Yesterday it was the American Jewish Committee, today, Thursday, Aug. 6, the American Jewish Congress, another centrist American Jewish organization, concluded that it could not support the nuclear agreement entered into by the U.S. administration and its partners in the P5+1 with Iran.
The AJCongress leadership explained its deliberative process, and then concluded that it could not support the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The reason for this conclusion is that they do not believe the agreement contains the necessary “robust and intrusive inspections on all Iranian facilities in a timely and comprehensive manner.”
Without that essential component, the agreement will not prevent the Iranian regime from developing nuclear weapons, the AJCongress believes.
“Unfortunately, it no longer can be said that the U.S. has erected a roadblock to every avenue Iran might use to become a nuclear power,” the statement read.
Even if Iran does not cheat, at the conclusion of the agreement which “has a life expectancy of 10-15 years,” Iran “would be in a position to make a dash toward nuclear capability.”
Translating that dire reality into personal terms, the AJCongress statement explains, “the U.S. is willing to say to children in elementary school today that by the time they reach college, they may be living in a world where the regime of the Ayatollahs, which continues to denounce the United States as its mortal enemy, may well be a nuclear country.”
AJCongress President Jack Rosen said “The burden of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon must not be passed on to our children and grandchildren.”