ISRAEL HAYOM
by Richard Baehr
August 2, 2015

John Kerry giveth and Barack Obama taketh away. After a few days of hearings ‎in U.S. House of Representatives and Senate committees and subcommittees, opponents of the Iran nuclear ‎deal were hoping for an extension of hearings, if for no other reason, than to keep ‎the secretary of state on the hot seat. The more Kerry spoke, the greater were the ‎doubts among wavering Democrats about the agreement. Kerry’s performance ‎combined some of his worst tendencies — a disdain for anyone challenging what he ‎regards as his received wisdom, and an inability to make a case, in this instance for ‎a bad deal that he himself negotiated. In the course of testimony this week, Kerry ‎admitted he did not know what was in the side agreements between the International Atomic Energy Agency and ‎Iran relating to the process for inspections of the Parchin site and other locations ‎where prior military activity related to Iran’s nuclear program may have occurred. READ MORE