Everything President Obama Promised Us About The Iran Deal Is Starting To Unravel

by Paul Ryan: When you get down to it, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Obama administration essentially misled the American people on the Iran deal—or at least misled itself.

Everything the administration told us about the deal is starting to unravel. The administration assured us that it could reimpose—or “snap back” –sanctions if Iran cheated. That seems more improbable now that other countries and even American companies are racing back into the Iranian marketplace.

We were told that Iran would never get access to the dollar or the U.S. financial system. The administration now appears to be reconsidering, and a few weeks ago it purchased millions of dollars of heavy water from Tehran. This follows an apparent $1.7 billion ransom paid earlier this year in exchange for five Americans unjustly detained in Iran.

They also told us that, if we just dealt with the nuclear problem, America would be in a stronger position to combat Iran’s other destabilizing activities. Instead, the defiant and emboldened regime in Tehran continues to sponsor terrorism across the regime, test-fire ballistic missiles inscribed with “Death to Israel,” and abuse the basic human rights of its citizens.

In the hours before the State of the Union, we learned that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arrested ten American sailors, and photographed and videotaped them in captivity for propaganda. The administration’s reaction? Secretary of State John Kerry thanked the regime for its cooperation in eventually releasing the sailors, hailing an incident that should’ve never happened in the first place as a diplomatic success.

Time alone will tell whether the nuclear agreement stops Iran from getting the bomb, but here’s what we do know. We know that in five to eight years, respectively, the international ban on conventional weapons and ballistic missiles will be lifted. We know that in 10 to 15 years, most limits on Iran’s ability to enrich uranium and reprocess plutonium—two key steps in building a nuclear weapon—will expire. And we know that, once most of these constraints are gone, we’ll have nothing more than a promise from the mullahs that they won’t build a bomb. Meanwhile, an Iranian regime buoyed by a $100 billion windfall will be free to revamp its nuclear weapons program under the guise of international legitimacy.

The administration can spin it anyway it likes, but this was a bad deal.

Before this president leaves office, we must do everything possible to prevent his administration from making further concessions to Iran. This includes blocking any attempt to make it easier for the mullahs in Tehran to conduct their trade in dollars. We are also committed to renewing the Iran Sanctions Act by the end of this year.

For all its stagecraft, this administration’s deal has fallen flat in front of one key audience: our allies. During my recent visit to the Middle East, our delegation heard the same, sobering message everywhere we went: Where is the United States? This is the natural result of the administration’s embrace-your-adversaries foreign policy. In the process, it is abandoning our allies and any sense of a coherent U.S. policy in the region.

In the coming weeks, House Republicans will present the country with an overarching vision for our national security. Our goal is to restore a more confident America that keeps its word and upholds its commitments. This is what we need to keep the peace, protect our homeland, and make the world a safer place for this generation and the next.
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Paul Ryan (R-WI) isw Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives.

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