ANALYSIS: 99 Problems with Obama’s Iran Math

By Published on August 4, 2015

President Barack Obama says that 99 percent of the world supports his proposed nuclear deal with Iran. He had better check his math.

The most obvious problem with Obama’s 99 percent figure is the strong American majority opposition to the proposed deal. A Quinnipiac poll released Monday showed that American voters oppose the plan by an almost 30 point margin, 57 percent to 28 percent. Almost identical numbers say that the plan will make the world less safe, not more. And a Pew poll in July showed little public confidence that Iran would live up to its side of the deal, or that international inspectors could enforce it.

The latest Quinnipiac poll also continues a downward slide in American approval of the president’s handling of relations with Iran. In October 2013, the public approved of his policies by eight points, 48 percent to 40 percent. Now he is 21 points under water. Significantly, Obama has less support for his proposed Iran deal than President Jimmy Carter had for the ill-starred SALT II arms control agreement in the fall of 1979, a few months before he withdrew it from consideration by the Senate.

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