David Horovitz on Obama’s bad deal, and how he has misrepresented what Netanyahu has called for — which is to recognize Iran’s economic weakness, and exploit it, by threatening further sanctions, unless Iran agrees not to mothball, but to destroy, the most important components of its nuclear-bomb project. That weakness comes from two main changes: first, the enormous sudden drop in oil revenues, which are down to 1/4 of what they were just a few years ago, because Iranian production, and the price per barrel, have both been cut in half, and second, the drought that has caused a major lake to dry up completely in eastern Iran, and done great damage across the country to agriculture.
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One Response
Obama and Kerry don’t have the fortitude for dealing with rogue regimes. The two of them said on a number of occasions that if we pressed the mullahs, Iran would walk from the talks. They Iranian threats at face value, as if the two of them knew nothing about diplomatic showdowns. Obama and Kerry didn’t have the nerves to call their bluff. If they had, and Iran walked away, they could have waited for Iran to cave in once more sanctions were imminent.
And if Iran didn’t return we would have known they were not serious about any agreement that placed any kind of serious restrictions on their nuclear program.
What now for the West? Will the French step up and reject the “deal” now that Iran doesn’t seem satisfied with even the levels of national abasement Obama has taken the U.S. to?