Ted Cruz: We Need to Invoke the UN Snapback on Iran—Before It's Too Late

[libertybele]

We Need to Invoke the UN Snapback on Iran—Before It's Too Late

Ted Cruz , Republican senator, Texas

Of the many dangerous myths used to sell the catastrophic 2015 Obama-Biden Iran nuclear deal to the American people, the most pernicious was the idea that the deal was "just" about nuclear weapons. The deal was, in fact, far more significant in scope. Because of a ticking provision in the deal, Iran will soon be empowered to purchase billions of dollars of conventional weapons from countries like China and Russia. In fact, those arms sales are already in motion.

No American administration should ever have contemplated, let alone agreed, to a scenario in which our most powerful rivals are able to sell billions of weapons to one of our most dangerous enemies. The Iranian regime is brutal, oppressive and tyrannical. It finances and exports terror, and openly threatens all-out war while seeking weapons that could incinerate American cities with a single flash of light. When the ayatollah says "death to America" and "death to Israel," he means it.

Yet according to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2231, the resolution that endorsed the Iran deal, a decade-old UN arms embargo against Iran is set to be lifted in October. Thankfully, the Trump administration is moving to prevent that expiration.

Under the deal, the ayatollah accepted limited and temporary restrictions on Iran's nuclear weapons program. However, in return, UNSCR 2231 forever abolished all six previous UN Security Council resolutions against Iran that had been passed in response to the full range of Iran's malign activities, including terrorism, ballistic missile development and its nuclear weapons program. Those concessions included the arms embargo, which was put on a five-year expiration clock........

https://www.newsweek.com/we-need-invoke-un-snapback-iranbefore-its-too-late-opinion-1525424

[Smokin Joe]

Some say that Iran is not significantly violating the nuclear deal, or that it's not their fault because the U.S. reimposed sanctions on Iran. But Iran has admitted to violating the deal, those violations have been confirmed by the UN's nuclear watchdog and regardless—as then-Secretary of State Kerry confirmed in writing to the Senate in 2015—the U.S. has "full discretion to determine what is and is not" a violation that triggers the snapback.

Am I the only one who hears the faint echoes of "Peace in our time" and has a dim vision of Lord Chamberlain holding a worthless pact aloft?

After all, Europe knew Hitler was violating the terms of the Armistice of 1919, building an army and an air force unequaled in the world, yet they chose to ignore the terms of the very pact they had imposed.

The concessions they made set half the world on fire.

Here we are again, wondering if anything will be learned from those dark and darkening pages of history shriveling in the fires of ignorance, preoccupied with problems at home.

The question remains of whether we will turn a blind eye toward those both at home and abroad who would revel in the opportunity to destroy this country and feast off its carcass, or whether we will have the National Will to take the steps needed to halt these threats while they are budding.

The future of this nation depends on this.

[RetBobbyMI]

Come on Ted. Either your in the UN or your our. Quit straddling the fence.