Iran supreme leader taunts prez: Obama’s fantasy of nuke deal does not have a prayer
Considering how easy it would be for the Iranian regime to get everything it wants from the current administration, it’s a little startling to see the “supreme leader” brazenly poking his finger into the president’s eye. Barack Obama’s fond hopes — nurtured since before his first inauguration — to forge a new, better relationship with the “Islamic Republic” have come to this:
Speaking to a large crowd assembled to mark the 25th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death, “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei declared his continuing belief that America is the Great Satan. “Battle and jihad are endless,” he said. “This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought.” Arrayed behind the cleric was a banner reading, “America cannot do a damn thing!” (emphasis added)
If you’re wondering what the Ayatollah Khamenei meant by that (and you may if you’re an Obama appointee or a State Department official), Khamenei was good enough to explain: “They have renounced the idea of any military actions.”
Khamenei was responding directly to the president’s West Point speech in which he signaled American reluctance to use military force. (emphasis added) “Just because we have the best hammer does not mean every problem is a nail,” Obama told the cadets. He went further, urging that all of our recent troubles are attributable to “rushing into military adventures without thinking through the consequences.”
The president spoke so long and so intently about renouncing military action and winding down wars that Khamenei got the message loud and clear. Obama also included his threadbare threat that “we reserve all options to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon” — now a bleat. Khamenei’s answer was written on that banner.
Khamenei knows that far from considering any sort of military strike against Iran, Obama has worked assiduously to prevent Congress from imposing any further sanctions.
This administration persists in the delusion that diplomacy and military force are opposite poles. National security adviser Susan Rice told the Israelis last month that “diplomacy is the best way to stop Iran’s nuclear program.” The president echoed this, saying “for the first time in a decade, we have a very real chance of achieving a breakthrough agreement, one that is more effective and durable than we could have achieved through the use of force.”
Iran has excellent reasons to trust that Obama will make a very bad deal on its nuclear program.(emphasis added)
Even after five years in office, years that have seen Iran brutally suppress peaceful protesters, torture and kill political prisoners, persecute religious minorities, ship arms to terrorist groups, and prop up the genocidal regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, Obama clings to the notion that Iran can be trusted to abandon its nuclear weapons program if we just concoct the right words on paper in Geneva.
Iran, sitting atop a pool of oil and gas, does not need nuclear power for energy generation. It has spent a fortune building a network of secret underground uranium-enrichment facilities. It has invested in ballistic-missile technology. It has withstood international pressure and sanctions to build a plutonium plant that can only be used for nuclear weapons fuel. And Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Javad Zarif, has declared that Iran has an “inalienable right” to enrich uranium.
Far from delivering a rebuke to this disgusting hijacking of Thomas Jefferson’s words by a criminal regime, Obama responds with conciliatory drivel about negotiations.
When former President Ronald Reagan appointed Jeane Kirkpatrick as U.S. envoy to the U.N., he gave these marching orders: “You’re taking off that big sign that we used to wear that said, ‘Kick Me.’ ”
It’s back.
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist.
Unites States Without A Prayer
Considering how easy it would be for the Iranian regime to get everything it wants from the current administration, it’s a little startling to see the “supreme leader” brazenly poking his finger into the president’s eye. Barack Obama’s fond hopes — nurtured since before his first inauguration — to forge a new, better relationship with the “Islamic Republic” have come to this:
Speaking to a large crowd assembled to mark the 25th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death, “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei declared his continuing belief that America is the Great Satan. “Battle and jihad are endless,” he said. “This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought.” Arrayed behind the cleric was a banner reading, “America cannot do a damn thing!” (emphasis added)
If you’re wondering what the Ayatollah Khamenei meant by that (and you may if you’re an Obama appointee or a State Department official), Khamenei was good enough to explain: “They have renounced the idea of any military actions.”
Khamenei was responding directly to the president’s West Point speech in which he signaled American reluctance to use military force. (emphasis added) “Just because we have the best hammer does not mean every problem is a nail,” Obama told the cadets. He went further, urging that all of our recent troubles are attributable to “rushing into military adventures without thinking through the consequences.”
The president spoke so long and so intently about renouncing military action and winding down wars that Khamenei got the message loud and clear. Obama also included his threadbare threat that “we reserve all options to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon” — now a bleat. Khamenei’s answer was written on that banner.
Khamenei knows that far from considering any sort of military strike against Iran, Obama has worked assiduously to prevent Congress from imposing any further sanctions.
This administration persists in the delusion that diplomacy and military force are opposite poles. National security adviser Susan Rice told the Israelis last month that “diplomacy is the best way to stop Iran’s nuclear program.” The president echoed this, saying “for the first time in a decade, we have a very real chance of achieving a breakthrough agreement, one that is more effective and durable than we could have achieved through the use of force.”
Iran has excellent reasons to trust that Obama will make a very bad deal on its nuclear program.(emphasis added)
Even after five years in office, years that have seen Iran brutally suppress peaceful protesters, torture and kill political prisoners, persecute religious minorities, ship arms to terrorist groups, and prop up the genocidal regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, Obama clings to the notion that Iran can be trusted to abandon its nuclear weapons program if we just concoct the right words on paper in Geneva.
Iran, sitting atop a pool of oil and gas, does not need nuclear power for energy generation. It has spent a fortune building a network of secret underground uranium-enrichment facilities. It has invested in ballistic-missile technology. It has withstood international pressure and sanctions to build a plutonium plant that can only be used for nuclear weapons fuel. And Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Javad Zarif, has declared that Iran has an “inalienable right” to enrich uranium.
Far from delivering a rebuke to this disgusting hijacking of Thomas Jefferson’s words by a criminal regime, Obama responds with conciliatory drivel about negotiations.
When former President Ronald Reagan appointed Jeane Kirkpatrick as U.S. envoy to the U.N., he gave these marching orders: “You’re taking off that big sign that we used to wear that said, ‘Kick Me.’ ”
It’s back.
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist.
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