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Obama has no credibility in Middle East

The president can’t be trusted to make a deal with Iran. The United States has no credibility in the Middle East because President Obama was negotiating with Iran for nearly a year without telling Israel or Saudi Arabia, our allies.

If a deal is approved, sanctions on Iran will be lifted and a nuclear arms race will occur in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia made its intentions known, if Iran develops a nuclear weapon they will also. You cannot afford to have nuclear arms race in an unstable Middle East. Under the president’s deal Iran has to submit to inspections. The president didn’t tell the American people the inspectors will be Iranians.

Iran has to stop uranium enrichment, the deal doesn’t say Iran cannot use platinum. The president says he wants to stop a war from occurring. The president doesn’t seem to know a religious war is already happening with the Shiite against the Sunni. If a war is to occur, then let a conventional one occur not a nuclear one. If Iran obtains nuclear weapons it will use them because their teaching tell of the entire Middle East being set on fire and then the next profit will reveal themselves.

The president turned his back on human rights and that three Iranians were executed every day in Iran. For the president to say that if lawmakers don’t support his deal they are fools is unbecoming of a president that deals behind his allies back while ignoring human rights.

This story was originally published September 3, 2015 at 8:59 AM with the headline "Obama has no credibility in Middle East."

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