Deputy national-security adviser and MFA in creative writing Ben Rhodes likened an Iranian nuclear deal to Obamacare in a talk to progressive activists last January, according to audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.The remarks, made at a since-discontinued regular meeting of White House personnel and representatives of liberal interest groups, reveal the importance of a rapprochement with Iran to President Obama, who is looking to establish his legacy as his presidency enters its lame-duck phase.“Bottom line is, this is the best opportunity we’ve had to resolve the Iranian issue diplomatically, certainly since President Obama came to office, and probably since the beginning of the Iraq war,” Rhodes said. “So no small opportunity, it’s a big deal. This is probably the biggest thing President Obama will do in his second term on foreign policy. This is health care for us, just to put it in context.”
Actually, it's been the agenda all along:
That is why Democrats called Bashar al-Assad a reformer, why Obama remained silent during the 2009 protests over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rigged election, why the State Department doesn’t include human rights or ballistic missiles in the scope of its negotiations with Iran. It is why Obama has resisted overthrowing Assad even after he crossed the red line of chemical-weapons use, why he refers to the “Islamic republic of Iran,” bestowing legitimacy on the revolutionary regime, and why administration officials reject congressional proposals to reinstate sanctions should the negotiations with Iran fail.
These decisions are not made in light of the national-security interests of the United States. They are made to keep alive President Obama’s dream of peace with Iran. And the purpose of these decisions isn’t to mollify American politicians. It’s to satisfy Iranian ones.
This is the supreme illustration of the chasm between the progressive insistence that human nature is collectively evolving and that sworn enemies can be made into "partners" and the way the world actually works.
Here's how the world actually works:
Iran has stopped answering the UN nuclear watchdog's questions about its suspected past efforts to design nuclear weapons.
This according to a report on Friday in The New York Times.
Yukiya Amano, the director general of the IAEA said Friday that Iran failed to provide more information on what Amano termed "possible military dimensions," of its nuclear program.
According to the Times, Amano said that cooperation had not been forthcoming, despite receiving assurances from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that Iran "would clarify the ambiguity," with regard to documents that appear to show work on nuclear weapons.
“What is needed now is action,” the Times quoted Amano saying in reference to a list of around a dozen issues that require Iranian clarification.
An IAEA report issued in early September showed Iran had failed to answer questions by an Aug. 25 deadline about what the UN agency calls the possible military dimensions of the country's nuclear program.
The IAEA is tasked with checking that Iran is living up to its part of the interim agreement with six world powers reached in November of last year, which was designed to buy time for the current talks on a comprehensive solution of the stand-off that would dispel fears of a new Middle East war.
Another one of those top-priority moves we expect of the new Congress we're likely to get: thwart this madness. Stop the patty-cake. Find out how the regime is planning to work around the legislative branch and have a plan for defeating it.
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