John Kerry believes that poverty causes terrorism, and so he probably believes that a strong and prosperous Iran will drop its genocidal hatred of Israel and become a stabilizing force in the Middle East. Or more likely he doesn’t care a fig about Israel, but does think that Iran will become peaceful if it becomes prosperous. Meanwhile, back on the planet Earth, Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, recently said: “We have no other enemy in the region except for America.”
“Kerry Tries to Drum Up Some Business in Europe for Iran,” by Felicia Schwartz, Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2016 (thanks to Banafsheh):
LONDON—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that European businesses should not use U.S. sanctions on Iran as an excuse for avoiding business with Tehran.
Mr. Kerry’s comments, just ahead of meetings with European banking leaders here Thursday, were part of the Obama administration’s moves recently to help integrate Iran into the global economic system after decades of punitive sanctions.
Six world powers agreed last year to lift international sanctions in return for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. But since the deal formally took effect in January, Iranian officials have complained that they are not seeing the results of the sanction relief swiftly enough. Although the U.S. played a major role in the nuclear deal, U.S. sanctions related to human rights and terrorism remain in place on broad sectors of Iran’s economy.
Mr. Kerry told reporters traveling with him Tuesday that the U.S. “sometimes gets used as an excuse in this process” by business executives who fear that U.S. would frown on deals with Iran.
“If they don’t see a good business deal, they shouldn’t say, ‘Oh, we can’t do it because of the United States.’ That’s just not fair. That’s not accurate,” Mr. Kerry said….

Angemon says
Indeed, we should come up with sanctions of our own. What Lurch is saying is akin to saying “don’t let the ‘Do Not Feed The Wolf’ signs and bars prevent you from feeding the wolf”. Sanctions are there to harm them where it hurts them – their wallet. What’s the point of having sanctions in place when you’re telling other people to trade with them? Doesn’t that defeat the whole point?
Myrtle Linder says
Kerry is a brainless idiot, representing the USA, how on earth could such a thing happen??
Alexius Comnenus says
Amen! Amen! Amen! And he have a lots of idiots in DC. Maybe soon is their time to get out.
Chris says
I imagine that he came into the world in the normal way… Maybe he was dropped on his head on the way out of the hanger.
Gungadin says
IT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF THE LIMP WRISTED HORSES ARSES THAT ARE IN THE SEATS OF POWER IN DC……
WHEN TRUMP IS ELECTED KERRY AND HIS ILK WILL BE ON A VERY LONG LIST OF CHANGES TO BE MADE AND QUICKLY.
hello says
wait a minute, poverty causes terrorism? I thought it was global warming?
it’s all so confusing! 🙂
Walter Sieruk says
As for those two characters ,in the above picture, with their Islamic scheming together. They are a reminder of the is found in Proverbs 11:21. Which reads “Though they join forces , the wicked will not go unpunished…” [N.K.J.V.]
Guest says
Kerry is an idiot. Iran is in poverty because they want to be in poverty.
Jay Boo says
Kerry ???
Shouldn’t Obama be the one doing the towel head diplomacy?
Chris says
He was shot in the ass? I didn’t know that.
Jay Boo says
Speaking of ………….
Flying Donkey
Wellington says
If Kerry is not a fool, then there is no such thing as a fool. Meanwhile, this gigolo enjoys an extremely rich life-style due to the women he married.
Moreover, the man is not only a fool but a snob and a hypocrite. He is also someone who is not respected in the least by huge numbers of American Vietnam veterans. He’s not as bad as Jane Fonda, but he’s comes mighty close, especially when considering his highly tendentious and inaccurate testimony before Congress when still a young man and which testimony defamed the American military most egregiously. And when the real killing started in SE Asia once America left there in 1975, like Jane Fonda and her ilk, he was conspicuously silent. Damn him. He’s a disgrace——-to America in general and to the American military in particular.
