward Tehran, and assesses whether subsequent events have validated them.
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If Iran were not hell bent on developing an atomic bomb, they would welcome inspections of all their facilities without notice.
They will not do this and openly say they will not do this. Thus it is absolutely clear they want to develop atomic weapons, are developing atomic weapons and will have atomic weapons unless stopped by crippling sanctions, blockade of their oil exports via warships and the threat of military action on their nuclear facilities.
It is that simple.
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