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Biden Preparing to Repeat Clinton and Obama’s Mistake with Iran
Townhall.com ^ | January 8, 2022 | Wes Martin

Posted on 01/08/2022 4:27:13 AM PST by Kaslin

Before resident Biden proceeds any further with his desire to resurrect the failed Nuclear Weapons Deal Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), he needs to read two recently released documents: State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism Annual Report and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s draft budget for 2022-2023. Each document is a validation of the other.

The Bureau of Counterterrorism Report identifies Iran as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism,” a designation first rendered in 1984. The report specifically mentions: “Tehran’s support for Hizballah, Palestinian terrorism groups in Gaza, and various terrorist and militant groups in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere throughout the Middle East.”

Also addressed in the Counterterrorism Report is State Department’s 2019 designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Just prior to this designation, the U.S. Defense Department released its study identifying the IRGC as being involved in the killing of 603 American service-members in Iraq since 2003.

resident Biden's belief in negotiating with this terrorist nation shows his complete failure to understand the Middle-East philosophy of “When I am in a position of weakness, how can I negotiate. When I am in a position of strength, why should I?”

For the time being, the United States is in a position of strength. Newly-installed Iranian President Raisi is determined to change that. The budget he proposes proves Raisi’s intent to increase Iran’s commitment to expanding hostile actions throughout the Middle East and the world.

Known in Iran as the “Hanging Judge,” Raisi’s direct involvement and rulings against those in disagreement with the fundamentalist government go all the way back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Raisi was a key architect of the 1988 purge and murder of tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents. For over five decades, he has been enforcing the religious extremist government’s suppression, imprisonment, torture, and execution of dissidents throughout the country. Raisi’s mission is now toserve as the architect of advancing Khamenei’s terrorism inside Iran and throughout the world.

This is made very clear in Raisi’s budget, which is broken into two parts. The first portion is the “General Government Budget” which funds standard daily administrative operations. The second portion, which amounts to “Fundamentalist Regime Maintenance," finances all of Iran’s internal oppression and international exportation of terrorism.

Included in this portion are expenditures for the conventional military, the IRGC, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), and other support organizations. In Raisi’s budget, twice as much funding is dedicated to the second portion than the first. What President Biden should recognize as a warning for bad things to come is that within this second portion is the nuclear development program.

For decades Iran has been claiming its nuclear research was for “peaceful atomic energy purposes.” Success in Iran’s mockery of the White House was achieved with nuclear weapons deals with both the Clinton and Obama administrations, culminating with the JCPOA. President Obama sidestepped mandated Senate approval by claiming the JCPOA was not a treaty, only a deal. Ignored was Former Chair of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission David Bergman’s warning, “By developing atomic energy peaceful uses, you reach the nuclear option. There are not two atomic energies.”

Even President Reagan’s “trust, but validate” standard was ignored. Iran, in control of the when and where of the validation inspections, has continuously violated the JCPOA. President Trump was justified in canceling America’s involvement in this failed agreement and his implementation of severe economic sanctions on Iran.

resident Biden is looking to re-energize the JCPOA. To help make this happen, Wendy Sherman has been brought back on the government payroll to serve as Deputy Secretary of State. Her claim to fame, prior to heading U.S. involvement in the 2016 JCPOA negotiations, was having worked as a senior representative on nuclear weapons negotiations with North Korea. That was certainly no stunning success, as North Korea is now a nuclear-armed nation. I lost track of how many times to Congress I have corrected misinformation they received from Sherman. She has been a key-participant in two nuclear-level failures in a row, and Biden is intent on having her leading the way for a third.

Raisi will get his budget approved by parliament. Prisons and gallows are filled with Iranian citizens, to include political leaders, who disagreed with the fundamentalist government of Iran. Once Raisi is armed with nuclear weapons, he will be in a position of strength and his pretense of negotiating will be over.

