Krauthammer: Too Late to Stop Iran Deal, ‘It’s Now International Law’

Obama ‘passed the Security Council resolution abolishing all of the previous ones, committing the United States as a country, with or without the Congress, to this deal’

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: "Look, these ideas are clever, the rally was a little late, as you said. This deal was done. It began long before it ever went to Congress. Obama went around the Congress and went first to the U.N. It's now international law. He passed the Security Council resolution abolishing all of the previous ones, committing the United States as a country, with or without the Congress, to this deal. So that's the problem. I'm not against what the House is trying to do but it's not going to work. The reason is, if it declares, as it probably will, that the Corker agreement is not fulfilled, Obama did not submit everything as required, the administration is simply going to ignore it. And who's got the tanks? Who is going to decide? Go to court and wait a couple of years on this? The administration will proceed regardless. The U.N. is going to act, which means the IAEA will report at the end of December after the Iran inspections itself, the IAEA will say it's been implemented and we're on the way. Already Europe has tons of delegations that has been into Tehran. This is not going to be stopped. I think what has to be done is to try to delegitimize the deal by at least having a resolution to oppose it, that a president in the future can say, 'it never had support and I will now tear it up.' Otherwise, nothing is going to get done."

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