Robert Einhorn was the key arms control figure in Obama Inc.
The diplomat’s dizzying array of responsibilities included everything from advising the secretary of state to coordinating the implementation of sanctions on Iran, Syria, and North Korea to negotiating with South Korea on a successor civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.
A State Department official tells The Cable that Einhorn’s position will be dissolved, which will bring greater responsibility to a number of high-ranking diplomats — four in particular.
After leaving, Einhorn linked the Syria deal to the Iran deal.
A former senior US nuclear negotiator, Robert Einhorn, said Thursday [Sept. 12] that the fate of the Russian proposal to remove Syria’s chemical weapons will have a strong impact on whether the United States and Iran can make progress toward a nuclear accord.
Now Einhorn is admitting that Obama's Syria deal was worthless.
“If the Syrian government carried out the attack and the agent was sarin, then clearly the 2013 agreement didn’t succeed" in eliminating Assad's chemical weapons, Robert Einhorn, the State Department special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control under Obama told the New York Times.
“Either he didn’t declare all his C.W. [chemical weapons] and kept some hidden in reserve, or he illegally produced some sarin after his stock was eliminated — most likely the former.”
So what does that say about the Iran deal?
Defenders will yammer about international inspection regimes. As if they haven't been disproven enough times already. And as if the secret deals haven't gifted Iran with enough loopholes to drive an ICBM through.