Minimums for a new Iran nuke deal, beware fake experts and other commentary

Iran beat: Minimums for a New Nuke Deal

Even if Iran’s leaders are “willing to dispose of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, restrict itself to a purely civilian program and commit to never developing a bomb,” argue Bloomberg News’ editors, they must also agree to see their advanced centrifuges (not needed for any civilian nuclear program) “destroyed or removed from the country.” Unlike the flawed 2015 deal, new “restrictions on enrichment will have to be indefinite or pushed out so far into the future that they might as well be.” Also, Tehran must agree “to accept intrusive monitoring by American or European inspectors” as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency “to demonstrate compliance.”

Conservative: Beware Fake Experts

“The propaganda campaigns against Israel rely on an industry of manufactured ‘expertise,’ ” explains Commentary’s Seth Mandel — but the game is collapsing. A Sky News anchor recently denouncing “Israel’s strike on a tunnel system beneath a Gaza hospital to eliminate senior Hamas officials, notably its de facto leader Muhammad Sinwar,” cited “our experts” in insisting “Israel was wrong to say there were tunnels underneath the hospital” — but then “Hamas confirmed that the targeted area was indeed the site of a tunnel system,” followed by “reports that Muhammad Sinwar’s body was indeed found in the tunnel system targeted by the IDF.” Fact is, news organizations now find “experts” whenever “they’re needed to lend an academic gloss to rank speculation and conspiracy theories.”

From the right: Blacks’ Bad Bet on Political Clout

Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prompted groups like the NAACP to fast-track “efforts to elect more black officials,” believing “that black political power would naturally lead to black upward mobility,” but the election of black mayors, congressmen and aldermen hasn’t resulted in “the broader economic and social uplift that many expected from increased black political clout,” grumbles City Journal’s Jason L. Riley. “Political integration” and “influence” have “proved insufficient” as history shows “political clout” has “never been a prerequisite for minority socioeconomic advancement.” Blacks needed “more than political saviors and affirmative action schemes,” they needed “economic growth and opportunity” plus “the development of self-reliance, work skills, and cultural norms that have succeeded in lifting so many other groups.”

Washington watch: Good Riddance to FBI HQ

“The closure of the J. Edgar Hoover building and the dispersal of the toxic Washington-centric [FBI] hierarchy is welcome news,” cheers Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness. “Most of the FBI scandals of the last decade were born in the Hoover building headquarters.” Special counsel Robert Mueller ran a “20-month, 40-million-dollar legal circus chasing the unicorn of ‘Russian collusion.’” And FBI chief James Comey found “Hillary Clinton likely guilty of, but somehow not indictable for, a number of felonies.” His successor, Christopher Wray, “infamously oversaw FBI agents spying on parents at school board meetings” and the “discredited Mar-a-Lago SWAT team raid.” And the agency suppressed “any news considered problematic to the then-2020 Biden campaign” on social media. Let this closure “ also mark the end of the most sordid” chapter in the FBI’s history.

Hate patrol: Medicine’s Antisemitism Problem

Antisemitism is “a problem among doctors, and a lot of that problem is concentrated among doctors educated overseas,” warn Jay P. Greene & Ian Kingsbury at Tablet. In a set of over 700 people “profiled by the organization Stop Antisemitism,” Do Not Harm “found that health professionals were more than 2.5 times more likely to be found among antisemites than their share of the workforce. Doctors were almost 26 times overrepresented,” and “half of those Jew-hating doctors received their medical degrees abroad.” Among those, “68% were trained in the Middle East (40%) or Pakistan (28%).” “This problem will only get worse as the rate of importing doctors from abroad is rising.” “To be clear, the average foreign doctor is not an antisemite,” but “in such large numbers, extremists among foreign doctors become more common.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board