The one thing about the new deal with Iran that should make everyone extremely uneasy is this: Israel doesn't like it. They say we have made a big mistake. The Israelis, who have one of the most formidable intelligence networks in the world, say the Iranians have pulled a fast one on the West with this agreement. When you stop and remember that the Iranian mullahs are the ones who defend suicide bombers, who strap explosives onto their bodies and walk into public places where they blow themselves up, murdering and maiming innocent men, women, and children with no remorse, it's not hard to understand why civilized people everywhere cringe at the idea of a nuclear-enabled Iran. The respected, conservative Weekly Standard has this take on it ("Abject Surrender by the United States"). Also, check out CNN's "Twenty Questions about the Iran Nuclear Deal".

One further word of caution. When thinking about Iran, we should always distinguish between the policies of the Iranian Islamist government and the Iranian people themselves. Historically, the Iranian people have had close ties to the West and have been friends of the United States. One little-known fact is that when the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the USA were announced in Iran, thousand of Iranians poured into the streets to show sympathy. Two days after the tragedy, 60,000 Iranians in a Tehran football (soccer) stadium observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of 9/11 (see "Candle Power: Iran Mourns America's Dead" from Time Magazine [Sept. 18, 2001] at web.archive.org). Our true enemy is not the Iranian people but rather Islamist extremism and the minority of religious crazies who propagate it.