The nuke deal's 'honor system' -- leaving inspections to Iran

President Obama would trust Tom Brady to inspect his own footballs. 

That’s our takeaway from the news that, under Obama’s nuclear deal, the only folks who’ll be inspecting one of Iran’s key sites will be . . . the Iranians themselves. 

For this, Obama will hand Tehran $150 billion in hard cash in the deal’s first year, plus more sanctions relief. 

The military base at Parchin is where experts believe Iran has worked on building nuclear-weapon detonators, and probably other nuke work. By treaty, Tehran is supposed to let International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors take a look; it’s been refusing for a decade. 

Now the Associated Press has landed a secret document in the Iran deal, which specifies that the IAEA will just let Iran’s own government do the inspecting at Parchin — and send along evidence from the scene. 

Sen. Bob Menendez addressed rumors of the arrangement head-on Tuesday, calling it “the equivalent of having an athlete accused of using performance-enhancing drugs submit an unsupervised urine sample to the appropriate authority. Chain of custody doesn’t matter when the evidence given to you is prepared by the perpetrator.” 

The White House isn’t even denying the AP story — it merely issued a statement saying, basically, Trust the IAEA. Except the IAEA negotiated this “inspection” plan because its bosses, the UN Security Council’s permanent members, ordered it to reach some agreement with the Iranians, and fast. 

Another secret IAEA side deal covers other key inspections. It hasn’t leaked, but you can bet it relies on the honor system, too. 

Congress won’t get a look at either side deal before it votes on the main deal. Team Obama set it up that way. 

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The president insists, “Inspectors will have the permanent ability to inspect any suspicious sites in Iran.” Sounds a lot worse once you know he means Iranian inspectors. 

Obama is selling this deal with lies every bit as bad as, “If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.” Anyone in Congress who pretends to believe his claims now is betraying his or her oath of office.