And one of them is precisely what I predicted all along.
3....2....1....See, I told you so:
[T]he agreement [between the UN and Iran] diverges from normal inspection procedures between the IAEA and a member country by essentially ceding the agency’s investigative authority to Iran. It allows Tehran to employ its own experts and equipment [at Parchin] in the search for evidence for activities that it has consistently denied — trying to develop nuclear weapons…
The document suggests that instead of carrying out their own probe, IAEA staff will be reduced to monitoring Iranian personnel as these inspect the Parchin site…
That wording suggests that — beyond being barred from physically visiting the site — the agency won’t even get photo or video information from areas Iran says are off-limits because they have military significance.
IAEA experts would normally take environmental samples for evidence of any weapons development work, but the agreement stipulates that Iranian technicians will do the sampling.
The sampling is also limited to only seven samples inside the building where the experiments allegedly took place. Additional ones will be allowed only outside of the Parchin site, in an area still to be determined. [emphases added]
I'm speechless, folks. But only because I predicted it all before. It's like an episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon gets tapped by the White House to come up with an inspection regime while Raj gets seduced by a comely Iranian agent who tells him she'll sleep with him if he lures Sheldon away on a field trip to a railroad yard, enabling her to sneak in and re-write all the inspection details. The usual zaniness ensues - like this secret side "deal" that puts the Iranian foxes in charge of "inspecting" their own chicken coop. It'd be entitled "The Iranian Nuclear Capitulation".
Veteran weapons inspectors are calling this farce "unprecedented":
Olli Heinonen, who was in charge of the Iran probe as deputy IAEA director-general from 2005 to 2010, said he could think of no similar concession with any other country.
Of course, he couldn't - because no other country would ever do something so completely stupid and insane and nationally suicidal. And that's because no other country that is even an ostensible constitutional republic would ever elect an enemy to its highest executive office. This is the kind of result that comes after a violent revolution, a coup de tat that overthrows that constitutional republic and replaces it with some manner of dictatorship. Which is not an overly-exaggerated description of what "We the People" did to ourselves in 2008 and 2012.
But as I've said all along, Barack Obama did not care what was in the "deal". He never did. He just wanted his Neville Chamberlain Moment, to be able to say that he did what none before him had ever done: achieved an alliance with the Islamic Empire of Iran. That such isn't possible, that the Iranians are even more contemptuously hostile to us now than ever before, and why such an outcome would have ever been in our national interests are all irrelevant. Because let us remember, reality is whatever The One says it is on any given day. He says, "We have peace in our time," and that's what we've got. And when the mullahs incinerate Tel Aviv and detonate a warhead three hundred miles over Kansas, sending our country back to the Stone Age, it'll all be the Republicans's fault - which he'll tell us from his comfortable billet in Tehran, to which his new Iranian friends will have evacuated him.
Or so he thinks they will. I tend to think they'd behead him after debarking from Air Force One and put his shocked visage on a spike outside Ali Khamenie's palace.
Iranian self-"inspection" isn't the only secret side deal to spill today. This next one is more like "insurance" to ensure that restoring economic sanctions will be futile:
In short, O has secretly told the five world powers in this deal that he's fine and dandy with them not "snapping back" sanctions after the mullahs are caught cheating - which, come to think of it, they never will be because they'll be "inspecting" themselves.
Even Howard Wolowitz in this scene had more dignity than Barack Obama has left us in this blanket act of treasonous betrayal. And in a sane world, this would be the last straw, and Congress would reject it unanimously (after which Obama would implement it anyway, but you already knew that).
Instead, more zaniness is about to ensue:
House Democrats have the votes, if necessary, to uphold Barack Obama's veto of a resolution against his Iran nuclear deal, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday.
Pelosi said that if such a vote were held today there would be enough support among House Democrats for Obama to prevail.
(I was looking for Volstagg saying this line in the first Thor film, but this will have to do.)
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