By Rep. Jeb Hensarling
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. -- With
the Obama Administrations announcement today that it has reached a nuclear deal with Iran I am extremely concerned for the security of our great country and the future in the Middle East.
Congress has 60 days to review the details of the Administrations agreement with Iran and I will take the time to do just that.
However there are a number of obvious concessions laid out in this deal that are nothing short of disturbing.
Even if the Iranians follow the rules and adhere to all items in this deal their nuclear program will only be
slowed and not dismantled.
Without the ability to conduct inspections anywhere at any time it will be impossible for the outside world to ensure the Iranians are really complying at all.
Furthermore the very sanctions that brought the Iranians to the negotiating table should be removed if and only if the Iranians can affirmatively prove they are not cheating. In short this agreement rewards the Iranians billions of relief without a guarantee of
compliance.
The president has said repeatedly that he would rather walk away and have no deal than a bad deal.
Unfortunately the more we learn the more this looks like a bad deal. Perhaps the starkest example of this is the fact that Iran is celebrating while Israel is calling this an historic mistake for the world.
