{"id":44453,"date":"2015-04-12T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44453"},"modified":"2015-04-12T04:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T04:51:53","slug":"blog-friend-cheryl-rofer-on-the-iranian-nuke-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44453","title":{"rendered":"Blog friend Cheryl Rofer on the Iranian nuke deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — and Furnish pwns Sowell — corrected version ]
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First there’s Cheryl Rofer<\/strong>‘s piece on Nuclear Diner<\/em>, The Iran Framework Agreement: The Good, the Bad, and TBD<\/a>. Then that gets quoted by Alexander Montgomery<\/strong> in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage<\/em><\/a> for April 6. Note: I has originally quoted Montgomery but attributed the quote to Cheryl, see her comment below. I have now removed the quote in question.<\/font> And now Cheryl has a piece in Mother Jones<\/em> titled Never Mind the Doubters: The Iran Deal Is Good Enough<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The final deal remains to be negotiated. The fact sheet is only an outline, and some issues will be easier to solve than others. Still to be worked out: Sanctions, particularly the schedule on which they are to be lifted. A list of research and development activities that Iran is allowed to pursue may or may not have been drawn up in Lausanne. Details on how Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile will be reduced and the redesign of the Arak reactor are missing.<\/p>\n

The extent of Iran’s past activity on nuclear weapons was relegated to the IAEA by the P5+1 throughout the negotiations, and is a lesser provision in the fact sheet. Do we have to know all Iran’s dirty secrets to police a future agreement? Probably not.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Leader issued a tweet stream that seems to give his blessing for a deal to go forward, but his words were unclear enough that domestic hardliners could seize on them in an attempt to scuttle the deal. Iran’s President Rouhani has voiced his support. In Israel, even the general who bombed the Osirak reactor thinks it’s a good deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Methinks kudos are in order — and I personally am thankful for a voice of informed and informative nuance on so hotly contested and significant a topic.<\/p>\n

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In other Iranian nuclear deal<\/strong> news, blog friend Tim Furnish<\/strong> has taken on his fellow-conservative Tom Sowell<\/strong>‘s NRO piece on the topic, There\u2019s No Deterring an Apocalyptic Nuclear Iran<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Fellow #Conservatives<\/a>: PLEASE read my 2011 paper on #Iran<\/a> & #WMD<\/a> before (ignorantly) opining: http:\/\/t.co\/K8QPbCdCZ4<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WLBSUOOQU3<\/a><\/p>\n

— Timothy Furnish, PhD (@Occidentaljihad) April 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n