But we aren't allowed to see what is in the deal:
Lawmakers and experts alike criticized the White House for refusing to release publicly the full text of the deal, which temporary halts some of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in economic sanctions relief.
[Representative Ileana] Ros-Lehtinen said on Tuesday during a HFAC hearing about the deal that even members of Congress must climb through hoops in order to view the deal.
“Why is it that members of Congress have to go to a super secret location, a cone of silence … to look at the deal?” Ros-Lehtinen asked a panel of nuclear experts.
Even allowing for the fact that Kerry surely negotiated the deal in French, we could have translated it into English by now, couldn't we?
This is going to be just great.
UPDATE: We can't see the deal, but President Obama is already moving closer to the Iranian position:
Speaking on Iran at last night's State of the Union, President Barack Obama avoided earlier administration assertions that Iran had already agreed to “dismantle” part of its nuclear program, and would be required to do so in any final deal.
Instead, he stuck to vague, boilerplate lines, saying that the interim agreement signed in Geneva last November had "halted the progress of Iran's nuclear program – and rolled back parts of that program – for the very first time in a decade.”
By avoiding the use of the word "dismantle" and any explicit mention of Iran's centrifuges – issues on which the US and Iran have traded accusations of duplicity in recent weeks – Obama signaled that he is not about to lay down any firm markers before the negotiators meet again next month.
Was there really a worry that this president was laying down a
In five more months, we'll probably say that the agreement requires us to provide Iran with actual nuclear weapons under the justificaton that Iran's ability to produce them on their own will be halted and made them reliant on us.
Nobel Peace Prizes all around!
