Posted on 10/20/2014 2:03:41 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Never mind the negotiations with Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program. Far more urgent developments are afoot. While the foreign ministers were busily counting how many centrifuges could spin in Iranian facilities, President Obama and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have arranged a working relationship throughout the Middle East that effectively puts American policy at the service of Iran.
Long the goal of Obama, who sent a private emissary to Tehran as early as the 2008 election campaign to tell the Khamenei regime he wanted to be their friend, there is now a de facto alliance between the two countries. Notwithstanding the often nasty rhetoric from the two capitals, the United States is very careful not to challenge Iranian interests in hot spots like Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
• In Syria, despite numerous threats and promises to arm Sunni militias who are fighting the regime of Iran's close ally, President Bashar Assad, very little assistance has reached Syrian opposition forces. That is in keeping with what Khamenei has called the single-most important Iranian strategic objective: the victory of Assad. Iran has committed many thousand soldiers and intelligence officers to defend Assad, and Iranian casualties — extremely unpopular among the restive domestic population — are substantial, including at least two generals.
U.S. bombing in Syria is carefully limited to Assad's enemies; no level of slaughter has been deemed sufficient for U.S. action against the Syrian forces or their allies. Obama even tolerates the use of chemical weapons.
The Obama administration officially denies it is working closely with Tehran. As Michael Doran has pointed out, the White House and State Department have jumped through very high linguistic hoops to obscure the closeness of U.S.-Iranian coordination: "No, we're not going to coordinate," Secretary of State John Kerry said in reference to Iran's client Assad and the military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). "We will certainly want to de-conflict ... but we're not going to coordinate."
• In Iraq, the Iranian regime now effectively calls the shots in several crucial areas, especially in the oil-rich south around Basra. Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani and former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad long denied the presence of Iranian armed forces in Iraq, but in recent months the Revolutionary Guards' infamous leader, General Qassem Soleimani, has posed for photographs all over the country, "under the cover of the [U.S.] Air Force," as Tony Badram reminds us:
"Soleimani models in different settings. ... There's the jovial Hajj Qassem dancing, weapon in hand, with Iraqi forces. Then there's Soleimani the General visiting his men on the front, shaking hands with Peshmerga from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan or with fighters from the Shiite militias he runs."
Tehran military leaders repeatedly brag about their active role. American armed forces are in Iraq, but Washington insists their mission is strictly defensive: They will defend American diplomats and facilities, not engage in actually fighting Baghdad's enemies. On-ground control is thus ceded to Iran.
• Iran has taken effective control of Yemen. The capital, Sanaa, is festooned with banners and posters bearing the Hezbollah imprimatur and pictures of the late Ayatollah Khomeini alongside slogans such as "Death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews and victory to Islam." This gives Tehran control over the Gulf of Aden, and thus the Persian Gulf and access to the Suez Canal. While countless strategists have warned about the centrality of the Straits of Hormuz for the world's oil supplies, control over the Gulf of Aden is even more threatening. Washington has been conspicuously low-key about this blow to Western interests and the significant Iranian advance. Nor have we taken any meaningful steps to stop, let alone reverse, the Iranian coup.
Nuclear deal or not, American collaboration with Iran is extremely dangerous, as Khamenei pushes for greater hegemony in the Middle East and, indeed, worldwide. Mohammed Ali Jaafari, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, made this clear in a recent speech about the Guards' role in exporting the Iranian Revolution:
"The mission of the Ghods Force is external, to help Islamic movements, to expand the revolution and to provide assistance to suffering people across the world ... and to people who need help in such countries as Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. The Guards ... views its duty to support and defend the nations under the hegemony of America and Israel and to provide them any technology, something that is even more important than the transfer of weapons."
Do we really want an alliance with such a regime? Is the spread of the Iranian Revolution a legitimate goal of American foreign policy? If not, our collaboration with Tehran must stop.
Ledeen, the author of more than 30 books, is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He was special adviser to former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and a consultant to the national security adviser during the Reagan administration.
Valerie. Jarrett.
Obama is the USA’s biggest terrorist threat.
Maybe Barack’s a Shiite now.
If it wasn’t for Carter, the Imperial Iranian Army would be mopping up the pathetic remnants of ISIS by now.
The Shah was the true pillar that kept the rest of the Middle East in check, and held Israel in high esteem.
Obama taking over where the incredible fool Carter left off.
This alliance will only last two years, assuming the world doesn’t fall apart in the meantime; not even Hillary! is that stupid to keep such an alliance going.
Unfortunately every single U.S. admin since Carter has either negotiated with or formed some type of alliance with the mullahs, no matter how temporary. Alliance is fleeting as Carter demonstrated with the Shah too.
They are also linked to Turkey, Hamas and N. Korea.
Obama is an undocumented traitor.
Not even a birth certificate.
A Shiite head is more like it.
So, can an illegal alien be convicted of treason ( perhaps based on the oath of office he deliberately failed to take correctly ?)?
This back door partnership was apparent as early as 2009 with the popular insurrection in Iran over rigged national elections. Rather than seizing on the opportunities the revolt presented Obama announced he would not “meddle.”
...Long the goal of Obama, who sent a private emissary to Tehran as early as the 2008 election campaign to tell the Khamenei regime he wanted to be their friend, there is now a de facto alliance between the two countries... the [Obama regime] is very careful not to challenge Iranian interests in hot spots like Syria, Iraq and Yemen... very little assistance has reached Syrian opposition forces... Iran has committed many thousand soldiers and intelligence officers to defend Assad... U.S. bombing in Syria is carefully limited to Assad's enemies; no... U.S. action against the Syrian forces or their allies. Obama even tolerates the use of chemical weapons... In Iraq, the Iranian regime now effectively calls the shots... President Hassan Rouhani and former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad long denied the presence of Iranian armed forces in Iraq, but in recent months the Revolutionary Guards' infamous leader, General Qassem Soleimani, has posed for photographs all over the country...
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“Try the spirits”
She is only interested in one thing... attention.
And she will do anything for it.
Those capable, knowing this, can therefore get anything they want out of her.
Birth pangs growing more frequent.
Who will be making the coming peace deal with Israel vs. the surrounding of Shiite armies?
For a “times times.”
Lu:21:20: And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Lu:21:21: Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
Lu:21:22: For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Lu:21:23: But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
Lu:21:24: And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Lu:21:25: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Lu:21:26: Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Lu:21:27: And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Lu:21:28: And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Lu:21:29: And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
Lu:21:30: When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
Lu:21:31: So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Lu:21:32: Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
Lu:21:33: Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Lu:21:34: And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Lu:21:35: For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Lu:21:36: Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Lu:21:37: And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
Lu:21:38: And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
2008 : (GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSHKA FISCHER [see BAADER MEINHOF TERRORISTS] PUSHES OBAMA FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN ) The push for Obama to begin nuclear negotiations with Iran came from RAF terrorist Joschka Fischer in 2008. Links in this ancient thread seem to still be working above, too!
The switch in policy for Obama to turn on Assad by waging war in Syria came from Robert Malley to Obama at some point between 2008 and 2011.
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2008 : (CANDIDATE OBAMA SENDS PRIVATE EMMISARY TO IRAN)
Obama, who sent a private emissary to Tehran as early as the 2008 election campaign to tell the Khamenei regime he wanted to be their friend——— The Obama-Khamenei alliance, The Hill, October 20, 2014 | Michael Ledeen
Posted on 10/20/2014, 5:03:41 PM by Ooh-Ah
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