Iran Can't Be Trusted.

President Obama has ruled out Israel’s demand that recognition of Israel’s right to exist be part of any nuclear deal with Iran:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had issued the demand Friday while strongly criticizing a framework nuclear deal reached by Iran and six world powers.

Obama discussed the issue during an interview Monday with the American news media organization NPR.

“The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won’t sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment,” Obama said.

(Hey Sparky — you ever wonder if maybe the “nature of the Iranian regime” makes them a bad bet for a nuclear deal? Just asking questions here, Mr. President.)

Let’s follow that up that story with a helpful reminder from Marc Thiessen:

In announcing his nuclear framework, the president declared : “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world.” He said the deal requires them to “freeze [their] existing nuclear program and to accept international inspection of all existing facilities.” He said the agreement “does not rely on trust. Compliance will be certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency.”

The president who spoke those words was not Barack Obama. It was Bill Clinton, on Oct 18, 1994, announcing that his administration had reached agreement on a nuclear framework with North Korea.

Twelve years later, North Korea exploded a nuclear bomb. And today, Pyongyang is reportedly a few years away from having as many as 100 nuclear weapons.

Regimes that can’t be trusted to recognize the right of an entire people to simple existence, can’t be trusted period.

And that is the real nature of the Iranian regime.