In selling his nuclear deal with the Iranians, President Obama says that his “historic understanding” would “cut off every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon.”
He asks the American people to trust his word and judgment. That trust must be denied, because Obama hasn’t been straight with the American people about Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
When he unveiled his tentative deal, Obama made the shocking revelation that Iran was “only two or three months away from potentially acquiring the raw materials that could be used for a single nuclear bomb.”
How close Iran has been to that “break out” threshold has been central to the question of how urgently Obama has needed to confront the mullahs.
Before visiting Israel in 2013, the President said there was plenty of time to negotiate, since Iran was “over a year or so” from a nuclear weapon, leaving “ a window of time where we can resolve this diplomatically.” After Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyhau warned that Iran was just six months from a nuclear weapon, Obama scoffed that the mullahs were “a year or more away” — a timeframe he said “is probably more conservative than the estimates of Israeli intelligence services.”
But those weren’t the facts at all, according to U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.
Talking to Bloomberg View Monday, Muniz revealed that, actually, the administration has known for the last few years that Iran was just months away from having the fissile material for a true weapon of mass destruction.
The evidence says Obama hid a critical truth to achieve his aims. Trust him now? No way.
"Talking to Bloomberg View Monday, Muniz revealed that, actually, the administration has known for the last few years that Iran was just months away from having the fissile material for a true weapon of mass destruction."