Former Obama aide Ben Rhodes received blowback on Twitter for suggesting that Iran was able to triple its nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium in four months because of American Jews.
The United Nations announced Tuesday that Iran has nearly tripled the amount of enriched uranium it has since November.
Rhodes was President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser and helped craft the Iran nuclear deal with world powers, which placed restrictions on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program at the time.
“I hope everyone at AIPAC can do a victory lap for tripling Iran’s stockpile,” Rhodes said.
I hope everyone at AIPAC can do a victory lap for tripling Iran’s stockpile https://t.co/DUVEyrdxUK
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 3, 2020
Critics on social media immediately reacted to the comment, firing back at him for what they characterize as him trying to blame Jews for the growing stockpile.
Iran: nearly triples its stockpile of enriched uranium
Ben Rhodes: the Jews did this https://t.co/P0REyOjePX— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) March 3, 2020
I guess Ben didn’t read the JCPOA. Under its sunset provisions, Iran can triple its stockpile, and far worse, as it took patient pathways to nukes. https://t.co/wCVPFMJ37I
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) March 3, 2020
So much wrong w this.
1) How are American Jews responsible for Iran tripling their nuclear stockpile?
2) How is it they managed to do that in 4 months?
3) Iran is still claiming to be maintaining that deal w Europe so maybe they just can’t be trusted and it was a shitty deal? https://t.co/Jlqa7CRSoX
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) March 3, 2020
What irrelevancy looks like. https://t.co/WDXEwd5jqv
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) March 3, 2020
Casually blaming American Jews for controlling foreign policy at the behest of Israel. Cool, cool. https://t.co/RkYOLUMm5K
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) March 3, 2020
Rhodes acknowledged back in 2016 that he helped create an “echo chamber” in the media to garner support for the agreement, saying, “[The media was] saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”
