One of the myths surrounding the Iran deal is that opposition is effectively confined to Israel and a few hard-line US conservatives. The UK may have positioned itself in Vienna as President Obama’s nodding donkey, but in the world away from the US administration’s spin and Iranian lies, opposition to the deal is near unanimous among those Middle Eastern states that are not client states of the Islamic Republic. They can see what President Obama and the other Western signatories wilfully fail to see: that with sanctions lifted, Iran will no longer be just dangerous and hell-bent on acquiring a nuclear weapon. It will be rich, dangerous and hell-bent on acquiring a nuclear weapon. To a regime that thinks in terms of millennia, the 15 year span of the deal is barely even the blink of an eye. Yet this is hailed by some as being ‘better than nothing’. Really? In what world is handing the Iranians the money and the time to acquire a nuclear weapon — not to mention the financial clout to spend even more heavily on terrorism — better than not doing so? Truly we live in strange times.
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