Showing posts with label Iran nuclear deal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran nuclear deal. Show all posts

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Memo to Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York -- Re: Iran Deal

Dear Senator Schumer,

Your Press Release dated 08.06.15 describes how you have read the recently-negotiated agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear program.  It explains your reasoning behind your decision to vote to disapprove the deal.

Respectfully, I think that your reasoning is self-defeating.

Regarding the negotiated program of inspections and validations, you find that it is better to have the deal over the next ten years than it is to not have it, and yet the opposite is true for the succeeding ten years.  So, on the merits of the agreement, it seems that you are neutral overall.

However, it is said that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Thursday, August 6, 2015

U.S.A. and Iran -- questions about the deal

Admittedly, my understanding of the intricacies of the "P5 + 1 and Iran Nuclear Deal" is imperfect -- which puts me in good and plentiful company because my guess is that not more than 1 in 10,000,000 people on the planet have a perfect understanding of this agreement.

After reading overviews of the agreement, doing some research, and absorbing the reasons that some have for opposing the agreement, a few straight-forward "backgrounder" questions came to mind.  Here are those questions (some with answers); they could be directed to anybody, but probably most especially to those in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives who are opposed to the deal or thinking about opposing it: