COMMENTARY
by Max Boot
July 14, 2015

….I recommend skipping the bombastic White House PowerPoints, which claim that all Iranian pathways to a nuclear weapon have been “blocked,” or the obfuscatory language of the 150-page Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action itself, which reads like a document drafted by a committee of lawyers intent on papering over differences with extra-long and hard-to-follow sentences. For a more succinct (and, on the whole, accurate) account, go right to the statement issued by Tehran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency. It notes, inter alia: World powers have recognized Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and are to respect the nuclear rights of Iranian nation within international conventions…The Islamic Republic of Iran is to be recognized as a nuclear technology power authorized to have peaceful nuclear programs such as complete nuclear fuel cycle and enrichment to be identified by the United Nations….All unfair sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council including economic and financial sanctions on Iran are to be lifted…All nuclear installations and sites are to continue their work contrary to the early demands of the other party, none of them will be dismantled…The policy on preventing enrichment uranium is now failed, and Iran will go ahead with its enrichment program. READ MORE