This week the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman denounced the US “fact sheet” on the Iran agreement as a misrepresentation. Yesterday, 27 November, Foreign Minister Zarif clarified the situation, obliquely. Zarf said the capacity at the Arak plutonium nuclear reactor construction site is not going to increase. “It means no new nuclear fuel will be produced and no new installations will be installed, but construction will continue there,” Zarif told Iran’s parliament in translated comments broadcast on Iran’s Press TV. Zarif also said that uranium enrichment at the Natanz and Fordow facilities will continue at levels around 3.5-5 percent purity, but the facilities’ capacities will not be expanded.
(Fox News) The aftermath of the deal struck early Sunday in Geneva has been marked by confusion. According to Iranian media, the country’s Foreign Ministry is now claiming that the White House put out an invalid fact sheet about the agreement.
When asked about this, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said: “In the interim accord, the Arak reactor is specifically targeted and the end of all work at this reactor. In the agreement and the text, which has been approved by the Iranian authorities, the Arak reactor is clearly targeted.”
Basic contract law in US jurisprudence stipulates no agreement exists when there is no meeting of the minds of the contracting parties, regardless of the words of the agreement. The absence of a meeting of the minds, i.e., the existence of different interpretations of terms, is prima facie evidence that no agreement exists.
Promotes Bad Policy to try and take attention
away from Obamacare with “success” in IranThat is what appears to have taken place in Geneva – two sides used the same words in English, but meant different things. In short, there was no agreement at Geneva.
The strongest evidence of sharp legal practice is the US “fact sheet.” In almost no significant substantive respect, the fact sheet fails to correspond to the actual four-page agreement. Whoever wrote that fact sheet should be fired because it makes assertions about Iranian undertakings that are factual misrepresentations. Of course we know that nobody will be fired because that’s not how the Obama Administration works. Likely the writer was a crony of the people who designed and built the ObamaCare Website.
For example, Iran did not agree to freeze construction at Arak. Iran agreed not to expand Arak beyond existing plans and the US agreed to that, according to the Iranians. The US fact sheet, however, says Iran agreed to freeze construction at Arak, the plutonium producing reactor. This is a pivotal issue about which there is no agreement.
How Frigging Stupid is the American Government?
You don’t have to hold your breath because I’m going to tell you.
Yesterday, the US said that construction at Arak does not violate the agreement. The US statement indicates the Iranian interpretation is the accurate interpretation, not the fact sheet. It also means the Iranians gave up nothing at Arak because that nuclear site will be under construction far beyond the six month time term of the agreement.
Iran agreed to not expand its capacity to enrich, meaning it agreed to not add more centrifuges. It did not agree to not use its existing centrifuges, as the US fact sheet contends. It agreed to not expand its nuclear program, but did not agree to not continue is development under existing capacity limits. The US fact sheet indicates it agreed to halt nuclear development.
The actual agreement requires no “roll back” of the Iranian nuclear program, though the US fact sheet indicates it does.
These inconsistencies are the signs of a rushed job. If the White House fact sheet represents the US understanding of the terms of the agreement, there is no agreement because the Iranians have an entirely different understanding. They got everything they wanted and sanctions relief. That explains the Iranian declarations of a diplomatic victory and the celebrations in Tehran.
Odd that the Iranians celebrated new missile technology this week. Almost as if they were suddenly able to afford to purchase this. I'm sure the Iranians have much to thank Obama for this week. Many billions of things.
A day of thanksgiving in Iran.
In other words, we gave away the farm AGAIN!!! Damn them…
President ding ding seems to have done it again. He screws up EVERYTHING he touches.
Yes, we did. On the orders of the Commander in Chief.
After a while, you have to ask yourself which are bone-ups and which are intentional.
"If you like your nuclear weapons program, you can keep it…"
PERIOD!
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