Posted on 01/19/2016 4:23:43 PM PST by Kaslin
Is the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, a RINO -- a revolutionary in name only?
So they must be muttering around the barracks of the Iranian Republican Guard Corps today.
For while American hawks are saying we gave away the store to Tehran, consider what ayatollah agreed to.
Last week, he gave his blessing to the return of 10 U.S. sailors who intruded into Iranian waters within hours of capture. He turned loose four Americans convicted of spying. And he gave final approval to a nuclear deal that is a national humiliation.
Ordered by the U.S. and Security Council to prove Iran was not lying when it said it had no nuclear weapons program -- an assertion supported by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies "with high confidence" in 2007 -- the ayatollah had to submit to the following demands:
Decommission 12,000 Iranian centrifuges, including all the advanced ones at Fordow, ship out of the country 98 percent of its enriched uranium, remove the core of its heavy-water reactor in Arak and fill it with concrete, and allow U.N. inspectors to crawl all over Iran's nuclear facilities for years to come.
Iran is being treated by the great powers like an ex-con on parole who must be monitored and fitted with an ankle bracelet.
Why did the ayatollah capitulate to these demands?
Comes the reply: To get $100 billion. But the money Iran is getting back belongs to Iran. It is not foreign aid. The funds had been frozen until Iran accepted our conditions. The sanctions worked.
There is another reason Tehran may have submitted.
When Iran said it did not have a nuclear bomb program, it was telling the truth. Indeed, it is Iran's accusers, many from the same crowd that misled and lied to us when they said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, whose credibility is in question today.
Iran's accusers should produce their evidence, if any, that Iran had, or still has, a nuclear bomb program.
Otherwise, they should shut up with the lying and goading the U.S. into another war that will leave us with another trillion-dollar debt, ashes in our mouths, and thousands more dead and wounded warriors.
Yet, if Iran does not have a nuclear bomb program, we must ask: Why not? And the answer suggests itself: Because Iran concluded, years ago, that an atom bomb would make it less not more secure.
For, as soon as Iran tested a bomb, a nuclear arms race would be on in the Mideast with Saudis, Turks and Egyptians all in competition.
The Israelis would put their nuclear arsenal on a hair trigger. And most dangerous for Iran, she would find herself confronting the USA.
That gave us four of five, we gave then 21 hostages; any arms race began when Iran constantly publicized their own attempts to develop one; and the accusers you say we shouldn’t trust most likely starts with Netanyahu, the prime minister of a semitic country, Buck, that you keep being accused of not trusting at all.
If they’re bluffing like Saddam, we should treat them like they’re on the verge of a bomb which their government obviously wants us to believe. That means no $150 bill ransom.
Pat, if they didn’t have a program, there’d be no centrifuges to decommission. And there wouldn’t have been that nasty ‘accident’ a while back when some of their equipment failed, or before that the mess made of their Siemans equipment...
They get to keep the core. The only thing they’re filling up is a hole.
In fact they might be OK with the UN nosing around Fordow because there might not be much worth looking at at Fordow since January 2013, and they’ve restarted elsewhere.
Does the agreement let us snoop all over their other sites or just Fordow?
Did we just make a deal for the shutdown of something already put out of commission a few years ago?
http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Report-Israelis-confirm-blast-at-Fordow-facility
Note that we didn’t ‘find’ this particular site until 2009 - when Obama was in office. How long it has been there isn’t known.
Obviously before he came to office there were concerns about other, earlier sites. What of them?
Pure deception. All they need is a dirty bomb that can be released in the atmosphere to create an electro magnetic burst and wipe out our grid.
Thanks to this agreement, they’ll be able to say, “who me?”
You’re not going to get an EMP from a dirty bomb. Doesn’t work that way.
A dirty bomb is just a conventional explosion used to disperse radioactive material... more of a nuisance than a real killer.
Sept 2009 specifically.
Wonder what was going on in North Korea in Jan 2013?
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