Posted on 12/07/2018 6:06:35 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Iran on Saturday launched a ballistic missile that can deliver nukes — and the near-complete silence of the press aside, it’s a big deal. The latest test disclosed, once more, the flaws in the Iranian nuclear deal and the confusion of our European allies, who are alarmed by the mullahs’ behavior but fear losing the deal that enables it.
“The Iranian regime has just test-fired a medium range ballistic missile that’s capable of carrying multiple warheads,” Secretary of State Pompeo tweeted Sunday, adding: “This test violates UNSCR 2231” — the United Nations Security Council resolution that made the nuclear deal international law.
One problem for Mr. Pompeo and President Trump is that their predecessors settled for a watered-down United Nations resolution on Iranian missile tests. Desperate to get to a “Yes,” President Obama agreed that the council will merely “call upon” Tehran to please, please, pretty-please not test.
And here we are.
While Tehran hasn’t confirmed the launch, the regime insists it has the right to test missiles for its national defense. France and Britain convened the Security Council Tuesday to discuss what Europeans pointedly refuse to call an Iranian violation but admit is “inconsistent” with the resolution.
America’s UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, called for a unanimous condemnation. Don’t hold your breath. The council plans no action, and even if it meets again, several diplomats tell me, it can’t unite behind even a mild rebuke.
This, even though the launched missile could reach Israel, Egypt, and Southern Europe. As Brian Hook, Mr. Trump’s senior adviser on Iran, told reporters in Brussels Monday, “we have been warning the world for some time that we are accumulating risk of a regional conflict if we do not deter Iran’s missile testing and proliferation.”
Europe’s position is far less clear.
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There were very good reasons for the founders to exclude the children of foreign nationals from being President with the natural born citizen requirement.
Barack Obama was born a British subject and a Kenyan, wherever he was born.
Anyone born with multiple nationalities is not naturally an American.
Natural born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they have only ONE nationality.
It is still unclear if we survive the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Helen Keller?
Yup...lay one in somewhere over our East Coast...detonate...EMP nightmare.
Agreed...
Too easy...
LOL
Meanwhile…
The Khashoggi thing is the media’s way of bashing three of Iran’s enemies simultaneously [Trump, the Saudis and the Jooos]:
The “Washington Post” has obtained confirmation from US and other intelligence sources that an Israeli company provided cellphone spy technology used by Saud Arabia to spy on opponents like Jamal Khashoggi.....
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