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Hard as they try, U.S. negotiators can't seem to appease Iran's rulers but they did
Clifford D. May
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Hilly: Check Your Subpoena Folder
In her first interview on national television news since she announced her candidacy, Hilly Clinton told CNN Tuesday, "I think it's kind of fun" that she's releasing 50,000 pages of her emails. When interviewer Brianna Keilar pressed Clinton about Congress' subpoena of her emails, Clinton responded by attacking the reporter and catching herself before she gave us a really juicy quote: "You're starting with so many assumptions that are — I've never had a subpoena. There is no — Again, let's take a deep breath here. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation" There are two lies right there. In response to the interview, Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy wrote, "[S]he was personally subpoenaed the moment the Benghazi Committee became aware of her exclusive use of personal email and a server, and that the State department was not the custodian of her official record. For more than two years, Clinton never availed herself of the opportunity, even in response to a direct congressional inquiry, to inform the public of her unusual email arrangement designed to evade public transparency." Either Clinton doesn't care when she's caught in a lie, or her web of lies have become so complex that she can't keep her story straight anymore. -The Patriot Post
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Racist Republicans Hate Children
"GOP has knives out for school lunch rules," headlines The Hill. "First lady Michelle nObama's signature school lunch regulations are ... a pillar of the first lady's initiative to curb childhood obesity in the United States," The Hill informs us. And who could be against healthy kids? Or the first lady? Evil Republicans, that's who. Never mind that top-down regulation virtually never works, or that kids universally hate the new lunches to the point that schools are dropping them and/or demanding changes. The bottom line is that the 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) expires on Sept. 30, and Republicans are holding hearings to determine if it's worth more than the $3 billion already spent to dump unwanted food in the trash. In 2014, Michelle lectured, "The last thing that we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids' health." But playing politics is the name of the game. The first lady — an honorary and not official position, by the way — can't federalize school lunches and then insist it's not political. -The Patriot Post
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loose lips BIDEN’S CAMPAIGN TAKING SHAPE
With Hilly Clinton’s campaign continuing to face resistance from little-known challengers, there are new signs that she could finally get some big-name opposition.
The sea change in the Democratic race may have come two weeks ago when it was revealed that Vice President loose lips Joe Biden’s son, Beau, had encouraged his father to mount another presidential campaign. The younger Biden died in May at age 46 of complications from brain cancer, cutting short a career that many Democrats saw as having national potential.
Word from loose lips Biden’s inner circle that a long-considered campaign had Beau Biden’s blessing was the strongest sign yet that the veep might really take the plunge. A third long-shot presidential run is one thing, but one in memory of a son is quite another.
Today, the speculation begins to take shape.
Shiva Sarram, a major nObama fundraiser and grassroots organizer has joined the outside group creating a campaign-in-waiting should loose lips Biden opt for another face-off with Clinton. WashEx reports that Sarram joins another top nObama bundler, Jon Cooper, who enlisted last week as the group’s national finance chair. “The Draft loose lips Biden PAC has over 100,000 signatures, teams in the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, as well as volunteers in every state. While the group won’t release its fundraising numbers until the July 15 deadline, executive director William Pierce claims the cash influx exceeded all expectations. ‘This is a rebirth for the VP,’ Pierce said.” -Fox News
With Hilly Clinton’s campaign continuing to face resistance from little-known challengers, there are new signs that she could finally get some big-name opposition.
The sea change in the Democratic race may have come two weeks ago when it was revealed that Vice President loose lips Joe Biden’s son, Beau, had encouraged his father to mount another presidential campaign. The younger Biden died in May at age 46 of complications from brain cancer, cutting short a career that many Democrats saw as having national potential.
Word from loose lips Biden’s inner circle that a long-considered campaign had Beau Biden’s blessing was the strongest sign yet that the veep might really take the plunge. A third long-shot presidential run is one thing, but one in memory of a son is quite another.
Today, the speculation begins to take shape.
