Iran Deal Advent of 'Second Nuclear Age'?

By Chris Mitchell

CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief

Thursday, September 03, 2015

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is one of the most outspoken critics of the Iranian nuclear deal. Cotton visited Israel this week and explained to CBN News why he believes this agreement may be one of the worst in American history.

Sen. Cotton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders about the Iranian deal. He says the deal puts Israel and the United States in great danger.

"Even if Iran follows the deal to the letter, they're going to be a nuclear threshold state in a mere 10 or 15 years, which Prime Minister Netanyahu says is a blink of an eye in the life of nations," Cotton told CBN News.

Secretary of State John Kerry made the case that the deal is the best way to prevent Iran from going nuclear.

"Without this agreement, Iran's breakout time was two months," Kerry said. "With this agreement, it will increase by a factor of six, to at least a year, and it will remain at that level for a decade or more."

"Without this agreement, Iran could double its operating centrifuges almost overnight, and continue expanding with ever more efficient designs," he continued. "With this agreement, Iran's centrifuges will be reduced by two-thirds for 10 years."

Sen. Cotton exposed the secret side deal between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over Iran's sensitive military site at Parchin. Instead of outside inspectors, the deal allows Iran to inspect itself and send in the results to the U.N. inspection agency.

"It's kind of like letting an NFL player take his own drug test at home and mail it in to Roger Godell at NFL offices so he can establish his eligibility," the senator said.

Cotton said if Iran goes nuclear, they're different from other nations.

"Iran is run by radical clerics who continually chant 'death to America' and 'death to Israel' in the street led by their national leadership," he explained. "They have the blood of hundreds of Americans on their hands from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They continue to kill Jews all around the world … and they are destabilizing the entire Middle East."

Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, the president has the votes he needs in the Senate to uphold his promised veto.

"So for the first time in American history a deal is going to go forward with a majority vote against it in both the Senate and the House and a strong majority of the American people against it," Cotton said.

"This nuclear deal is going to be the worst agreement in the history of American foreign policy and that's because the president didn't respect the Constitution, didn't respect the treaty clause of the Constitution," he continued.

"If there's anything that should have been submitted to the Congress as a treaty it's a nuclear arms deal with a mortal and unrepentant enemy," Cotton said.

With Middle East nations already saying publically and privately they want nuclear weapons, Cotton fears the deal will inevitably lead to a nuclear arms race with possible catastrophic consequences to the region and to the United States.

"I believe if this deal goes forward, we are at risk of entering a second nuclear age and the loss of life, not in the tens, not in the thousands, not in even the hundreds of thousands -- but in the millions," he warned. "And that loss of life could include American life because Iran is also developing a ballistic missile program and they also have shown they are willing to kill Americans."

White House Playing a Dangerous Game with Israel

By John Waage

CBN News Sr. Editor

Thursday, October 30, 2014

No matter which party winds up controlling the House and Senate after next Tuesday's elections, we will hear the usual calls for bipartisan cooperation.

Many Democratic candidates are running in hyper-drive trying to distance themselves from President Barack Obama.

One area in which they could find some common ground with Republicans is to oppose the increasingly dangerous penchant of the White House and State Department to attack Israel, a country that is already under greater siege because of failed U.S. behavior in the Middle East.

In the past few months, Israel has withstood the terrorist kidnapping and murder of three teenagers, a rocket barrage from Gaza that triggers seek-shelter sirens for some two million Israelis, an incursion to stop those rocket attacks, the murder of an 8-month old American-Israeli baby who was hurled into the air when a terrorist driver plowed into a crowd at a Jerusalem train stop (as well as a tribute to that terrorist by members of Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party), and now the apparently nationalist shooting of an Orthodox Jewish figure on the streets of the Israeli capital.

And all of that happened as ISIS pursues its bloody quest to build a caliphate, Syria's regime kills hundreds of thousands of its own citizens and forces millions to flee, and Iran spins its centrifuges to build the nuclear bombs it craves, while the West yawns.

The administration's response: it allowed a "senior advisor" to tell The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a "chickens***t" and a coward for not striking Iran and for not pursuing U.S. demands for further negotiations now with Abbas and other Sunni leaders.

More significantly, that advisor also seemed to welcome Iran's nuclear progress, while the U.S. foreign policy apparatus bears down on Israel for building apartments in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

When asked by a reporter, "Is the administration trying to figure out who made those inappropriate and counter-productive comments," a State Department spokesperson, showing disdain for the subject, answered, "There are anonymous sources in all of your stories every single day. If we spent all of our time focused on that effort, we wouldn't be working on diplomacy."

Nearly 24 hours later, her boss, Secretary of State John Kerry, finally called the remarks "disgraceful, unacceptable and damaging," and said they did not reflect his views or those of the White House.

Earlier this year, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon was forced to apologize for calling Kerry "obsessive" and "messianic"--not in a public interview, but in a private conversation. Ya'alon believed Kerry's plan for Israeli territorial concessions to the Palestinians would severely compromise Israel's security.

This past week, the administration refused to set up meetings for Ya'alon with Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden while the minister was in the United States.

If the White House and Foggy Bottom aren't held to account for their practice of benign neglect of the world's most dangerous regimes at the expense of Israel, this nation and all of its allies can expect to pay a much steeper price in chaos and disruption.

A few House and Senate Democrats, along with Republicans, have shown courage in raising questions about blanket U.S. funding of Palestinian and U.N. projects that almost certainly have terrorist connections, and about insisting on guarantees that the Obama team allow Congress to have a say in any nuclear deal with Iran.

They would do well to sound the alarm. It is virtually certain that what is happening in Tehran, Jerusalem, and Washington will move quickly up the priority list on the national agenda--and perhaps soon.

At that time, the question of whether our leaders can discern between friend and adversary could become a matter of life and death for many people.

Source: CBN News

NOTE from Love For His People: We are outraged that the highest representatives in our USA government continue to treat our friends in Israel with such disrespect. They do not represent the vast majority of Americans anymore. Forgive us Lord God of Israel.

Steve Martin
President
Love For His People, Inc.