Netanyahu is not the only opponent of Iran deal

Benny Avni:

The political fireworks over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress next week are a distraction from two larger truths:

1) Netanyahu’s opposition is every bit as leery of the rumored Iranian nuclear deal as Bibi is.

2) That deal looks ever less like an accord that will stop Tehran from becoming a nuclear power — and more and more like a glide path to exactly that result.

It’s no longer clear that President Obama’s diplomacy is even trying to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power, but only to (maybe) delay it.

If leaked outlines of the looming agreement are correct, it’s a prescription for disaster — and sure to launch a nuclear-arms race in the world’s most volatile region.

Fine, Secretary of State John Kerry contends that the details are yet to be finalized. “The policy is: Iran will not get a nuclear weapon,” Kerry said in a congressional hearing Tuesday.

He added, in an apparent barb at Bibi, “Anyone running around right now, jumping to say ‘we don’t like the deal,’ or this or that, doesn’t know what the deal is. There is no deal yet.”

Problem is, word keeps leaking out on just what the administration is seeking in the talks — namely, to assure that Iran doesn’t immediately “get” a bomb, while agreeing that it can have the capability to be a year from getting it.

Sorry: Letting Tehran reach even that “threshold” stage would launch a mad arms race in the Mideast.
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It seems to be more a deal for deals sake than something to achieve blocking Iranian nukes which would be used to terrorize its neighbors and eventually the US.  It is not just Israelis who don't like the current proposal.  Besides others in the Middle East, there are plenty of skeptics in the US who don't trust Obama to make a deal with Iran.  He has demonstrated himself as the most inept negotiator to ever hold the office.  From the execrable  Bergdahl deal to the Cuba deal he specializes in giving away the store to adversaries while refusing to negotiate on domestic policy differences.