Shiva Sarram, a major nObama fundraiser and grassroots organizer has joined the outside group creating a campaign-in-waiting should loose lips Biden opt for another face-off with Clinton. WashEx reports that Sarram joins another top nObama bundler, Jon Cooper, who enlisted last week as the group’s national finance chair. “The Draft loose lips Biden PAC has over 100,000 signatures, teams in the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, as well as volunteers in every state. While the group won’t release its fundraising numbers until the July 15 deadline, executive director William Pierce claims the cash influx exceeded all expectations. ‘This is a rebirth for the VP,’ Pierce said.” -Fox News
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Hackers Stole Data on 8% of U.S. Population From OPM
The data breach at the Office of Personnel Management feels like some kind of twisted auction. In early June, it was the data of four million federal employees. Any higher? Hey, it's the middle of June and the number has risen to 14 million and the applications of everyone seeking a security clearance. Going, going… Wait, OPM announced Thursday there was a second hack affecting 21.5 million Americans who worked for the government, contracted with the government, or were married to or friends with someone who was. Not only were Social Security numbers, names and birthdates taken, the hackers (probably from China) have addresses, mental health history, some financial records and fingerprints of a significant percentage of the American population. The breach extends to people like FBI Director James Comey, who admitted he, too, had his data stolen in the breach. OPM said taxpayers would foot the bill for three years of identity-theft protection from a private company for those affected. But for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, it's not enough. In a statement, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said he wanted OPM Director (and former National Political Director for nObama's campaign) Katherine Archuleta gone. "The technological and security failures at the Office of Personnel Management predate this director's term," Warner said, "but Director Archuleta's slow and uneven response has not inspired confidence that she is the right person to manage OPM through this crisis." -The Patriot Post
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nObama’s pet watchdog left veterans out in the cold
{Betsy McCaughey} ~ Griffin had whitewashed and concealed information about inadequate care and phony waiting lists and tried to retaliate against truth-tellers... But don’t expect real improvement at the VA. Griffin’s successor is another bureaucratic lifer, Lin Halliday. She’s been collecting a paycheck from the VA Inspector General’s Office since 1992, while the deadly problems festered. President nObama seems to like that approach. On July 2 in Wisconsin, whistleblower Ryan Honl – a Gulf War veteran – urged nObama to appoint an independent inspector general: “If they just pick someone new from inside the agency, it will be business as usual and the problems will continue.” But nObama brushed him off, saying VA Secretary Robert McDonald “had it covered.” Sorry. That’s just not true.
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FBI data backs up Trump claims on illegals and crime
{Aaron Klein} ~ Largely unreported data published by the FBI appears to back up Donald Trump’s contentions regarding illegal aliens from Mexico committing drug and violent crime offenses in the U.S...
According to the FBI, criminal gangs – in some regions comprised significantly of illegal aliens – are wreaking havoc in the U.S., with 65 jurisdictions nationwide reporting gang-related offenses committed with firearms account for at least 95 percent of crime in those areas. The FBI further documented gangs in Southwestern border regions consisting of up to 80 percent illegal aliens were committing a multitude of crimes in America, “including drug-related crimes, weapons trafficking, alien smuggling, human trafficking, prostitution, extortion, robbery, auto theft, assault, homicide, racketeering, and money laundering.” The information was contained in the FBI’s 79-page National Gang Report published in 2013, the most recently released extensive agency report providing an overview of gang activities and trends in the United States. http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/fbi-data-backs-up-trump-claims-on-illegals-and-crime/
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China’s miracle is over — now comes the nightmare
{Michael Auslin} ~ China’s stock market meltdown isn’t the end of the Chinese miracle — that already happened... Instead, the 30 percent plunge in stock prices in just a month — wiping out $3 trillion worth of wealth — is just more evidence that China’s high-flying days are over. The big question is whether the Communist government can contain the stock collapse, focus on needed economic reforms and, most of all, maintain the confidence of the Chinese people. The panic seems to be spreading, as worldwide commodity prices have fallen, thereby causing a drop in the value of the yuan. These newbie investors are the ones getting wiped out, and are fleeing the market to cut their losses, thereby driving it down further. However, the broader lack of confidence in the government’s ability to control the rout means that longtime investors are also pulling out, worsening the cycle. All this is part of a bigger problem: the end of China’s economic miracle.
