The Iran Nuclear Deal and Wendy Sherman

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Subject: The Iran Nuclear Deal and Wendy Sherman
From: ReadingLiberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
Date: Mon, January 25, 2021 1:32 pm MST
To: The Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA) Working Group
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Dear Friends,

For the sake of good order, this is a record of our consideration this morning of whether to launch one of our Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail Campaigns against the Senate confirmation of Wendy Sherman as Deputy Secretary of State. Wendy Sherman was the “lead negotiator” on the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal.

We have already written on January 20 Inauguration Day to President Biden on the subject of “Reforming the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) To Prevent A Nuclear Holocaust in the Middle East.”

A copy of that letter is available for download in Section 1 of our website at viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2021&sid=0efe920f5 ... 12dc1bccf1 and in Section 8 of our website at viewtopic.php?f=619&t=2022&sid=0efe920f ... 12dc1bccf1.

By way of background, we decided to send our plea to President Biden as a simple letter rather than as an e-mail campaign because our organization has achieved such visibility/effectiveness over the years that simply posting the letter on our bulletin board (even though we sent the original by FedEx overnight) would immediately bring it to his attention (or at least the attention of his primary foreign-policy advisers).

As so often happens, Foreign Affairs Magazine almost immediately published on January 24 a summary supporting jumping back into the Iran Nuclear Deal. The summary is the first attachment to this e-mail.

We have no “inside information” about whether their Jan 24 “summary” was a reaction to our letter to President Biden. However, this sort of thing (regardless of what organization seems to be reacting to us and the lightning speed with which the seeming reactions occur) happens so often, it is hard to believe that they are coincidental.

[The second attachment to this e-mail is a 2018 Foreign Affairs article written by Wendy Sherman which was referenced in the Jan 24 Foreign Affairs “summary” – both of which defend the Iran Nuclear Deal.]


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Observations about the Jan 24 Foreign Affairs “Summary”


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The second paragraph of the “Summary” quotes Wendy Sherman as saying –

“The Iran deal was not perfect” [but it provided] “the best possible assurance that Iran would never obtain a nuclear weapon.”

The truth, as stated in our letter to President Biden, is that the Iran Nuclear Deal “guarantees Iran nuclear weapons by 2030” and this was “recognized from the start.”

So Wendy Sherman’s “Washington speak” that the Iran Nuclear Deal was “the best possible assurance that Iran would never obtain a nuclear weapon” means that IN WENDY SHERMAN’S JUDGMENT it was NOT possible to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.


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The last sentence of the “Summary” states –

“The question now is not only how to revive the 2015 agreement but ‘what kind of relationship the United States would like to have with Iran in this century.’”

Our letter to President Biden agrees that the question now is what kind of relationship we would like to have with –

(1) A country “that since 1984….has headed the list of the world’s “State Sponsors of Terrorism” (a list that the U.S. State Department is required to maintain under Sec. 6(j) of the Arms Export Control Act and under Sec. 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act and a list it took Iran only 5 years after the Shah was deposed to head continuously for the last 37 years),”

(2) Even worse, a country whose “behavior has grown continually worse (rather than better) in the wake of the Iran Nuclear Deal,”

(3) And worst of all, a country whose acquisition of nuclear weapons AS GUARANTEED BY THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL will cause the “Gulf State Six” to acquire their own nuclear weapons which, in turn, will lead in our judgment to a nuclear war that could easily wipe out the 50% of the world’s population which is downwind from the Persian Gulf and wipe out the 50% of the world’s oil supply that comes from, or downwind from, the Persian Gulf.


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Wendy Sherman’s Nomination as Deputy Secretary of State

I did not hear any objection this morning to my position that we should NOT oppose Wendy Sherman’s nomination as Deputy Secretary of State because –

(1) President Biden is on notice of the dangers of agreeing to another Iran Nuclear Deal and MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL if he opts for any deal that does not satisfy our criteria;

(2) President Biden is capable of providing “guard rails” for Wendy Sherman and his other negotiators; and

(3) Denying President Biden his nominee would provide a convenient excuse for a failure to honor our plea.


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If anyone believes the foregoing is inaccurate, please let me know by the end of the day.

Sincerely,

John Karls

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This is an administrative post to establish coherent ordering of postings in this Section 8 –

FIRST, The Iran Nuclear-Deal (aka JCPOA) Working Group

SECOND, any additional postings about the Iran Nuclear-Deal Working Group in chronological order

THIRD, Speaker Pelosi’s Parliamentary (vs. Presidential) Form of Government Working Group

FOURTH, any additional postings about the Speaker Pelosi Working Group in chronological order