We can only hope so.
Via NRO:
President Obama’s nuclear agreement to slow down Iran’s drive to become a nuclear-weapons power faces tough resistance from Senate Republicans and Democrats because of massive loopholes in the deal.
The Hill reported today that “an Iran sanctions bill opposed by the White House continues to gain traction in Congress with 59 senators officially signing on as of Friday morning—just one shy of a filibuster-proof majority.”
The goal of the bill is straightforward, namely, to ensure that the Islamic Republic of Iran – the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism – does not develop a nuclear-weapons device. Senators Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) and Robert Menendez (D., N.J) drafted the legislation entitled the Nuclear Weapons Free Act.
It is puzzling to observe the Obama administration showing such deference to a rogue regime that from its inception in 1979 has murdered Americans in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia.
Iran continues to defy six U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding that it cease its illicit enrichment of uranium. Nonetheless, Obama declared that the November 24 agreement in Geneva “halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program.”
The agreement has flopped on two levels. First, Iran announced it plans to build advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium. “The new generation of centrifuges is under development. But all tests should be carried on it before mass production,” said Iran’s nuclear director Ali Akbar Salehi. Put simply, Iran is set to amass huge quantities of weapons-grade uranium.
Second, the sanctions relief outlined by the Obama administration severely underestimated the benefits to Iran’s money-starved economy. According to the White House, the deal will provide $7 billion in relief to Iran. However, the real figure probably hovers around $20 billion.