By giving up the military option, the United States has essentially assured Iran of getting a nuclear weapon, Harvard law professor and Newsmax blogger Alan Dershowitz tells
Newsmax TV.
"We negotiated from a position of weakness," Dershowitz told host J.D. Hayworth on Thursday's "Newsmax Prime." "We let them negotiate as equals."
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who supports the deal, also believes that by eliminating the military option Iran is more likely to get a bomb and begin a war, Dershowitz said.
"This is a terrible deal that was very poorly negotiated, and it will be a win-win for Iran," Dershowitz said. "They're going to get the sanctions removed, they're going to get their nuclear weapons, they're going to get more power over dissidents in their own country, more power over other countries in the Middle East, more money to support terrorism."
Dershowitz has challenged the Obama administration to
debate him on the agreement, which is still being considered by Congress.
Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings
on Thursday joined New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and other Democrats in opposing the deal. Dershowtiz said many in the party are opposed as well.
"Whether they'll have the courage that Chuck Schumer's had, who's put his own leadership at risk by doing this, to come out and say what he really believes
— if all senators said what they really believed about this deal, it would go down in flames and there would be enough folks to overcome the president's veto," Dershowitz said.
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump has called the deal a disaster, and used a Wall Street analogy, saying it's time to buy stock in Iran since it won the negotiations.
Pollster Matt Towery told "Newsmax Prime" there's truth in that statement.
Military stocks have soared over the last seven to eight to nine months, Towery said.
"In fact, since the Arab Spring, we've seen these companies, their stocks just rise even as the Dow and the S&P has its ups and downs," he said. "Every country in that region is buying right now every kind of weapon they can to protect themselves because they're scared to death."
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