It is a topsy-turvy
world when the United Nations Security Council is stricter than the
Obama administration. Secretary of State John Kerry helped solidify a
nuclear agreement in Geneva that permits the Islamic Republic of Iran to
violate six UNSC
resolutions demanding that it cease enrichment of uranium. (Iran has
been enriching weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear device.)
Iran’s fanatically anti-American Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appears
to have codified his country’s right to enrich uranium as part of an
interim and final agreement.
“Practically the worst of all possible outcomes is what you have
here, a nuclear-capable state,” said former CIA director Michael Hayden
about the Obama administration’s solution for the nuclear crisis.
Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, said
“numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions have called for the full
suspension of Iran’s nuclear activities, so it is troubling that this
agreement still permits the Iranians to continue to enriching. “
From a macro-level perspective, the nuclear agreement is the third
major shift in modern Middle East relations. The first was the collapse
of the Ottoman empire. The second profound shift was the Arab revolts or
Arab Spring movements unfolding in 2011. Last — and probably the most
dangerous — is the Obama administration’s strategy, wittingly or
unwittingly, to shift the balance of Middle East power to Iran’s form of
revolutionary Islamic expansionism.
That helps to explain why Iran’s strategic partner Hezbollah — a
terrorist organization responsible for the deaths of more Americans than
al-Qaeda prior to the 9/11 attacks – was wild about an expected accord.
This coincides with the U.S. State Department’s recently reaffirming that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. More disturbingly, the State report noted Iran has increased terrorist support to Hezbollah and Syria.
Iran’s subsidiary — the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria — praised
the Geneva agreement. For such American allies as Israel, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Bahrain, the deal is a ludicrous failure. The current
negotiating process will likely result in a pattern of new ephemeral
paper-tiger agreements, ad infinitum.
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Monday, November 25, 2013
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