My latest in PJ Media:
In the course of a lengthy briefing by “senior administration officials” regarding National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s upcoming trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the topic of Iran and its nuclear ambitions came up again and again. Biden’s handlers reiterated that they were determined not to allow the Islamic Republic of Iran to get nuclear weapons, but at the same time maintained that they were intent on bringing the mullahs back into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Barack Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal that paved the way for the rogue Iranian regime to get nukes.
Iran, said the unnamed official who was conducting the briefing, “will be very high on the agenda for Jake’s visit to Israel this week. The discussion will be a continuation of our ongoing consultations on the threat posed by Iran, particularly its nuclear program, but also its destabilizing activities in the region. We share, with our Israeli partners, a deep concern about the advancements in Iran’s nuclear program.”
Iran’s nuclear program, Biden’s handlers would have you believe, is all Trump’s fault: “Following the previous administration’s withdrawal from the JCPOA without much thought or plan as to what would come next — and we’ve just seen this dramatic acceleration of Iran’s nuclear program since then. The U.S. and Israel are totally aligned in our determination to ensure Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon.” He repeated this several times during the call, discussing “the real dangers that — it’s a danger to not just Israel, but danger to the entire international security — of Iran’s rapidly advancing and accelerating nuclear program. We are, I think, both committed to ensuring that Iran — as I mentioned, totally aligned on the fact that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.”
That sounds great, but reentering Obama’s awful JCPOA is exactly the wrong way to go about it. The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran explains that among many other disquieting features, the JCPOA allows Iran to delay International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection requests for up to 24 days — ample time to clean up for the inspectors. The agreement also removes all economic sanctions on Iran. This included the removal of sanctions that had originally been intended to be removed only when Iran definitively gave up its nuclear program; now the Islamic Republic would be given sanctions relief and allowed to continue its nuclear program, only with certain restrictions that would all eventually expire anyway. Sanctions relief allows the Iranian mullahs to finance jihad groups worldwide, as they did with the billions Obama gave them.
On Sept. 23, 2015, two months after the nuke deal was finalized, Khamenei published an article entitled “The Idols Will Be Shattered,” illustrated with a drawing of the Statue of Liberty shattered in pieces. In it, he declared, “The idol of the soul, the idol of pride, [and] the idol of sexual lust; the idol of tyranny and subservience; the idol of global tyranny [that is, the U.S.]; the idol of sloth and irresponsibility; and the other idols that shame the precious human soul—a plan that will spring forth from the depths of the heart will shatter them.” That doesn’t exactly sound as if the JCPOA was a path to peaceful coexistence.
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libertyORdeath says
Iran has NEVER complied with the terms of the JCPOA…not when America was a part of the deal, nor when the US dropped out and the deal remained between the EU and Iran. They have been enriching uranium to well above the agreed upon levels since before the US pulled out.
Why would you give an islamist theocracy that uses terrorism to achieve its goals any chance at developing nuclear weapons? If the JCPOA was a deal that would prevent Iran from developing nukes, then why has Israel opposed it from the start? Why did Israel have to perform strikes on the Natanz plant to hinder their development of weapons grade nuclear materials?
And how exactly would the sanctions relief help to ensure that Iran does not become a nuclear power? Seems like it would only embolden and fund their desire to drop nukes on Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Heres hoping we get a congress that can realistically evaluate the threat from Iran, without being hampered by self guilt over imagined “racism” and “islamophobia”.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden may rightly and justly be called “The appeaser and supporter of that hostile anti American Islamic tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran .”
Therefore Biden may appropriately and fittingly be called “The traitorous and treasonous pseudo US ‘President’ ”
In addition, for Biden to even attempts to shift the blame of things on Donald Trump only shows that creepy old Joe isn’t man enough to accept responsibly that he’s either completely incompetent or treasonous playing the role of a real president.
gravenimage says
Biden’s State Department Paving the Way for Iran to Get Nukes
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It certainly seems that way.
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Blames Trump
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Of course–who else?
PR says
Were Biden, or, any of his cabal, to announce that it`s sunny outside, I`m grabbing my umbrella and raincoat.
Capitalist-Dad says
What garbage the Democrat Marxist mouthpieces spew. BO Plenty’s “foreign policy” was to weaken and embarrass America by supporting whatever was worst for American interests. He knew his unconstitutional nuclear “deal” would result in nuclear armed mullahs and didn’t care. I know through a conservative Senator who was at one meeting that BO was told by advisors that Iran would have nuclear weapons within ten years, and that he responded that ten years was after he would be out of office. Biden’s handlers are still on the BO wavelength facilitating Iran’s nuclear ambitions, because they detest America at least as much as BO.
OLD GUY says
I wonder how long they can ride the Trump blame train.
gravenimage says
As long as people let them.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden with his treasonous policy of always favoring ,appeasing that aggressive and hostile tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran that is also to brutally cruel viciously harsh and opressive to the Iranian people actually means the “president” pretender Biden is a disaster to America and a disaster to Israel and a disaster to the terribly abused and oppressed Iranian people and Biden is likewise a disaster to the world.
William Downey says
It’sTrump’s fault is hollow rhetoric. The JCOPA is an agreement, not a treaty, and an agreement that Iran never signed. No one forced Iran out of compliance, and the Mullahs had the option to remain in compliance.
If Iran had a peaceful nuclear program, it would not have hidden facilities or enriched uranium to sixty percent, a short step from ninety percent grade needed for atomic weapons.
JCOPA was fatally flawed by not addressing Iran’s ballistic missile program or its sponsoring of terrorism. Not to mention lifting sanctions and delivering the regime cash used not for Iranian citizens but to fund its malign actions.
For the Iranian government, JCPOA was a tissue of lies. Tehran’s ‘new’ regime has walked back the concessions agreed to previously. There is neither a return to the old agreement nor the possibility of a new deal.