Obama Admin Continues to Push ‘Transformative’ Effects of Iran Deal

The Obama administration continues to harbor hope that the recent nuclear deal with Iran will alter the Islamic regime’s behavior and produce a more stable and peaceful Middle East, according to recent reports, despite criticism from analysts who say the United States has a poor track record of using diplomacy alone to change the nature of rogue regimes.

While the administration is selling the agreement to skeptical lawmakers as a short-term measure that will prevent Iran from procuring a nuclear weapon, top U.S. officials still believe the deal could help achieve a new long-term equilibrium between warring Shiite and Sunni forces in the Middle East, the New York Times recently reported. A senior administration official told the Times that President Obama views the nuclear pact as an opportunity to help solve the “meta-conflict in the Middle East” between Shiite Iran and the Sunni leaders of Saudi Arabia.

However, previous U.S. efforts to transform rogue regimes through diplomacy were widely viewed as unsuccessful. In the case of North Korea, President Bill Clinton signed the Agreed Framework with Pyongyang in 1994, which placed constraints on its nuclear program but allowed it to eventually build two light-water reactors.

The Bush administration later discovered that North Korea was covertly enriching uranium, and Pyongyang tested its first nuclear weapon in 2006.

According to the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, who covered the breakdown in the Agreed Framework, “Some former Clinton administration officials will also concede that they never thought they would have to build the light-water reactors because they assumed, wrongly, that the regime would collapse before the reactors would be built. So one could argue that the Agreed Framework was built on a bad bet in the first place.”

if there is one thing we've learned about Obama during these past seven years is that he really has no concept of the word "hope". So reading the article how the Obama administration continues to harbor 'hope' that recent nuclear deal with Iran will alter the Islamic regime’s behavior and produce a more stable and peaceful Middle East the sense I feel is one of utter fear and anxiety. It is as enigmatic as it is naive beyond words how he can perceive any such conclusion regarding a peaceful Iran through some transformative effect. Maybe it's similar to the "I've got the gift" thingy going on in his head where he believes he has some power of persuasion to make the impossible come to fruition.

Another author who fails to state the obvious: Obama and his functionaries, hate the US, hate Israel and want to bring down Western civilization. They are terrorism enablers and Muslim lovers who intend to destroy or subjugate the infidels before a US empowered and funded Greater Caliphate. Millions of dead Christians, Jews and other infidels will be the result and Obama will celebrate the accomplishment.

Your comment is similar to what I myself was thinking. Throughout his tenure, Obama really has never demonstrated any sense of altruism, any proclivity that would demonstrate a feeling as peacemaker, a desire to ameliorate, facilitate a lessening of tensions, encourage peaceful sentiments the world over. The sign carried by the young men demonstrating at Tahrir Square in Cairo says it all. Obama is a Terrorist, a supporter and member of the Muslim Brotherhood. And if anything, he raised tensions, ousted a long time trusted ally in Mubarak and nearly brought the country to a war-like stance. He has done very little to help General Al-Sisi who ousted the Muslim Brotherhood and was rejected by the administration in dire need of military supplies.

So,the legacy of Obama's tenure is not one devoted to peace but just the opposite, which begs the question, why is it that he has all of a sudden become a big believer in peace? How is it that the world's number one terror state, one of its leaders having said, the first thing they would do wen they acquire nuclear weapons is to ignite the entire of Saudi Arabia's oil(Sunnis, Shi'ites consider each other more abominable than Jews) yet Obama sees some transformative power to which the Iranians will start selling girl scout cookies the moment the nuclear genie is out of the Iranian nuclear birthday box. So why does Obama of a sudden seek peace with the most duplicitous, war-mongering nation on Earth? Why does the Arab World cower in fear? You've given us the answer. None of what Obama seems to be dedicating to peace is legitimate. If anything, he wants Iran to acquire nuclear weapons as one of his legacies, as a blood-thirsty, homicidal nihilist out to see parts of the world destroyed.

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