IRAN COUNTDOWN – AT 8:18 A.M. ET:  We are eight days away from the presumed deadline for reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran.  Things don't look good.  In the face of American displays of weakness, the Iranians are stiffening their position.  Consider this late news, from PJ Media:

The Iranian parliament passed a bill outlining the country’s “nuclear rights” as the deadline for a final agreement on their nuclear program approaches at the end of this month.

The bill would prevent any inspections of military sites, forbid the IAEA from interviewing its nuclear scientists, and insist that all sanctions on Iran be lifted at the time they begin implementation of the deal.

Administration talking points released after the framework deal was agreed to state that sanctions would be lifted over several years, that all sites deemed “suspicious” would be open to inspection, and that the IAEA would investigate previous efforts by Iran to build a nuclear weapon. This would necessitate interviewing Iranian scientists, something the Iranians have now taken off the table.

COMMENT:  The only way an agreement can be reached is if Obama caves in on vital points, which would not surprise me.  As noted last night, his apparently strategy would be to label opponents of the deal as warmongers.  He would be helped by his increasingly leftist party and by The New York Times. 

But what would Hillary say?  She'd have to support Obama, but would inject enough caveats to allow her to say later that she was for it before she was against it.

June 22,  2015