Media Refs Should Call Foul on Bogus Arguments Against Iran Deal
Robert Naiman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/iran-deal-media_b_7794882.html
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The following fact will be key: this multilateral negotiation, which was started by the George W. Bush administration, has always been about Iran's nuclear program and nothing else. It's not about Syria. It's not about Yemen. The Iran deal will not make you look five pounds thinner, as Gil Scott-Heron might have said.
You want a validator on this? How about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee? AIPAC published a list of five criteria for judging the deal. In the wake of the deal, AIPAC is standing by its list of criteria.
People will dispute whether the deal effectively meets AIPAC's stated criteria. People will dispute whether AIPAC's criteria were realistic criteria for "a good deal that eliminates every Iranian pathway to a nuclear weapon."
But here's what nobody can dispute: AIPAC's five criteria were all about Iran's nuclear program and nothing else.
http://www.aipac.org/~/media/Publications/Policy%20and%20Politics/AIPAC%20Analyses/One%20Pagers/Negotiating%20with%20Iran_5%20Requirements_Cover%20Sheet.pdf