Moving beyond patty-cake to out-and-out siding with the West's most threatening enemy

We should be very, very alarmed at what is coming out of that Munich security conference:

Failure to clinch a multilateral agreement over Iran's nuclear program will undermine the leadership of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, considered a pragmatist relative to Iran's political spectrum, Tehran's foreign minister warned US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday.

At a security conference in Munich, the two leaders met to discuss ongoing negotiations over the nuclear program— and that program only, according to American officials. But the warning from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underscored core motivations driving Western diplomats in the talks: The realignment of Tehran towards cooperation with Washington elsewhere in the region, from Syria and Iraq to Yemen and Lebanon.

That is a departure from their original goal, set explicitly at the beginning of negotiations, to dismember Iran's nuclear program thoroughly and permanently.

Rare is Zarif's acknowledgment of US influence in Iranian politics: The 1979 revolution, and the regime born from it, was a sweeping rejection of American involvement in Iran's domestic affairs. Today, politics within the country fiercely debate whether to accept a nuclear deal— or any deal— with the government's oldest foe.

But reports began surfacing last week that the Obama administration is offering Iran technical concessions on its nuclear infrastructure in exchange for Iran's use of its leverage to tamper regional turmoil.

This whole business of seeking to shore up "pragmatic" elements in the Iranian regime requires a complete ignoring of the pronouncements of the supreme ayatollah Khameini about the US remaining the number-one enemy - uttered over and over again.

Our West-hating rulers are scaring the daylights out of me.