Finally, A Nuclear deal with Iran

Finally, the American led negotiators managed to work out a deal in principle with the Iranians (the final deal in it's official form is scheduled for June). It took a great deal of effort by John Kerry, US Secretary of State with the backing of Obama to come this far, in spite of opposition from the Right Wing elements of the Republican party and Netanyahu, who is more acting like the Republican Governor of the unofficial 51st state of United States, called Israel.

I am glad a deal was reached at the end of several stalemates. It's future still remains uncertain in an unsure world, filled with unpredictable parameters. Constructive opposition is the greatest hallmark of a healthy democracy. It's always okay to oppose providing a viable alternative, rather than blindly opposing for the sake of it. I have not seen any concrete proposal from the opponents of this deal, except military strikes on Iran's mainland and imposing further sanctions.

The first option is ruled out at this moment. Unlike Iraq and Syria, the Iranian Nuclear facilities are scattered across thousands of miles, some in heavily populated areas. Air strikes will hardly achieve anything, except raising the nationalism of the Iranians. The Israeli Army simply can't rush tanks into Tehran without the backing of foot solders from America. It will be suicidal for the Americans to do so, specially at this juncture, when their economy surging ahead compared to the stagnating other major economies Europe, Japan and China. The second option is putting more sanctions on Iran. This, along with computer virus attacks to cripple their nuclear installations and killing of some of their nuclear scientists (Israel and USA being blamed for both), has not prevented Iran from getting closer to their goal. So more sanctions will hardly achieve anything new.

The credit of Iran's sustaining nuclear program should go to one man: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who like Robert Oppenheimer of America or Dr. Kalam of India, is the chief architect of their program. This is to the jealousy of their Bette Noire Saudis, who are champion hypocrites and hardly capable of producing quality scientists, nuclear or otherwise. Whatever the opponents of the deal harp about, kudos to Obama who has done his best to make this deal possible, wishing to make this as his notable signature Foreign Policy achievement before he goes out of office.

As John F Kennedy said "We should not negotiate out of fear, but should never fear to negotiate". Reminds me of a scene from B R Chopra's MAHABHRAT which was telecasted in late 1980s. Lord Krishna goes as a peace envoy to the Kauravas, saying SHANTI KA KOI VIKALP NAHI HAI (there is no alternative to peace). He was so correct.