Aaron David Miller Slams Iran Deal: ‘It’s a Business Deal’

‘Over time, you are also going to get a richer, bolder Iran with more influence in the region’

“This is neither, this deal is neither the historic catastrophe that its critics portray, nor is it the historic transformation that I think was implicit in some of the president's and Kerry's remarks. This is essentially a transaction. It's a business deal. In exchange for lifting billions of dollars in sanctions and hanging an open for business sign in Tehran, the United States will get a slower, smaller, more transparent, more easily constrained Iranian nuclear program probably for the next decade. But this is not a disarmament agreement. It's an arms control agreement. I would argue on balance the mullahs even though the president got a lot, I think the mullahs did one better… I'm not arguing that this deal is a catastrophe. All I'm suggesting is, we have to be real about what it is we've done. We are going to get a slower, smaller, more constrained Iranian nuclear power. But I suspect, over time, you're also going to get a richer, bolder Iran with more influence in the region. And at the end of the day, Alisyn -- and I guess, this was simply impossible, you're still going to be left with enough of a large nuclear infrastructure that should Iran want to weaponize, they will have the capacity to do so.” 

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