SIX DAYS TO GO – AT 8:19 A.M. ET:  The deadline to complete a nuclear arrangement with Iran is six days away.  It doesn't look as if the sides are close, but never underestimate the willingness of Barack Obama to make enough concessions to get a piece of paper.  From Fox:

The United States and its allies are willing to offer Iran state-of-the-art nuclear equipment if Tehran agrees to pare down its atomic weapons program as part of a final nuclear agreement, a draft document has revealed.

The confidential paper, obtained by the Associated Press, has dozens of bracketed text where disagreements remain. Technical cooperation is the least controversial issue at the talks, and the number of brackets suggest the sides have a ways to go, not only on that topic but also more contentious disputes, with less than a week until the June 30 deadline for a deal.

However, the scope of the help now being offered in the draft may displease U.S. congressional critics who already argue that Washington has offered too many concessions at the negotiations.

The draft, titled "Civil Nuclear Cooperation," promises to supply Iran with light-water nuclear reactors instead of its nearly completed heavy-water facility at Arak, which would produce enough plutonium for several bombs a year if completed as planned.

COMMENT:  It is such a farce.  The idea of Iran having any nuclear capability is frightening, but apparently not to the Obamans, who live in the world of the left – every country has its own "validity" and its own legitimate "grievances." 

A wise American strategy would be to pull out of the talks, rejecting Iranian demands, and stating that we would look to alternative means of bringing Iran to accept our demands.  That means sanctions.  It means not taking military force off the table. 

However, there is no chance of that strategy being implemented.  It goes against every grain of Obama's being. 

June 24,  2015