Stories like this one do much to reinforce the realization that the Iranian nuclear weapons manufacturing program and the circle-jerking "negotiations" to purportedly "curb" it were two entirely different phenomena that had nothing whatsoever to do with each other:
Iran appears to have built an extension to part of its Parchin military site since May, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a report on Thursday delving into a major part of its inquiry into possible military dimensions to Tehran's past atomic activity....
The confidential IAEA report, obtained by Reuters, said: "Since (our) previous report (in May), at a particular location at the Parchin site, the agency has continued to observe, through satellite imagery, the presence of vehicles, equipment, and probable construction materials. In addition, a small extension to an existing building appears to have constructed."
Diplomats say any activities Iran has undertaken at Parchin since 2012 are likely to have undermined the agency's ability to verify intelligence suggesting Tehran previously conducted tests there relevant to nuclear bomb detonations. [emphasis added]
To reiterate: While a "preliminary agreement" was in place that supposedly froze the mullahs' nuclear assembly line, Tehran was merrily enlarging it heedless of any agreements at whatever stage of negotiations they might of been, and indeed, heedless of any negotiations at all. They've steadily built their program over the entire dozen years that we've been "diplomatically" (i.e. futilely) attempting to talk them out of it. A process so pathetically irrelevant to any real-world conditions or results as to be worse than a mere waste of time, but an active aiding and abetting of the enemy's drive to one day destroy us and our allies. I don't know that one could even call it cheating, because that implies that Ali Khamenie gave us any word to keep in the first place. Obama and John Kerry simply imagine that he did, just as they're pretending that this "deal" does anything other than sign our and Europe's and Israel's death warrants.
But reality doesn't matter to Red Barry. Only his rancid, discredited ideology and supreme ego matter, and thus his "deal" will do none of the things it in fact will and will do everything that it will, in fact, not. Because he says so. And we are required to believe him and bow down to him in weeping gratitude and reverence.
It would have been this way even if congressional Republicans hadn't eviscerated the Senate's Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 ratification power. No Senate ratification wouldn't have stopped O from implementing it anyway as a Congress-bypassing Executive decree. Because, of course, "We can't wait" and "If Congress won't act, I will," and "I've got a pen and I've got a phone". All the usual despotic rotgut. Be rendered powerless (since impeachment and conviction are far outside the Overton Window) or be an accessory to that tyrannical emasculation in exchange for leverage that might move said "window" by a resounding rejection of the "deal" in concert with 2-1 public opposition, even if the vote fell short of veto-proof majorities. Because, again, O will implement it anyway regardless.
But what if Senate Republicans can't even muster the votes to overcome a Democrat filibuster of that toothless congressional resolution?
Welcome to the endgame of GOP Failure Theater:
The numbers are tight: They’ll need twelve of the remaining fifteen undecided Senate Democrats to go Obama’s way [in order to filibuster a Republican resolution of disapproval], along with the twenty-nine already there…
Obama faces a huge pile-up of trouble if he has to veto the bill, and they know it in the West Wing. Already facing major public skepticism about the deal, this could brew more doubt. The other governments involved have expressed their own wariness, concerned that a deal preserved only by a sustained veto might represent a lack of long-term American commitment.
“There’s a cost to the international credibility of the country and this president....
Which Dems do not separate, as they consider the former to be both subordinate to and part of the latter.
....if a motion of disapproval passes the House and the Senate,” said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), who’s working with Durbin. “There is some harm to the country’s standing if we have to go through the charade of the veto.”… [emphasis added]
IOW, it would embarrass Obama while not, in fact, blocking anything. He wants his "deal" and the glorious prestige that is supposed to go with it.
With the United Nations General Assembly meeting set for after the initial vote, the White House would much rather have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu come to New York to rail against an Iran deal that’s already on the books, versus Netanyahu rolling up to a U.N. podium to call on lawmakers to overturn an Obama veto as one last chance to stop the deal.
Because of course The One has to get the last double-extended-middle-finger laugh on his archenemy Bibi as well.
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry (G)Reid is whipping and arm-twisting and headlocking like mad in favor of the "deal". Incoming (?) Senate Minority (Majority?) Leader Chucky Schumer, who supposedly opposes it, is sitting there with his thumb up his ass. Eeyore gives it a week before Schumer meekly caves altogether. That's probably an optimistic estimate.
And then "Failure Theater"s....
....failure will be complete.
And after that?
Well....
....you know.
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