John Kerry Calls Alternatives to Iran Deal ‘Unicorn’ and ‘Fantasy’

Secretary of State John Kerry made a heated defense of the Iran nuclear deal Thursday, saying the U.S. will face international isolation and degraded security if Congress rejects the deal.

“The diplomatic support that we have built with all these other countries, that we’ve accumulated, would disappear overnight,” Kerry said at a contentious Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

Kerry said congressional rejection would give Iran a “green light” to install advanced centrifuges, double its uranium enrichment process and “proceed full speed ahead with a heavy water reactor … and do it all without the unprecedented inspection and transparency measures that we have secured.”

“Everything that we have prevented will then start taking place,” he said, noting that Iran already has extensive experience with the technology used to build a nuclear weapon. “We can’t bomb that knowledge away, nor can we...
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