Because he's the enemy of the United States? Or is this one of those trick questions? Thanks nickcarraway.
"Death to America!"
Posted on 01/08/2016 1:36:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
Iran keeps breaking international law and U.N. Security Council resolutions, while U.S. President Barack Obama continues to capitulate to Tehran’s demands. What did he do when it intensified its military involvement in Syria? He invited Tehran to a peace conference on the conflict.
Iran imprisoned several U.S. citizens, but instead of pressuring Tehran Obama continued nuclear talks. Iran then arrested Dubai-based American businessman Siamak Namazi. Obama signs a nuclear deal with Tehran offering tremendous sanction relief, yet Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) immediately tests ballistic missiles several times, in violation of the nuclear deal and UNSC resolutions.
The Obama administration tells Congress that new sanctions will be imposed on 11 entities and individuals in Iran. However, after Tehran responds by saying it will expedite its ballistic missile program, Obama postpones sanctions “indefinitely†pending “further diplomatic action.â€
This week, after several regional countries downgraded or severed diplomatic ties with Tehran due to its violation of international obligations, defiant Iranian leaders unveiled and boasted about a new underground missile arsenal called Emad, which is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
In addition, the IRGC second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, bragged about the number of missiles Iran has. Provocatively, Tehran also fired a rocket close to the U.S. aircraft carrier Harry Truman in the Straits of Hormuz. Iran keeps provoking, yet Obama and his Western allies keep looking the other way.
All carrot, no stick His continuous carrot-but-no-stick policy toward Iran has led it to believe there will be no consequences to its aggression and unlawful acts. This defiance is shared by both moderates and hardliners.
Obama views the nuclear deal as his crowning foreign policy and Middle East accomplishment. He avoids taking any actions that might undermine the deal. This has led to continuous appeasement of Tehran, which will have severe repercussions for national and regional security.
Obama does not recognize that Iran needs the nuclear deal more than the United States does, for economic reasons. He needs to realize that if one gives Tehran an inch, it takes a mile. Offering only carrots and rewards to Iran will not have the desired effect.
Without an appropriate response from global powers and the international community toward Iran’s defiance, regional powers will feel forced to create a coalition to counterbalance its hegemonic ambitions. This will be a positive development as it will mark the emergence of solid regional leadership independent from global powers and their contradictory interests.
This does not mean that global powers will stop interfering in the region, but they will be more likely to calculate their policies more carefully - due to the independent regional coalition - before acting unilaterally.
___________ Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is an Iranian-American scholar, author and U.S. foreign policy specialist. Rafizadeh is the president of the International American Council. He serves on the board of Harvard International Review at Harvard University and Harvard International Relations Council. He is a member of the Gulf 2000 Project at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs. Previously he served as ambassador to the National Iranian-American Council based in Washington DC. He can be contacted at: Dr.Rafizadeh@post.harvard.edu, or on Twitter: @Dr_Rafizadeh
Plus the ValJar factor.
Valerie Jarret was born in Iran because her father was a doctor who worked in Iran for a while. Her parents were black Americans, and Iran’s government then is nothing like it is now.
He’s the Madmulllahian Candidate.
BUMP
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague. Cicero, 55 BC in Roman Senate
How much money has been laundered through to the “Barack Obama Foundation”? That’s what folks need to be checking.
His Secretary of State (that would be longfaced John Kerry) has a daughter who is married to an Iranian. (Iranian American, actually, if that matters a whit.)
Because the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of eeslam?
Because he's the enemy of the United States? Or is this one of those trick questions? Thanks nickcarraway.
"Death to America!"
Because Valerie is an Iranian, and Iman Baraq is looking for the return of the Mahdi.
The Iranian negotiator is now one of Lurch’s in-laws..
The future belongs to non Muslims. There are no Muslims in Star Trek!
None of it makes any sense at all, unless Obama is, in fact, on their side.
Kerry’s SIL is Zarif’s son. (Chief negotiator for the ‘deal’).
He is a Muslim and this what Jarrett wants. Is this rocket science?
ValJar, too, is muslim.
HF
Why does nobama keep indulging Iran?
Because he is a Muslim. Just that simple.
Proof she is a Muslim? She is NOT Persian. You badly mistake her. She is a leftist.
It appears I was sucked into a false Internet rumor.
Sorry. Please disavow my earlier comment.
Thanks,
HF
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