By Alan Caruba
The
strangest thing about Obama’s efforts to achieve friendly relations with Iran,
something he has tried to do since he first took office in 2009, is that Iran
has made it abundantly clear since its Islamic revolution in 1979 that it hates
America and, in tandem, Israel as well.
In an
Iranian naval drill on February 25, Iran blew up a mock U.S. aircraft carrier
near the entrance of the Persian Gulf. It was a full-size replica of the USS
Nimitz. This is the antithesis of friendship, but just to make their position
clear, Iranian Rear Adm. Ali Fadavi, commander of its naval forces, let it be
known that “We have the most advanced sea mines which cannot be imagined by the
Americans.”
But the
Americans—in this case the President of the United States and his negotiators—have
been making every concession they can to get an agreement that would limit
Iran’s ability to produce its own nuclear weapons. Dr. Norman Bailey, an
adjunct professor of economic statecraft at the Institute of World Politics,
Washington, D.C., recently wrote that “The U.S. looks set to present its allies
with a dangerous fait accompli on Iran’s nuclear program.”
“The most
recent deadline of March 24th means only one thing,” Dr. Bailey
wrote in a World Tribune commentary.
“A deal has been reached between the U.S. and Iran, which will be announced to
the other five participants when the Obama administration decides it is
convenient to do so.” The other five obviously have nothing to say regarding
the negotiations. At one point, the French foreign minister stormed out of the
initial meeting proclaiming “This is a fool’s deal.”
It’s worse
than a fool’s deal. It is a deal that is predicated on the nuclear destruction
of Israel and, after that, the U.S. is next. One might think that Obama knows
this and one might be right. People like Mayor Rudy Giuliani have long noticed
that Obama doesn’t seem to like America very much.
A commentary
by Lawrence Sellin, PhD, a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the U.S.
Army Reserve, and tours of service in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Major General
Paul E. Vallely, U.S. Army, retired, noted that the nuclear agreement did not
include measures that would prevent any cooperation between Iran and North
Korea or other rogue states. This has not gone unnoticed by the Israelis.
Intelligence Minister, Yuval Steinitz, has noted that “We all know that Iran,
Syria and North Korea are very close to each other.”
North
Korea has its own nuclear weapons program and, as Dr. Sellin and Maj. Gen.
Vallely, warned, “Unless specifically prohibited and enforced within the terms
and conditions” of the deal, “Tehran may attempt to sidestep the protocols by
‘outsourcing’ parts of the bomb production process to North Korea, Iran’s
long-term partner on everything from launch missiles to guidance systems to
nuclear war head technology and other required components.”
Iran’s
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, a party to the negotiations with Secretary John
Kerry, met with a visiting North Korean deputy foreign minister, Ri Gil Song,
shortly after February 2014 Vienna discussions. Fars News reported that their meetings
were devoted to “bolstering and reinvigorating the two countries’ bilateral
ties.”
Anyone
recall George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil”? It was Iran, North Korea, and Iraq.
In case
you are less than confident of Iran’s intentions, in 2013 before the previous
nuclear negotiations were concluded, according to the Fars News Agency, the
regimes’ outlet run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Massoud Jazayeri,
the deputy chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, said “America’s interests and
all of Israel are within the range of the Islamic Republic and there is not the
slightest doubt among Iran’s armed forces to confront the American government
and the Zionists (Israel).”
If the
U.S. Congress has the means to deter and render Obama’s negotiations null and
void, they had better do so. On
September 26, 2007, the U.S. Senate passed legislation by a vote of 76-22
designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. The
long record of Iran and its state-sponsored terrorism can be found by visiting
Wikipedia.
What we
are witnessing is a level of insane appeasement comparable to that of the 1930s
when European nations refused to acknowledge Nazi Germany’s clear intention to
conquer them.
Iran’s
intentions are known to Obama and no doubt to our Congress. They are surely
known to Israel and the Gulf nations. If history is any guide, these
negotiations will put the world on the path to a cataclysm that defies the
imagination.
© Alan
Caruba, 2015
1 comment:
It defies the imagination of anyone whose foolish beliefs--unquestioned dogmas, really--render them complacent about Obama as leader of the free world.
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