Bret Baier: National political correspondent of National
Public Radio and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer.
Charles-
Krauthammer: Well, you can see what happened today by the
jubilation in the face of the Iranian foreign minister when he announced what
had been agreed to. The bottom-line are two things. Iran Is promised a total
lifting of sanctions, that’s UN, EU, United States, everywhere. We are not sure about the timing but it could
be as early as June and that would supercharge the Iranian economy, will strengthen
the regime, will get it tens of billions of dollars with which not only to
build its nuclear facilities, but to use for the proxy wars around the Middle
East. That’s number one. It gets its
economy back.
Bret Baier : But let me interrupt you. The administration
says it does not happen until it passes a threshold, in other words they meet
the requirements, then the sanctions get lifted.
Krauthammer: They are completely unclear what the requirements
are. It is possible that when they sign the agreement in June there will be a
huge relief of sanctions and when Obama speaks about snapping them back, if
the Iranians are cheating, there is not chance in the world that the Chinese, or the Russians or even the Europeans are going to snap on sanctions again.
We would be acting alone, we would be completely isolated.
So, number one, they are going to get their
economy back and that’s all they really wanted.
But the second, the most astonishing thing is
that in return, they are not closing a single nuclear facility.
Their entire nuclear infrastructure is intact.
The soundbite you showed of the president, and that was in
December, no more than a year and a half ago, he talked about you don’t need
the Fordow facility, they are keeping it, it’s not going to close, they don’t
need the Arak reactor, they are going to keep it, it will be "updated". And
lastly, they don’t need the advanced centrifuges – they are going to be developing
new ones in the Fordow reactor. So they
are going to have the entire infrastructure in place either for a breakout
after the agreement expires or when they have enough sanctions relief and they
want to cheat and to breakout on their own,