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Bill's cheating made Hilly an expert in 'fudging' facts
{Becket Adams} ~ Carl Bernstein suggested this week Hilly Clinton's ability to blur the line between fact and fiction comes from her years of defending Bill Clinton from women who say they've had some form of sexual relationship with the 42nd president... The Democratic presidential candidate, Bernstein said, has a tenuous relationship with the truth. So much so, he added, that she is now something of a "specialist" in "fudging" the facts. "Why has she become a kind of specialist?" the renowned Watergate reporter asked after Clinton's widely-criticized interview on CNN. "It has to do, I think, with the peculiarity of the Clinton situation. It had partly to do with the history of Bill Clinton and women in which she's had to defend him. It's been very difficult to do with the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
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ONLY 60 SHOWED UP, ANOTHER nOBAMA FLOP
{Jim Emerson} ~ nObama’s plan to raise and train an army of Syrian rebels to take on ISIS has become yet another strategic foreign policy embarrassment, this one costing American taxpayers $500 million... Only 50 Syrian fighters volunteered to receive training from the US Army, far short of an effective force to fight ISIS. The initial plan was to train 5,400 troops. Most likely the Syrian rebels are well aware of nObama’s previous actions in the Middle East, but since Iran has sided with the Assad regime, who is going to protect them and their families once the Iranians get the bomb? Secretary of Defense Ash Carter pointed out that the figure was small in the early stages of the program with just 60 soldiers making it through the vetting process. After all, the Regime doesn’t want to repeat the mistake of training Syrian Rebels to overthrow Al-Assad only to wind up creating ISIS! Besides, nObama feels more comfortable training the Muslim Brotherhood supported rebels. He knows them to be friends already, given his longtime association with that particular terrorist organization.
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Democrat says the First Amendment only Applies at Church!
{Onan Coca} ~ I’m not kidding about the title here, folks. A couple of weeks ago Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) was on Up with Steve Kornacki on MSNBC when she argued that the First Amendment really only applies to “institutions of faith.”... This is simply not true. At the very least it’s a horribly bad understanding of the First Amendment, and at the worst she’s another fascist Democrat who simply wants to force conservatives to act in a manner deemed appropriate by liberal culture warriors. I’d argue that she can’t be stupid enough to read the First Amendment and somehow come up with this notion that it doesn’t extend far beyond the house of worship. So, I can only surmise that she is indeed looking for the easiest way to shut her opponents up – which is par for the course for the modern Democrat party. http://eaglerising.com/20748/democrat-says-the-first-amendment-only-applies-at-church/
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nObama’s Muslim Brotherhood Insider Condemns Confederate Flag...
{rickwells.us} ~ As if we needed any more evidence that the Department of Homeland Security is a mechanism established for the destruction of the United States, a development today reminds us of a former top-level security clearance credentialed employee who was also an activist during his tenure at DHS for the Muslim Brotherhood... nObama had Janet Napolitano appoint Muslim Brotherhood “sympathizer” Mohamed Elibiary to the Homeland Security Advisory Council in 2010. At the time it was just as mystifying as it is today, how an Egyptian with strong ties to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood might somehow benefit the United States by having access to some of our most confidential and sensitive information. Elibiary is now working to promote the conversion of Texas into a Muslim state and who knows what else. Once again, apparently overcome with the pride of attacks on basicAmerican values by his former employers and comrades within the nObama regime, Elibiary took to twitter to espouse his disparaging views on America. http://rickwells.us/obamas-muslim-brotherhood-insider-condemns-confederate-flag-tenth-amendment-with-allahu-akbar/
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NAACP President Arrested For Cocaine Trafficking
{rickwells.us} ~ Inequality, a lack of opportunity or slavery cant’ be blamed, and neither can a southern battle flag... Unlike a previous embarrassment for the NAACP, this incident actually involves a real black person; the president of their local Muncie, Indiana chapter. Miles was not only the NAACP president; he also had a good job in public transportation. The Star Press reported that on Wednesday, Assistant Director of Transportation forMuncie Indiana Transit System, MITS, Timothy Wade Miles, 49, was arrested on charges of selling cocaine to an informant. To make matters worse, Miles was in a company vehicle at the time of the transaction and subsequent arrest. It was the third setup sale that Miles fell for under a sting conducted by the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office’s Drug Unit.
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Megyn Kelly: Why Is nObama Ignoring Murder Of Katie Steinle?
