The Architect of the Iran Deal

++Dr.Ernest Moriz,from MIT, is our Secretary of Energy.He is the 70-year old man who developed the scenarios where all five ways Iran can have a nuclear bomb would be blocked. His scenarios allowed American negotiators to allow Iran to maintain more of its infrastructure than we originally wanted to allow them. 

++What you have is applied science to solve a complex problem. It is not as complex as Obamacare but as Howard Fineman will be the Obamacare of the Second term administration.

++Americans should be proud of the ingenuity of a man like Dr. Moriz. He took a complex series of problems and put them into a solution that could be sold to both Iran and the P5+1.

++The problem is that American Congress people are incapable of understanding artful solutions. Maybe if Pat Holt had remained in Congress-he was a Princeton physicist afterall--the debate would be fruitful.

++Senator Corker is committed to pushing his legislation that would demand Congress would have oversight of the agreement. The whips are out in force because they need 67 to override a veto. They had it until Bibi farted in the punch bowl and three Democrats withdrew and Senator Menendez was indicted.

++Congress is one threat to this agreement. The other is the cost of verification. The IAEA's verification regime, the most extensive in any nuclear agreement, requires alot of funding. The administration should make sure it has the funding in place.

++Will this agreement calm the region. No. It will be years until we see the positive results. But then again we won't see an Iranian nuke, either.