Iran Nuclear Deal - Emily Rosuck (4th period)

Iran and six other nations led by the United States came to an agreement in July that limits Tehran's nuclear ability significantly for 15 years for lifted international oil and financial sanctions on Iraq. The idea is that for the next 15 years Iran will turn their Uranium plants into research centers and will only use their facilities for peaceful purposes.  The key points of the deal are: sanction relief in exchange for halt of weaponization, uranium mining and enrichment restrictions, plutonium production is to be completely stopped, and verifications and inspections have to be open with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and possible military dimension.
The Iran deal is bad not only for middle eastern countries, but also for America. Iran is the most terrorist-centered country in the world. It has terrorist presence and proxies in 30 countries on five continents. The deal itself is flawed for multiple reasons. For starters, it has eighteen nuclear facilities read for reactivation in 15 years. There are over 50 military sites it doesn't want inspected, ever. It has already violated 20 international agreements. There are over 5,000 centrifuges that will continue spinning and the deal expires after 15 years, meaning Iran can go nuclear again if it wants. Iran has also been in the process of building space-lift rockets for intercontinental ballistic missile capability that could potentially reach the United States, why would Iran need intercontinental rockets if they're solely using their facilities for research? Furthermore, state-sponsored gathering have been held before and after the signing of the agreement where chants of "Death to America, death to England, Death to Israel" were frequently heard.
This is not the first time America has dealt with countries withholding nuclear powers to try and make a peace treaty. There have multiple occasions, including the Limited Test Ban treaty in 1963, where the U.S., Russia and the UK banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater. Not to mention the Nuclear and Space Talks in 1987, where the United States proposed drafts on INF forces and Defense and Space, which included the right to withdraw from the ABM Treaty for reasons of supreme national interest. On February 28, Gorbachev announced that the Soviet Union was prepared to sign an agreement to eliminate Soviet and U.S. INF missiles in Europe within 5 years. On March 3, Reagan instructed U.S. negotiators in Geneva to present a U.S. draft INF treaty.
The Iran Nuclear Deal could potentially give a lot of freedom to an extremely radical nuclear power that could threaten not only it's surrounding countries, but our own country. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-deal-is-reached-after-long-negotiations.html