Hosanna!

"This comprehensive solution would enable Iran to fully enjoy its right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes under the relevant articles of the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty] in conformity with its obligations therein. This comprehensive solution would involve a mutually defined enrichment program with practical limits and transparency measures to ensure the peaceful nature of the program."
G5+1-Iran Negotiation excerpt

The UN Security Council since 2006 has on six separate occasions called on Iran to halt its enrichment program. Is it now in a state of befuddled confusion over its previous rulings? The deal just signed between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the West over that very same nuclear program concedes to the Republic the entitlement of continuing to enrich uranium.

In whose best interests did the former refusal become a dispensable obligation to protect the world against the aspirations of a malevolent theocracy which has never made a secret of its power aspirations and threats against others?

John Kerry, the American Secretary of State has stated, in interpreting the above provision, that unequivocally: "No, there is no right to enrich." Whereas Iran's new President, Hassan Rouhani, is even more unequivocal: "No matter what interpretations are given, Iran's right to enrichment has been recognized in the text of the agreement."

And a neutral expert, Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy has no problems agreeing with Mr. Rouhani's interpretation. "Few commentators have focused on what may be [the deal's] most consequential aspect -- an apparent promise that, at the end of the process, Iran may eventually be able to enrich as much uranium as it wants, to whatever level it wants" he responds.

"Washington and its partners are on record now, agreeing that the final accord will allow Iran to enrich uranium, putting the last nail in the coffin of six United Nations Security Council resolutions calling on Iran to suspend its enrichment activities."

"I see the deal as a deceptively pleasant way station on the long and bloody road that is the American retreat from the Middle East. We shredded the six United Nations Security Council resolutions that ordered the Islamic Republic to abandon all enrichment and reprocessing activities."
Michael Doran, analyst, Brookings Institution

Enriched uranium is key to producing nuclear bombs. While the deal signed on Sunday -- that has so pleased the Iranian theocracy and so delighted the co-signers, guided by the American Obama administration -- limits Iran to enriching uranium to 5% for six months, representing a level sufficient for nuclear fuel, yet below the 90% required needed for nuclear weapons, it has been pointed out that all Iran needs is a few weeks' headwind to ramp up enrichment to nuclear-arms levels.

Iran achieved far more than temporary relief with the promised release of $7-billion in sanctioned funds. It achieved time, breathing space, and this enterprise represents something that Iran has embarked upon time and again, making promises it never means to keep in exchange for a bit of trusting patience from the West, to enable it to get on with its underground activities. And then it delightedly murmurs "fooled you" yet again.

There's a third advance that Iran achieved in that hard bargaining that the West was so anxious to conclude in a manner that would provide them with the opportunity to righteously claim that speaking is preferential to war-making and they did the right thing. Iran has been given the international recognition it has long sought; world powers assembled for the specific purpose of paying homage to its worrisome plans; long-range world domination, through short-range power of threats.

Once the threats are adequately backed by the presence of nuclear devices propelled by long-range ballistic missiles, all of which advanced technology is within Iran's means -- belying her straitened financial circumstances, since these technical advances are all very costly to achieve -- then the threat it poses to its neighbours, and eventually to the wider international community will have been achieved. Will it stop there?

Ask the Grand Ayatollah. He will smile and keep his counsel.

Again, Iran has not been bashful about promising to destroy Israel. And Israel's response? "This permanent agreement has to lead to one result: dismantling the Iranian nuclear military capacity. And I repeat here my commitment to prevent them from getting the ability to do this." This was not a statement uttered by President Obama: "Huge challenges remain, but we cannot close the door on diplomacy", he said.