Kepha says
Coulsn’t agree more, Wellington. The Chinese have a saying “When the old frontiersman lost his horse, who knew it was fortunate for him?” Back when I got RIFfed from the State Department (victim of the Peace Dividend), I felt it was a very, very black day and was quite miserable for a while. However, I now see it as God’s merciful providence to spare me the disgrace of serving under the likes of Shrillary Shroooo or Traitor Kerry.
mortimer says
The mullahs are afraid of Iranians falling in love with American freedoms. It’s already too late for that, however, since Iranians remember the happy, relatively relaxed freedom under the Shah in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Persians are generally rebellious and independent. It will be no surprise if the Persians find a way to remove the mullahocracy in a few years.
Kepha says
You sure about that? Back when I was a college kid in the Sillier ‘Seventies, the only things that Tudeh-leaning and Islamist Iranian students in the States agreed on were (a) the Shah had to go, (b) the host country was evil and imperialist, (c) taking the Shah’s money for their studies was good, (d) the JOOOOOZ ran everything, and (e) Blonde, buxom Yankee girls existed for their lust and pleasure. It’s one reason why, every time I see the Mojaheddin-e-Qalq supporters soliciting petitions, I wonder why they weren’t rounded up and deported years ago.
I’ve found my Iranian and Afghan immigrant kids more likeable than not, and respect their willingness to work. I’ve seen the girls shed their hijabs and manteaux in stages; and, who knows if some ideas with which they were raised aren’t being shed, too. Yes, while I’m all for careful screening of who comes in to these United States, I’m not sure that a Muslim Exclusion Act will work.
However, I’m through with marching to rescue the Islamic world from its own follies. Next time they trot out all seven Afghan feminists to decry the horrors of the regimes they’ve left and justify an intervention in some Muslim dungheap, I’m going to start the “Hell no, we won’t go,” chorus, especially if, in the likelihood of a Shrillary Shroooooo presidency, it will be to make the world safe for sodomy and abortion (even if, at the same time, I would urge improving our HUMINT capabilities to bump off an occasional Al-Baghdadi, Bin Laden, or similar scumbag rather than terrorizing a whole country).
Hope says
Kerry is a groveling puppet of Obama, who is the sniveling puppet of the Iranians.
Dance, puppets, dance!
How amusing this must be for Iran. How sad and dangerous for Americans and Israelis. November cannot come soon enough.
Westman says
Other than oil, nuts, and specialized explosives, what does any business want to buy from Iran?
Here are the main exports:
Crude Petroleum, Ethylene Polymers, Iron Ore, Acyclic Alcohols, Nuts, Miltary products.
Here are the main imports:
Wheat, Rice, Corn, Soybean Meal.
Notice that Iran, like many other majority Muslim countries, reproduces beyond it’s ability to maintain its population and is buying the current approx 4% shortfall with oil money. This is very significant because only about 12% of Iran’s land, in the North and Northwest, has enough rainfall for irrigated crops. One objective in controlling Iraq will be to gain underutilized farmland.
This is the Achilles Heel of Iran – it is populating itself into external food dependency. Any enemy willing to destroy Iran’s northern agricultural land and its oil fields will create starvation. Even a small nuclear capable country like Israel could reduce Iran to starvation.
The bush-faced leaders of Iran poke the West because they know it cannot bring itself to do what they would do if the capabilities were reversed. But, they are far more vulnerable than their rhetoric would suggest.
londo says
Did we really learn anything from WW2 and Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I guess not, but what was the lesson you might ask. Lesson 1. Germany 1939. Extremely violent supremacist culture. Germany 1945. Extremely peaceful tolerant culture. What happened in between. Lesson 2. Japan 1940. Extremely violent supremacist culture. Japan 1946. Extremely peaceful (albeit) non-inclusive culture. What happened in between. Islam 2016. Extremely violent supremacist culture. Have we learned anything from WW2?
Westman says
According to Ghassan Hage, some fantasy entity is setting the stage for the extermination of Muslims. This is the brilliant guy who gave the MIT talk: “Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming?”
“Muslims are being prepared by racism for extermination” – by Ghassan Hage.
Dean says
I have read every published content of this agreement and the public simply can’t even conceive of the depth of its irrationality and insanity. In exchange for Iran’s unenforceable promises, the US is required to reverse previous policies and encourage trade with Iran and even oppose private US discriminatory actions against Iran. It is more insane that even I can believe even after reading it. This agreement is so much more and so much worse that even seemingly neutral and even right wing media has revealed.