I believe history will look to the Iran nuclear agreement as a mistake as significant as the Munich Accords were to World War II. It gave Iran’s Islamic-Fascist dictators $150 billion in frozen assets with which to pursue their military and terrorist activities and to finance their nuclear arms program. It gave them the legal right to continue research and development of advanced centrifuges and heavy water – the only purpose of which is to produce nuclear weapons. It gave them legal access to the conventional arms market in five years and to ICBM’s in just 8 years. Its lack of verifiability with a regime notorious for breaking agreements is breathtaking in its naiveté or outright duplicity. And it undermined the Iranian opposition just when that opposition was about to boil over.
It also marked a surrender of the constitutional prerogative of the Senate to approve treaties. Driven by Democratic obstructionism in the Senate, Congress failed to forthrightly confront a rogue executive, first by abjectly surrendering its Constitutional prerogatives by passing the Corker Act and then failing to follow through even with this watered down alternative.