Attorney Alan Dershowitz Expresses Opposition To Iranian Nuclear Deal
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Attorney Alan Dershowitz has become an outspoken critic of the Iranian nuclear deal and is alleging that President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are hiding details of what the pact entails.
Dershowitz spoke with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT and raised the idea of a conspiracy to keep certain details from the public.
"I think we are now at a point where we can use the word cover up. I think there's been cover up by this administration of this side deal which the gives the Iranians the authority to investigate themselves. Can you imagine if Major League Baseball or football or hockey said we're going to test our athletes, but when you feel like it, bring in a sample."
He thinks it is suspicious that the Administration was unaware of details of the agreement recently reported by the Associated Press.
"I'm a loyal patriot who thinks this deal is really terrible, especially now that we're learning that Iran gets to, essentially, investigate itself according to this suppressed report that the President claims he never read, the Secretary of State claims he never read, but somehow, although the President and Secretary of State couldn't get access to it, newspapers got access to it."
Dershowitz concluded that the President's negotiating team was out smarted by the Iranians.
"We play Checkers against the Persians, who invented Chess. They checkmated our President and got him to accept a deal that he had previously said he would never accept. The problem with the deal is that we don't know what we don't know."