Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States between 1981 and 2005 has written the below listed damning column, in which he compares the Iranian Nuclear deal to the failed nuclear weapons deal with North Korea---and concludes it will have even worse consequences.  The reader doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to fully understand—Obama is knowingly entering into a very bad and DANGEROUS deal for the America people. 

Prince Bandar stated, with regard to the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement that Obama has damned the United States with, “the strategic foreign policy analysis, the national intelligence information, and America’s allies in the region’s intelligence, all predict not only the same outcome of the North Korean nuclear deal, but (it will be) worse---with billions of dollars that Iran will have access to.”

It is now obvious that Saudi Arabia, in self-defense, will develop its own Nuclear Weapons Program, and other pro-western Middle East allies like Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Kuwait, etc. will follow suite.  By entering into the flawed Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement, Obama has assured Iran that it will be able to develop nuclear weapons, and by doing so he has created a nuclear weapons arms race in the Middle East.

Obama has been working closely with the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, a terrorist regime that has been killing Americans for 35 years, and is determined to destroy the United States and Israel.  Unfortunately, SECRET provisions that no member of Congress will ever be permitted to read has been agreed to by Obama.  The SECRET provisions of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement is another attempt by Obama to bypass the US Congress, just like he bypassed the will of the American voters with the SECRET Fast Track Trade Promotional Law(TPP).

The Republican leadership in the House and Senate struck another deal with Obama to allow Obama to refer to another “International Treaty” as an agreement, this time with regard to the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement.  They previously struck a deal with Obama on the SECRET TPP,.800 page, Law that very few members of Congress read before they voted for it.  Obama is now able to be push the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement  thru Congress, because of a previous agreement with the Republican leadership.   

Instead of abiding by the US Constitution and demanding the Iranian International Nuclear Weapons Agreement be treated like what it really is—an “International Treaty”, requiring a 2/3rd vote in the US Senate for approval, before it could be agreed to with Iran, the Republican leadership  instead agreed with Obama to turn that provision around.  Now, in order for Congress to “defeat” the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement, it will, instead require a 2/3rd vote of the Congress “to defeat it, not to approve it”—it is a betrayal of American citizens and unconstitutional..  

It has been over 3 weeks since the TPP was signed into law, the American people are still being prevented from reading the contents of that International Treaty, being referred to as an agreement by the Obama administration.  The Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement also has SECRET provisions in the provisions on inspections; only Iran and the UN’s IAEA inspectors are being permitted to read those provisions, no member of the US Congress is being allowed to read those SECRET inspection provisions.  

The Iranian military’s progress on nuclear weapons development is being excluded from review in the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement, so that the analysis of Iran’s develop of nuclear weapons can’t be evaluated or predicted in the future.  In addition, at the Iranian Parchim Military Nuclear Weapons Research and Development Facility, the IAEA is being prevented from collecting soil samples, only Iranians will be permitted to collect and test soil samples, so progress in Iran’s nuclear weapons development program at that Iranian R &D military facility will be kept hidden from the US.

Any member of Congress who votes for the very dangerous Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement that Obama approved, an agreement that will arm Iran with nuclear weapons with which to strike the United States and its Middle East allies, should be defeated in 2016, or be removed from office by a recall election. 

 

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By Adam Taylor   
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan seen at his palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in June 2008.  (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States between 1981 and 2005, has written a damning column in which he compares the Iran nuclear deal to the failed nuclear deal with North Korea -- and concludes it will have even worse consequences.

Writing for the London-based Arabic news Web site Elaph, Badar suggests that President Obama is knowingly making a bad deal, while President Bill Clinton had made a deal with North Korea with the best intentions and the best information he had. The new deal will "wreak havoc" in the Middle East, which is already destabilized due to Iranian actions, Bandar writes.

Writing about the failed deal with North Korea, which was agreed in 1994 and collapsed in 2003, Bandar says, "it turned out that the strategic foreign policy analysis was wrong and there was a major intelligence failure." He added that if Clinton had known the full picture, "I am absolutely confident he would not have made that decision."

The Saudi royal then contrasts this with the present situation with Iran, "where the strategic foreign policy analysis, the national intelligence information, and America’s allies in the region's intelligence all predict not only the same outcome of the North Korean nuclear deal but worse – with the billions of dollars that Iran will have access to."

Bandar says Obama is smart enough to understand this but that he is ideologically willing to accept collateral damage because he believes he is right.

The United States and North Korea signed the Agreed Framework in 1994, after North Korea announced its intention to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Under the agreement, North Korea committed to freezing its nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid, causing significant controversy in the United States. The next U.S. administration, led by President George W. Bush, took a much more aggressive stance on the agreement, and in 2002 it confronted North Korea with accusations that it had been attempting a clandestine uranium-enrichment program.

In response, North Korea restarted its nuclear program, and the country withdrew from the NPT in 2003. Subsequent attempts to reach an agreement over nuclear weapons have failed. North Korea conducted its first nuclear test in 2006 and is currently believed to possess around 10 to 16 nuclear weapons (exact estimates vary). Experts say it is working to improve upon the size and sophistication of its nuclear arsenal.

Bandar is far from the first to contrast the situation in 1994 and now: The failure of the talks with North Korea has been a specter hanging over the talks with Iran.

However, there's disagreement over how to interpret any lessons taught by the failure of the North Korean deal: As The Post's Glenn Kessler has written, the Agreed Framework may have failed, but it did stall North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Analysts have pointed out that the two situations have many differences. The Carnegie Endowment's George Perkovich, for example, has argued that Iran has stronger incentives to stick to a deal than North Korea ever did.

Bandar is a major voice in Saudi foreign affairs. He was the longest-serving Saudi ambassador to Washington and headed the Saudi intelligence services between 2012 and 2014. His conclusion will carry weight in some circles: "People in my region now are relying on God’s will, and consolidating their local capabilities and analysis with everybody else except our oldest and most powerful ally," he writes.

The Saudi prince says the new Iran deal and other developments in the region have led him to conclude that a phrase first used by Henry Kissinger – “America’s enemies should fear America, but America’s friends should fear America more" – is correct.

Adam Taylor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. Originally from London, he studied at the University of Manchester and Columbia University.