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Accord recognizes Iran's right to enrich uranium and thus cancels 20 years worth of hard won U.N. Security Council Resolutions ordering Iran to stop enriching uranium.
Agreement does NOT even stop ( nor even allow inspections of ) Iranian work to weaponize it's nuclear program.
Iran is allowed to continue developing intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering Iranian nuclear weapons from Iran to the United States.
Iran is also allowed to continue to manufacture more advanced uranium enrichment equipment ( centrifuge manufacturing and testing ) needed only if you are planing to build hundreds nuclear warheads, existing numbers, and less capable types, of Iranian centrifuges are more than adequate to meet Irans stated purpose of making nuclear fuel for it's reactors.
Iran is allowed to continue developing nuclear weapons warheads that will fit on top of it's existing medium range ballistic missiles ( already capable of striking all of western Europe ) without inspection by U.N. nuclear inspectors of the military labs where that work is being done.
Former U.S. Ambassador to U.N., John Bolton, writing in Weekly Standard Magazine wrote:
This interim agreement is badly skewed from America’s perspective. Iran retains its full capacity to enrich uranium, thus abandoning a decade of Western insistence and Security Council resolutions that Iran stop all uranium-enrichment activities. Allowing Iran to continue enriching, and despite modest (indeed, utterly inadequate) measures to prevent it from increasing its enriched-uranium stockpiles and its overall nuclear infrastructure, lays the predicate for Iran fully enjoying its “right” to enrichment in any “final” agreement. Indeed, the interim agreement itself acknowledges that a “comprehensive solution” will “involve a mutually defined enrichment program.” This is not, as the Obama administration leaked before the deal became public, a “compromise” on Iran’s claimed “right” to enrichment. This is abject surrender by the United States.
In exchange for superficial concessions, Iran achieved three critical breakthroughs. First, it bought time to continue all aspects of its nuclear-weapons program the agreement does not cover (centrifuge manufacturing and testing; centrifuge manufacturing and testing; weaponization research and fabrication; and its entire ballistic missile program). Indeed, given that the interim agreement contemplates periodic renewals, Iran may have gained all of the time it needs to achieve weaponization not of simply a handful of nuclear weapons, but of dozens or more.
Bradley Klapper, Mathew Lee and Julie Pace, Associated Press wrote:
The United States and Iran secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year, in a high-stakes diplomatic gamble by the Obama administration that paved the way for the historic deal sealed early Sunday in Geneva aimed at slowing Tehran's nuclear program, The Associated Press has learned.
The discussions were kept hidden even from America's closest friends ( Great Britain, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Israel ), including its negotiating partners and Israel, until two months ago, and that may explain how the nuclear accord appeared to come together so quickly after years of stalemate and fierce hostility between Iran and the West.
... explains ... tensions between the U.S. and France ...
... and with Israel, which is furious about the agreement ...