Sour grapes: Obama has no room to talk about Trump’s Iran deal 

Former President Barack Obama is on the outside looking in — and he doesn’t like it one bit.

Like last year’s prom queen who refuses to relinquish her crown, Obama is sniping about President Trump’s new deal with Iran, claiming it is “doubtful” it will be “significantly different” or a “significant improvement” from the nuclear agreement he reached with Iran in 2015, which Trump ditched in 2018.   

Obama further mused that his own nuclear deal had “worked for … a long stretch of time before we, the United States, pulled out of it.” This conveniently ignores that Iran cheated on that accord from the very beginning, mainly because its inspection requirements were inadequate. Iran’s military facilities, for example, were off limits to the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. It turned out the mullahs’ illegal weapons development and enrichment were hidden in those military outposts.

In reality, Obama’s deal was not working, and Obama knew it.  

In 2016, writing for the Council on Foreign Relations, Elliott Abrams cited a report from Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Iran’s “clandestine” efforts to obtain illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies “at what is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high level.” At the time, Abrams noted, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reported to parliament that Iran had violated the United Nations Security Council’s anti-missile development regulations: “Iran continued unabated to develop its rocket program in conflict with the relevant provisions of the U.N. Security Council.”

Another report, from the Institute for Science and International Security, confirmed that Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization attempted to purchase tons of carbon fiber, goods necessary to producing advanced centrifuge rotors, just a few weeks after the deal with Obama had........

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