200 Retired U.S. Generals/Admirals Write Letter Urging Congress to Reject
Iran Nuclear Deal
Deal Won't Stop Nukes, Will Increase, Terrorism
Zionist Organization of America 27 August 2015
[For copy of letter with all 200 names
http://bit.ly/1JAk6bL ]

TEXT OF LETTER FROM 200 RETIRED GENERALS/ADMIRALS

Dear Representatives Boehner and Pelosi and Senators McConnell and Reid:

As you know, on July 14, 2015, the United States and five other nations
announced that a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has been reached
with Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. In our judgment as
former senior military officers, the agreement will not have that effect.
Removing sanctions on Iran and releasing billions of dollars to its regime
over the next ten years is inimical to the security of Israel and the Middle
East. There is no credibility within JCPOA's inspection process or the
ability to snap back sanctions once lifted, should Iran violate the
agreement. In this and other respects, the JCPOA would threaten the national
security and vital interests of the United States and, therefore, should be
disapproved by the Congress.

The agreement as constructed does not "cut off every pathway" for Iran to
acquire nuclear weapons. To the contrary, it actually provides Iran with a
legitimate path to doing that simply by abiding by the deal. JCPOA allows
all the infrastructure the Iranians need for a nuclear bomb to be preserved
and enhanced. Notably, Iran is allowed to: continue to enrich uranium;
develop and test advanced centrifuges; and continue work on its Arak
heavy-water plutonium reactor. Collectively, these concessions afford the
Iranians, at worst, a ready breakout option and, at best, an incipient
nuclear weapons capability a decade from now.

The agreement is unverifiable. Under the terms of the JCPOA and a secret
side deal (to which the United States is not privy), the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be responsible for inspections under such
severe limitations as to prevent them from reliably detecting Iranian
cheating. For example, if Iran and the inspectors are unable to reach an
accommodation with respect to a given site, the result could be at least a
24-day delay in IAEA access. The agreement also requires inspectors to
inform Iran in writing as to the basis for its concerns about an undeclared
site, thus further delaying access. Most importantly, these inspections do
not allow access to Iranian military facilities, the most likely location of
their nuclear weapons development efforts. In the JCPOA process, there is
substantial risk of U.S. intelligence being compromised, since the IAEA
often relies on our sensitive data with respect to suspicious and/or
prohibited activity.

While failing to assure prevention of Iran's nuclear weapons development
capabilities, the agreement provides by some estimates $150 billion dollars
or more to Iran in the form of sanctions relief. As military officers, we
find it unconscionable that such a windfall could be given to a regime that
even the Obama administration has acknowledged will use a portion of such
funds to continue to support terrorism in Israel, throughout the Middle East
and globally, whether directly or through proxies. These actions will be
made all the more deadly since the JCPOA will lift international embargoes
on Iran's access to advanced conventional weapons and ballistic missile
technology.

In summary, this agreement will enable Iran to become far more dangerous,
render the Mideast still more unstable and introduce new threats to American
interests as well as our allies. In our professional opinion, far from being
an alternative to war, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action makes it
likely that the war the Iranian regime has waged against us since 1979 will
continue, with far higher risks to our national security interests.
Accordingly, we urge the Congress to reject this defective accord.

Sincerely,

An original copy of the letter with all signatories, may be found here.
http://bit.ly/1JAk6bL
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