Biden’s biggest Middle East mistake of 2021 was the incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan. His biggest Middle East mistake of 2022 is shaping up to be re-entering into a deal with Iran, which will surely allow this terrorist nation to complete its research and development into becoming a nuclear power. resident Biden has two documents readily available to provide the necessary information to make the right decision. The question is, will he read them and take the correct action or follow the mistakes of Clinton and Obama?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebrahimraisi; iran; joebiden; nucleardeal

1 posted on 01/08/2022 4:27:13 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Biden isn’t controlling the levers.


2 posted on 01/08/2022 4:29:25 AM PST by Old Yeller (1776 em all. Let God sort it out.)
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To: Kaslin; Lazamataz

Biden is going to bend over for the Ayatollah and get a lengthy Shiite buggering of the first order.

To be blunt about it, on the one hand I am glad Joe will never be able to walk the same again, but on the other it is delineating a hot war with Iran in the near future. Israel will not be defended by Biden. And so the Israelis will be forced to employ nukes.

Joe is a complete idiot. Amd the idiot is mot a legitimate president, his electoral Victory was a stolen Victory.Joe is inapable of fulfilling th eduties of the office and the People did not elect him , its obvious.

I predict that Joe Biden will become the most hated “president” in US history.


3 posted on 01/08/2022 4:50:37 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Old Yeller

And it’s not a mistake.

At least as far as Deep State is concerned.


4 posted on 01/08/2022 4:52:45 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Old Yeller

“..Biden isn’t controlling the levers....”

^THIS^
The same people that controlled obama’s levers are controlling pedoJoe’s.


5 posted on 01/08/2022 5:03:04 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Old Yeller
Biden isn’t controlling the levers.

Partner, it is ole Obama himself with help from their trusted advisor Miss Valerie Jarrett.

Isn't it amazing what these fools are doing to the good ole U.SA.

I personally think that ole Obama and their trusted friend Miss Valerie Jarrett are in the Shite Sect of the so called Mooselimb religion. It is not a religion.

There is still going on a religious war or civil war going on between the Shite sect and the Sunni folks.

We just hope they kill themselves off since Mooselimbs are not wanted here.

Also, Biden is so dumb that he has aligned himself with the Shite Mooslimbs.

6 posted on 01/08/2022 5:25:18 AM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: Kaslin

Iran was never punished for taking American hostages in 1979. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - what did any of them do to weaken Iran? Sanctions? Seems pretty weak “punishment.” Destroying Iraq & toppling Saddam Hussein was a big gift to Iran.


7 posted on 01/08/2022 5:33:34 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: Kaslin

Leave it Joe to f*** everything up……sez Obama.


8 posted on 01/08/2022 5:37:13 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: Kaslin

And Carter. It’s not “a mistake” when every Democrat pursues the empowerment of the terror state as an agenda.


9 posted on 01/08/2022 5:57:40 AM PST by No.6
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To: Kaslin

Only those who have their heads up their a$$ are surprised.


10 posted on 01/08/2022 6:05:00 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: Kaslin

It is not a mistake. The deep state needs the heron.


11 posted on 01/08/2022 6:07:40 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Kaslin

Someday soon, Iran is going to announce...Surprise! We are a nuclear power. We now have five nuclear weapons in our possession.

They will hold the Middle East/World hostage to their theocracy.


12 posted on 01/08/2022 6:46:13 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: Kaslin

It isn’t a ‘mistake.’ It’s another way the Biden Crime Family has worked out how to get paid...


13 posted on 01/08/2022 6:47:29 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: wardamneagle
Leave it Joe to f*** everything up……sez Obama.

It's not just Obama. When Joe and Dr. Jill have sex, Jill has to be on top, because Joe can only f*** up.
14 posted on 01/08/2022 7:45:04 AM PST by Colinsky
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To: Kaslin

Democrat = Mistake

Some things never change


15 posted on 01/08/2022 9:21:47 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Kaslin

When will sentient reporters with an ounce of integrity and everyone else who doesn’t want to remembered as having lived in make-believe land stop saying “Biden” has done or believes this or that? It would be honest to say, “Biden’s policy makers.”


16 posted on 01/08/2022 10:37:31 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now ( )
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To: Colinsky

Classic


17 posted on 01/08/2022 4:17:01 PM PST by wardamneagle
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