President Obama misled America Sunday when he said Iran doesn’t have enough enriched uranium to create a single nuclear bomb, Charles Krauthammer said tonight. After the Iran deal took effect this weekend, Obama said, “Today more than 98 percent of that stockpile has been shipped out of Iran, meaning Iran now doesn’t have enough material for even one bomb.”
“It sounds pretty good, but it is misleading,” Krauthammer said on Monday’s Special Report. “Number one, we allowed the Iranians to self-inspect. We have no idea if that was 98 percent because we don’t have a baseline. The IAEA was supposed to establish a baseline; it wasn’t allowed to.”
“Second of all, it’s being given the right to enrich,” he continued. ”The entire negotiation is a premised on the idea we’re going to lift sanctions if it stops enriching uranium. It retained a right, meaning it’s going to do it in the present and in the future.”
Krauthammer also warned the Obama Administration’s forgiving attitude toward Iran guarantees cheating: “We have no way of exerting any pressure on it if it cheats. And this administration has shown with the seizing of the sailors that it will do nothing to jeopardize this deal in the future, in calling out Iran if it cheats. It’s guaranteed to be cheated on.”
Krauthammer's Take: Iran Deal 'Guaranteed To Be Cheated On'