OUTRAGEOUS – AT 9:25 A.M. ET:  The more we hear about the Iran deal, the worse it gets.  But this bit takes the prize for cynicism.  From the Washington Times: 

“If Iran violates the deal, all of these sanctions will snap back into place,” President Obama said in his White House statement on the nuclear agreement. He added, “we’ve built in a snap-back provision so we don’t have to go through lengthy negotiations at the U.N. to put the sanctions right back in place.”

But any inspections at Iranian military facilities to which Iran objects, and the “snap-back” re-imposition of United Nations sanctions would require the United States government to win the unanimous support of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy—ALL of them. This would be necessary to have the five votes required under the agreement’s Dispute Resolution Mechanism to override objections from Iran, Russia, and China. (See Articles 36-37 and Annex I Article 78). And, under the Treaty of Lisbon rules controlling the EU’s “Common Foreign and Security Policy,” key decisions on the CFSP require unanimous approval by ALL 28 MEMBERS of the European Union.

It may be true that “No one country could block a snap-back of sanctions,” as Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said, but no one country—not even the United States—could re-impose them either unless all of Europe went along.

COMMENT:  There will be no re-imposition of sanctions.  The sanctions regime is dead.  Europe, especially Germany, will have substantial commerce with Iran, and will not give it up. 

We have lost substantially in every way in our negotiations with Iran.  Americans in decades to come will likely pay a price.  But why should Obama care?  He's a man of the world.

July 23,  2015