Don't Trust but Verify

Ronald Reagan usde to like to quote an old russian proverb that said "Trust but Verify." The deal announced today bu Iran and Turkey under which Iran will send lightly enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for more highly enriched uranium to be used in a medical facility requires the modification of that old slogan. Right now, the only sane response to this deal is "Don't Trust, but Verify". There is no reason to believe that Iran is sending all of its enriched uranium out of the country. Nor is there any reason to believe that Iran is ending its quest for nuclear weapons. Indeed, there is not even any reason to believe that the Islamicist head of the Turkish government is not just covering for the Iranians. There has to be verification that the "deal" actually removes all of the Iranian uranium that has been partially prepared for bomb making. Without such verification, this deal is nothing more than a stunt designed to slow the process towards sanctions (as if that could get any slower).

I hope that Obama, Clinton and the Obamacrats do not support this deal even tentatively. there needs to be an immediate and persistant demand for verification. Otherwise we will all wake up in one or two years to the news that Iran has the bomb. That will change the world.