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Khamenei drops his objections, accepts the nuke deal

Feb 3, 2016 9:53 pm By Robert Spencer

He had wanted even more concessions.

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“Khamenei Capitulates To Pragmatic Camp, Accepts JCPOA Without The Preconditions He Outlined In October 2015 Letter To President Rohani,” by Y. Carmon and A. Savyon, MEMRI, February 3, 2016:

Introduction

According to the IAEA report released January 16, 2016, Iran has implemented its commitments under the JCPOA. This means that Iran has not refrained from meeting its obligations, despite Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s nine preconditions, which he set out in an October 21, 2015 letter to Iranian President Hassan Rohani.  Obviously, Khamenei, the head of Iran’s ideological camp which had opposed the JCPOA, has capitulated to the pragmatic camp which demanded that the JCPOA be honored and that Iran fulfill its commitments under it, with no further conditions.

How Can Khamenei’s Capitulation Be Explained?

One explanation for Khamenei’s capitulation over Iran’s implementation of the JCPOA is that the ideological camp has, in recent months, found itself fighting on several fronts simultaneously:

  1. The deteriorating Iranian economy and the need for sanctions relief.
  2. The increasing conflict with the pragmatic camp in advance of the upcoming elections for the Majlis and Assembly of Experts; as noted, the pragmatic camp has insisted that Iran implement the JCPOA.
  3. Difficulties in Iran’s multi-front war against the Sunni camp of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, the Gulf states, Egypt, and Jordan.
  4. Additionally, Iran’s failure to carry out its implementation commitments could have placed Khamenei in direct conflict with the West.

In light of all this, Khamenei has chosen not to confront both the West and the Sunni world at the same time, focusing on Iran’s domestic front. By doing so, Khamenei has recruited the entire Western world, particularly the U.S., to the side of Shi’ite Iran in its struggle against the Sunni threat against it.

Khamenei’s main struggle at this stage is domestic: there is a need to strengthen the ideological camp, and through it, the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, so that in future it can operate more freely on the nuclear front as well.

Another explanation for this capitulation is that Khamenei’s position was from the outset for purposes of bargaining, with the aim of maximizing Iran’s gains under the JCPOA. Ultimately, the West enabled Iran to carry out its commitments in a way that benefited Iran more than the original JCPOA did, as follows:

What Iran Has Achieved With The JCPOA

With the JCPOA, Iran has achieved the following:

  1. International recognition as a nuclear state, with the right to enrich uranium and to trade in nuclear products, as it maintains its membership in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This is in spite of its years of striving for nuclear weapons, as was recently reaffirmed by the IAEA’s December 2, 2015 report on the Iranian nuclear project’s Possible Military Dimensions (PMD).
  2. Legalization and upgrade of its nuclear program, and at the same time the lifting of most of the sanctions put in place because of its pursuit of nuclear weapons. In return, it is subject to a series of restrictions extending its breakout time, that is, the time it needs to produce enough highly enriched uranium to make one nuclear weapon, from two months to one year.
  3. Upgrade to a regional superpower with nuclear capabilities, and strengthening of the resistance axis, which it leads. This comes at the height of a regional Sunni-Shi’ite struggle against the U.S.’s traditional allies – Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt.
  4. Even the nuclear restrictions imposed on Iran involve substantial benefits that upgrade and industrialize its nuclear program….

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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Has the old, sly fox Khamenei truly ‘capitulated’ or is he planning his life’s greatest act of TAQIYYA ever?

    Will his next and perhaps final great betrayal be truly earth-shaking?

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    With Iran’s almost ceaseless and unnecessary provocation and brinksmanship, how can members of Congress support any deal with an obviously unreliable and insincere partner. What partner? Iran is a bristling enemy!

  3. gravenimage says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    “Khamenei Capitulates To Pragmatic Camp
    …………………….

    Yeah–he “capitulated” after we’d already handed him the store…

    And now he can pretend to be a “pragmatist”–good God.

    He’s a “pragmatist” in the same way that Rouhani is a “reformer”.

  4. Don McKellar says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Perhaps he’ll buy a new 9 year old bride to celebrate and honor the example of his prophet?

  5. WorkingClassPost says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 11:28 pm

    Perhaps he’s found enlightenment, and there’s hope for all mankind.

  6. Mthew Solo says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 12:39 am

    Many Iranian People are a Good People…these Monsters that have them in
    their clutches are proof of Islam’s poison…how it permeates when not contained…
    few other Ideologies could have harmed them so badly and for so long.

    Our modern leaders seem to think that if We could just placate offbeat Ideologies
    they will come around and join the common world around them….well while We are
    waiting for the mindset to wane…let’s look at the Communist and Socialist Ideologies…
    not changed much there…right…so what does the West do…We down play Our own ways…
    instead of valuing and strengthening them and recognizing that they have worked so far…
    We trade with enemies of our ways…they strengthen…and threaten.

    You can’t vacillate…because when the momentum is theirs They’ll push with it.

    These problem Nations would not give the time of day if they didn’t want something.

    The West needs to concentrate on Our Economy Big Time…Our Military Big time…
    Our Social Values Big Time…Our True Alliances that We left flapping in the wind
    Big Time…NOW!…not eventually…NOW!

    Why has complacency prevailed and why haven’t We rose above this.

    Our Leaders are not Servant Leaders…They do not band together to prevail over
    the special interest…the privileged few…the enemies of our peoples best interest…
    Our common well being is laid waste…yet they collect their pay…all the extras…
    and wink at us as if to say…You would do it too if You could…are they right.

  7. Mathew Solo says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 12:44 am

    Many Iranian People are a Good People…these Monsters that have them in
    their clutches are proof of Islam’s poison…how it permeates when not contained…
    few other Ideologies could have harmed them so badly and for so long.

    Our modern leaders seem to think that if We could just placate offbeat Ideologies
    they will come around and join the common world around them….well while We are
    waiting for the mindset to wane…let’s look at the Communist and Socialist Ideologies…
    not changed much there…right…so what does the West do…We down play Our own ways…
    instead of valuing and strengthening them and recognizing that they haveworked so far…
    We trade with enemies of our ways…they strengthen…and threaten.

    You can’t vacillate…because when the momentum is theirs They’ll push with it.

    These problem Nations would not give the time of day if they didn’t want something.

    The West needs to concentrate on Our Economy Big Time…Our Military Big time…
    Our Social Values Big Time…Our True Alliances that We left flapping in the wind
    Big Time…NOW!…not eventually…NOW!

    Why has complacency prevailed and why haven’t We rose above this.

    Our Leaders are not Servant Leaders…They do not band together to prevail over
    the special interest…the privileged few…the enemies of our peoples best interest…
    Our common well being is laid waste…yet they collect their pay…all the extras…
    and wink at us as if to say…You would do it too if You could…are they right.

  8. Dan Jones says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 2:06 am

    and obama and his hoodlums cheer in ecstasy over this…

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=4526

  9. duh_swami says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 7:18 am

    Of course the Ayatollah is happy, he got 150 billion for some empty promises…

  10. Angemon says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    Khamenei Capitulates To Pragmatic Camp, Accepts JCPOA Without The Preconditions He Outlined In October 2015 Letter To President Rohani

    Translation: “Well, this is not as much as I demanded but it’s more than you offered to begin with, therefore you win”

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