FORBES
by Harold Furchtgott-Roth
July 27, 2015

The United States ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1969 after the U.S. Senate advised ratification in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, and the treaty went into effect in 1970. Can the administration issue by itself an order that conflicts with that treaty?… the Iran Deal conflicts with—indeed, violates—the NPT, an international treaty to which the United States is a signatory….Under Article I of the NPT, “Each nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty [US] undertakes … not in any way to assist, encourage, or induce any non-nuclear weapon State [Iran] to … otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, or control [ICBMs] over such weapons or explosive devices. Yet the entire Iran Deal is a road map for Iran to obtain devices that provide “control over such weapons or explosive devices.” READ MORE