Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, and Majid Takht-e-Ravachi, who are members of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team sit in at a news briefing by Foreign Minister and top nuclear negotiator, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, upon their arrival at the Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Zarif and his entourage returned to Tehran on Wednesday morning, a day after Iran and the West reached a historic nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
This deal — and I know you must be sick of me saying this — keeps getting worse all the time:
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said that he insisted during the negotiations that Iran be able to purchase and ship military hardware at any time and from any place, according to the comments made on state-controlled television.
Araghchi vowed “to buy weapons from wherever possible, and [said that Iran] is to provide weapons to whomever and whenever it considers appropriate,” according to a translation of his comments made by the Open Source Center.
The issue of Iran’s ability to purchase and move arms has emerged as a key concern among critics of the Obama administration’s deal. As part of the agreement, Iran will allowed to import and export weapons.
Araghchi claimed that the deal goes further. Iran will not adhere to any current restrictions of its arms trade, he said.
Why did anyone think lifting sanctions for any reason could possibly be a good idea?
Soon Iran will have the entire globe as its arms bazaar, and a whopping $100,000,000,000 shopping budget.
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