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14 September 17 • 2015
O
n Sept 9, Democrats in the
U.S. Senate successfully filibus-
tered the bill disapproving of
President Obama's pact with Iran —
which means the nuclear agreement will
never come up for a vote in the Senate.
Forty-one votes were needed
by the president's supporters, and
they received 42. Both Michigan
Democratic senators, Debbie Stabenow
and Gary Peters, voted with the presi-
dent to block Senate consideration of
the Iran deal. This relieves the presi-
dent from having to use his veto power
to put his plan into effect.
Six days earlier, on Sept. 3, the White
House made its case for the Iran deal
at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield as two Obama administration
officials laid out the terms and answered
questions for a crowd of 60 people.
"It's been an issue
of great concern to
many Jewish people
in this country, and
it's a concern that
we understand and
appreciate:' said Matt
0 Nosanchuk, Obama
Matt
administration liai-
Nosanchuk
son to the American
Jewish community.
As a senator, Obama was committed to
working on nuclear non-proliferation,
Nosanchuk said, and as president and
"a strong opponent of Iran obtaining a
nuclear weapon, he has made this a sig-
nature issue during his administration.
"Over a two-year period, there were
negotiations with Iran that have resulted
in this deal that will verifiably prevent
Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon
through extensive
inspection and veri-
fication measures:'
Nosanchuk said.
And one of the
negotiators to the deal
tried to back it up
with facts.
"The real problem
Paul Irwin
with Iran is that they've been lying and
cheating for more than 10 years," said
Paul Irwin, director of nuclear non-pro-
liferation on Obama's National Security
Council. Without a deal in place, Iran is
capable of producing a nuclear weapon
in two to three months, he said.
With the deal, several key objectives
will prevent Iran from producing enough
nuclear material for 10 years.
The deal also gives the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over-
whelming controls over the nuclear
material Iran needs to build a nuclear
weapon in several ways, he said.
Iran must reduce the number of oper-
ational centrifuges it has in its facilities
from 19,000 to 5,060, and a 98 percent
reduction of its stockpile of enriched
uranium from 12,000kg to 300kg, before
sanctions are lifted. And those reduc-
tions last for the next 10 years.
The IAEA will also use sophisticated
equipment developed in the U.S., which
sits on their centrifuges and monitors
what level of uranium Iran is producing
every 20 seconds, he said. Electronic seals
will allow the IAEA to know instantly if
someone is tampering with them.
"The breakout time is now one year
just to get the material, and it will take
even longer to actually take that mate-
rial, make it into weapons-usable form
and build it into a weapon:' Irwin said.
"We feel that it would be sufficient time
if Iran breaks out from its declared pro-
gram for the international community to
detect and respond:'
Iran must also close the previously
secret Fordow facility, which was built
into a mountain and sized to produce a
nuclear weapon, remove 33 percent of its
infrastructure, 75 percent of its centri-
fuges, and put it under continuous moni-
toring, with no levels of uranium for 15
years. It must convert the facility to an
international research technology center,
[meaning that] people from around the
world will be "crawling all over the facil-
ity:' he said.
Iran will also remove the "plutonium
pathway," he said. "They will yank out
the reactor, fill it with concrete and
replace it with another one that cannot