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On Tuesday, President Obama announced after a two years of negotiations, the United States along with all members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany have obtained a comprehensive long term agreement with Iran which prevents that nation from obtaining a nuclear device.

The president stated in his remarks that this “deal meets every single one of the bottom lines that we established when we achieved a framework earlier this spring. Every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off. And the inspection and transparency regime necessary to verify that objective will be put in place. Because of this deal, Iran will not produce the highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium that form the raw materials necessary for a nuclear bomb.”

The announcement by the president sent shock waves throughout the Middle East, especially by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who called limiting Iran’s nuclear program in return for lifting the sanctions “a bad mistake of historic proportions.”

Now the devil is in the details, but there are numerous questions on this deal which still have to be answered by the administration as he sells this agreement to a highly skeptical Congress.

One Senator in particular has been highly critical of any agreement with Iran has been Democratic Senator Bob Menendez about the Iran deal. “The deal doesn’t end Iran’s nuclear program; it preserves it,” Menendez said on MSNBC. “This does not guarantee that Iran will not achieve a nuclear weapon in the future.”

One of the assumptions the president made in his remarks is that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would be the lead organization to inspect and to ensure Iran was in compliance with the agreement.

As the president stated in his remarks, “Iran

[Inspectors] will have access to Iran’s entire nuclear supply chain — its uranium mines and mills, its conversion facility, and its centrifuge manufacturing and storage facilities. This ensures that Iran will not be able to divert materials from known facilities to covert ones. Some of these transparency measures will be in place for 25 years.”

Continuing the president stated “Because of this deal, inspectors will also be able to access any suspicious location. Put simply, the organization responsible for the inspections, the IAEA, will have access where necessary, when necessary. That arrangement is permanent. And the IAEA has also reached an agreement with Iran to get access that it needs to complete its investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran’s past nuclear research.”

President Obama failed to mention that Iran can question which sites they visit and it goes to a committee to resolve, one in which Iran sits and it can take up to 24 days to mediate, potentially giving Tehran the opportunity to remove or alter what the inspectors are looking for.

With any agreement there are positive aspects such as Richard Haas President, of the Council on Foreign Relations stated in an interview that like any other negotiated agreement there are things in it that are attractive and things in it that give one pause. On the attractive side are obviously the limits on the quality and quantity of centrifuges and the significant limits on the quality and quantity of enriched uranium that Iran is allowed to keep. There seem to be arrangements for inspections. It’s not quite clear whether there’s a difference between “where and when necessary,”as the president phrased it, and “anytime, anywhere,” but this is to be determined. But all in all, what the agreement appears to do is provide fifteen years in which Iran does not have nuclear weapons.

This agreement gives Iran, what Tehran had been seeking all along the lifting of sanctions and access to billions of dollars of much need capital it needs. The president believes they will use it to rebuild its shattered economy, but many are skeptical that it will go to its proxy forces across the Middle East region.

This also includes lifting economic sanctions against Quds Force commander Major General Qasem Soleimani who has provided military assistance to Hezbollah, Hamas, and is heavily involved in Iraq, plus has been responsible for the killing of hundreds of Americans in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

The most troubling aspect of this agreement is the lifting of an arms embargo after five years and eight years of a missile embargo. Iran is the leading state sponsor of terror around the world why would the president agree to this at the last minute?

Iran can now obtain the most sophisticated anti-ship missiles, therefore denying the U.S. Navy access to the Persian Gulf for the first time in over fifty years.

Finally, President Obama stated that “if Iran violates the deal, all of these sanctions will snap back into place. So there’s a very clear incentive for Iran to follow through, and there are very real consequences for a violation.”

This is false and misguided as Russian President Vladimir Putin has already publically stated once the United Nations lifts the sanctions, he will veto any attempt to re-establish sanctions.

No matter if the U.S. places sanctions back, it will be meaningless as the Europeans, Russia, and China will ignore U.S. sanctions and we will be left in the wind.

Again, the devil is in the details, but still there are numerous unanswered questions and the president will have a tough job selling this agreement. He may get the agreement in the long run, but all it did was create an arms race in the most unstable region of the world; the Middle East.

The Gulf States already are altering their relationship with America. “Iran made chaos in the Arab world and will extend further after the agreement, and the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries should reduce their confidence in America and turn their focus to Russia and China,” said Mohammed al-Mohya, the news anchor on the state-run Saudi Channel 1.

This agreement has already made the region more unstable not less.