August 7, 2015 | Quote
Reversing Iran deal Wouldn’t Be Easy for Next President
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The deal “effectively dismantles the U.S. and international economic sanctions architecture, which was designed to address the full range of Iran's illicit activities,” sanctions expert Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told the Senate Banking panel.
He and other experts say it wouldn't be easy to put those restrictions back in place in the face of opposition from other countries. Meanwhile, Iran would be able to unfreeze its nuclear program and resume enriching uranium without limits, a key element in concerns that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon.
Indeed, the deal signed July 14 in Vienna notes that “Iran has stated that it will treat such a re-introduction or re-imposition of the sanctions specified in Annex II, or such an imposition of new nuclear-related sanctions, as grounds to cease performing its commitments under this [agreement] in whole or in part.”
Iranian officials already have indicated that all bets will be off if they believe the United States walks away or reneges on the deal. In a letter last month to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, Iranian officials complained that comments by White House spokesman Josh Earnest on July 17 about how the agency's inspections would enhance U.S. and Israeli abilities to use military force were a violation of the deal.
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