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In reply to the discussion: John Kerry was superb on Morning Joe today. [View all]karynnj
(60,854 posts)The KNOWN facilities - the entire supply chain - are being monitored 24 hours a day. The terms you speak of are for areas NOT NOW identified as having nuclear items. If the IAEA finds one of these suspicious places, they will go through a process that can take as much as 24 days to get inspections.
What you are repeating is Netanyahu's distortion - where he conflates the two. He then ignores that if nuclear material is somewhere it is FAR FAR more persistent than his example of drugs. Traces amounts will be found even 24 days later. In addition, note that they would need to covertly create an entire covert supply chain. (I ask you to consider why Netanyahu is intentionally distorting things and then look at the ease with which he lied before the election -- and how completely unsurprised Israelis were that he lied through his teeth.)
The deal that the 6 nations worked on was JUST to eliminate the chance of them getting a bomb. Iran remains on both the human rights and the terrorism report the State Department wrote in June. As to the terrorist funding and supplying arms, as Obama and kerry both spoke of, nothing in this agreement lowers what we are doing to try to stop that. In fact, Obama spoke of increasing their intelligence and interdicting more of what is passed.
Obviously, there is a long list of things that would be nice to have been included, but the question is that given what was negotiated - are we better with or without it. That is the real choice.