La Salle Professor: Upcoming Iranian Deal Going To Be A Bad Deal
WPHT midday host, Dom Giordano spoke with Ed Turzanski, the John Templeton Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a Political Science Professor at La Salle University about impending Iranian nuclear deal and Turzanski said that it is going to be bad.
"The administration has a passion to do a deal, no matter how bad, and keep in mind if you want a deal badly, you'll get it the way you want it. You'll get a bad deal."
Turzanski feels that no matter how the Obama administration praises the deal, in the end it is just going to be "kicking the can down the road" to the following administration.
"The administration has figured out that this game is so far down the road, it would require principled uses of force going beyond sanctions, so we might actually be in a shooting war with the Iranians, 'it's not worth it, let's let them have this capacity and hope against hope that they won't develop the bomb. Well, that's simply naïve…The Iranians are not to be trusted and this fits into a broader scheme in which the administration's policy vis-à-vis Iran, has everyone bewildered especially the Israelis and American's allies in the region."
He expects that any upcoming deal will not eliminate Iran's nuclear program or scale it back, but just slow down their progress.
"There is no scaling back of the Iranian program. The administration's default position is to say 'we're going to try and slow down their progress and not worry about all the ground that they've made up.' In this administration, the Iranian nuclear program has experienced tremendous advances…We will negotiate as if that will make bad news go away."
While it is required for all treaties to be ratified by congress, Turzanski does not expect that to happen this time.
"It certainly walks, talks, and quacks like a treaty, so you would presume that it would have to be submitted for Senate ratification, but keep in mind that…President has shown that if he doesn't like congress' point of view, he will do whatever he wants to do and dare congress to stop him."
