Let’s see if this makes any sense. From Twitter on Tuesday, in the immediate hours after the U.S. and Iran agreed to some sort of deal supposedly limiting Iran’s nuclear development program — thus, these are immediate, non-poll-tested, non-filtered reactions:
Stephen Hayes @stephenfhayes The #IranDeal finalizes US shift from preventing an Iranian nuclear weapons to managing the process by which Iran goes nuclear.
Hassan Rouhani @HassanRouhani Upon #IranDeal implementation all sanctions will be lifted — not suspended. Otherwise,there was no need for 18-day round-the-clock #IranTalks
el Sooper ن @SooperMexican Obama says sanction relief staggered, conditional: @HassanRouhani says immediately OFF
Jake Sherman @JakeSherman Boehner doesn’t seem like he’s a fan of this Iran deal. Says “this deal is likely to fuel a nuclear arms race around the world.”
Bill Kristol @BillKristol “This deal cannot stand.”
Special @weeklystandard editorial: A Very Good Deal—for Iran.
Dan Merica @danmericaCNN Hillary Clinton was just asked about the Iran deal as she entered the Capitol today. “Good morning, good morning,” she said in response.
David Chalian @DavidChalian President Obama welcomes robust congressional debate on #IranDeal and issues veto threat within 90 seconds of each other.
Philip Klein @philipaklein Obama says 2/3 of centrifuges will be eliminated. So, that means ~ 6k will remain. WH original claimed it would be limited to 500-1500 tops.
Seung Min Kim @seungminkim Rubio weighs in on Iran: “Based on what we know thus far, I believe that this deal undermines our national security.”
Omri Ceren @cerenomri “Where necessary / when necessary” = a far cry from “anytime/anywhere.” Congress is going to want to know why they were lied to.
Michael Wilner @mawilner Senior administration official tells me: “We don’t think that anytime, anywhere inspections are feasible.”
Stephen Hayes @stephenfhayes Bottom line: With the #IranDeal, the Obama administration is giving vast power & money to the world’s leading state sponsor of terror.
Other immediate comments…
From Pres. Obama: “Today after two years of negotiation the United States, together with the international community, has achieved something that decades of animosity has not: a comprehensive long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”
And yet Sen. Tom Cotton calls it a “terrible, dangerous mistake which will pave Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon.”
Former Clinton administration State Dept. official, Jamie Rubin, called claims that the deal will lead to better Iran behavior “nonsense.”
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said it’s “a bad mistake of historic proportions.”
Gov. Scott Walker identified it as “one of the biggest disasters of the Obama-Clinton Doctrine.”
And MSNBC immediately reported that there is a “very angry reaction” in Israel over this deal.
These were just the immediate, initial reactions.
Easy to know what’s good and true and right? Is the truth clear? Make any sense?
Nope… not to me either.
Respectfully…
AR