Ken Berwitz
This one is for the people (and, sad to say, there are a good many of them) who remain under the delusion that Iran has any credibility at all in adhering to the nuclear “deal” cooked up by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry.
You know; the “deal” for which negotiations dragged on for months while Iran\’s sanctions were suspended (thus giving it an infusion of capital as it continued to build its nuclear weaponry). The “deal” in which Obama and Kerry caved on just about every major part of what they originally claimed it had to include.
Excerpted from Amir Taheri\’s article in yesterday\’s New York Post:
While Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama do their best to paper over the brutality of the Iranian regime and force through a nuclear agreement, Iran\’s religious leader has another issue on his mind: The destruction of Israel.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a new book called “Palestine,” a 416-page screed against the Jewish state. A blurb on the back cover credits Khamenei as “The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem.”
A friend sent me a copy from Iran, the only place the book is currently available, though an Arabic translation is promised soon.
(Khamenei) uses three words. One is “nabudi” which means “annihilation.” The other is “imha” which means “fading out,” and, finally, there is “zaval” meaning “effacement.”
…according to Khamenei, Israel, which he labels as “adou” and “doshman,” meaning “enemy” and “foe,” is a special case for three reasons.
The first is that it is a loyal “ally of the American Great Satan” and a key element in its “evil scheme” to dominate “the heartland of the Ummah.”
In other words, just weeks after the “deal\’ was agreed to – a deal which, let us not forget, Iran has already reneged on by telling us it will not allow any inspections of its military facilities (which means we can\’t check to see if it is working on nuclear weaponry in those facilities – how convenient) – the Supreme Leader of Iran issues a book that reaffirms it intends to annihilate Israel.
And the first reason it gives? Israel is a loyal ally of the American Great Satan — that would be us, Iran\’s new “peace partner”.
Will this latest demonstration that Iran has no intention of making good on any “deal” with the USA wake these people up?
Well, the fact that Iran\’s weekly demonstrations in which they scream “Death to Israel! Death to America” didn\’t. So I\’m guessing the answer is no.
But for people who allow logic and common sense rather than mindless, robotic political partisanship to influence their opinions, I would think the answer is yes. I certainly hope so.
This “deal” is a joke. And so are the people who cooked it up – who we have to endure for the next 18 months of the Obama administration.
How I wish time could move faster.
