Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says Obama’s deal with Iran has “lots of holes in it.”
At a Monday press conference in Greece, N.Y., Schumer stated that, “Particularly troublesome, you have to wait 24 days before you can inspect. That will allow some of the radioactivity to be seen but not non-radioactivity that goes into building a bomb, all the kinds of other things you need.”
Chuck Schumer: First, let me say this. this was one of the most difficult decisions that i had to make. Uhh, I studied it long and hard, read the agreement a whole bunch of times, had many, many, many uh meetings and interviews with people on both sides, including three classified briefings where you can ask questions that are not in the confines of the document but very relevant to making a decision. And, I have found when it’s such a difficult decision, as this one has been, you got to study it carefully, come up with a conclusion, not let pressure, politics, or party influence your decision and then do the right thing as one sees it. Well, that’s what I’ve done. In terms with Iran during the first ten years of nuclear weapons, I found the inspections regime not anywhere-anytime but with lots of holes in it. Particularly troublesome, you have to wait 24 days before you can inspect. That will allow some of the radioactivity to be seen but not non-radioactivity that goes into building a bomb, all the kinds of other things you need.