{Debra Heine} ~ Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple accused Megyn Kelly of “crossing a line” on her Fox show, The Kelly File,Thursday night because she had the audacity to ask a question a lot of Americans are wondering about... Why doesn’t the president give Katie Steinle, the woman killed by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, the same attention he gave to cases involving Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin? Kate’s murder has since exploded into a national debate on illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities and crime. With the White House ducking the issue of its own acquiescence in these cities’ decision to flout the federal immigration laws which were duly enacted. When asked repeatedly this week to speak to this case, White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to weigh in other than to refer folks to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Iran deal ‘done,’ Israeli report says, after major US concessions
{Times of Israel Staff} ~ A deal has been reached between the world powers and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program after a series of major American concessions, Ehud Yaari, the Middle East affairs commentator for Israel’s Channel 2 television, said Friday night... “It is done. It is done,” he said, and will be signed “early next week.” The aim of the agreement is to put a negotiated end to a 13-year standoff with Iran over its suspect nuclear program and to block its pathway to developing a nuclear bomb in exchange for lifting biting global sanctions. Israel’s leadership has relentlessly opposed the emerging agreement, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that it will pave Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal. According to Yaari, Israel’s most respected Middle East analyst, the deal was reached because the Americans “have made a series of capitulations over the past two to three weeks in almost every key aspect that was being debated.” Yaari said that even those in the US who had supported the agreement with Iran “admit that it is worse than they thought.” Now, he said, the ball is in the court of Democratic lawmakers who have to decide whether to support their president as he seeks to secure Congressional approval, or to join the vocal Republican opposition to an agreement. http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-deal-said-finalized-with-major-us-concessions/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=1133bae8d6-2015_07_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-1133bae8d6-54638825
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Hard as they try, U.S. negotiators can't seem to appease Iran's rulers but they did
Clifford D. May
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. {jewishworldreview.com} ~ Imagine if, on Sept. 12, 2001, I had written a column predicting that within less than 15 years, the president of the United States would be offering the world's leading sponsor of terrorism a path to nuclear weapons and tens of billions of dollars. You'd have thought me a lunatic. But that's what President nObama means to do..
What's gumming up the works? Every time Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry thinks he has found a creative way to cave in to some Iranian demand, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei comes up with a new "red line."
What's gumming up the works? Every time Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry thinks he has found a creative way to cave in to some Iranian demand, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei comes up with a new "red line."
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Just to be clear: There can be no doubt that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. No less an authority than the U.S. government has affirmed that many times over. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans have been killed and maimed by Iranian-backed militias and proxies in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan - although a plan to blow up a posh restaurant in Georgetown did go astray.
Just to be clear: There can be no doubt that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. No less an authority than the U.S. government has affirmed that many times over. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans have been killed and maimed by Iranian-backed militias and proxies in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan - although a plan to blow up a posh restaurant in Georgetown did go astray.
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The founding principle of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution was "Death to America." Even as Iranian negotiators have smiled across the table at their American counterparts, that chant has been repeated - not least by Ayatollah Khamenei himself.
The founding principle of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution was "Death to America." Even as Iranian negotiators have smiled across the table at their American counterparts, that chant has been repeated - not least by Ayatollah Khamenei himself.
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All this and more is elided by those determined to believe that, with the signing of an agreement, Iran will become what Mr. nObama has called a "successful regional power." And why anyone would think that description implies something beneficial for America and America's allies is a mystery.
All this and more is elided by those determined to believe that, with the signing of an agreement, Iran will become what Mr. nObama has called a "successful regional power." And why anyone would think that description implies something beneficial for America and America's allies is a mystery.
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When the current round of negotiations began, the goal was to persuade Iran's rulers to dismantle a nuclear weapons program they claimed they didn't have, didn't need and didn't want. Little by little, Iran's skilled negotiators turned the talks upside down: The agreement currently under discussion would legitimize their nuclear weapons program - without their even having to acknowledge its existence.
When the current round of negotiations began, the goal was to persuade Iran's rulers to dismantle a nuclear weapons program they claimed they didn't have, didn't need and didn't want. Little by little, Iran's skilled negotiators turned the talks upside down: The agreement currently under discussion would legitimize their nuclear weapons program - without their even having to acknowledge its existence.
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As now envisaged, key nuclear restrictions will disappear after 10 years and most restrictions will disappear after 15 years. In the meantime, the Iranian regime will develop an industrial-size, advanced-centrifuge-powered nuclear program with unlimited enrichment capacity, virtually undetectable breakout and much easier clandestine sneakout.
As now envisaged, key nuclear restrictions will disappear after 10 years and most restrictions will disappear after 15 years. In the meantime, the Iranian regime will develop an industrial-size, advanced-centrifuge-powered nuclear program with unlimited enrichment capacity, virtually undetectable breakout and much easier clandestine sneakout.
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In other words, if Iran's rulers are patient and abide by the terms of the agreement, they will be welcomed into the nuclear club in little more than a decade. If they are impatient and violate the terms of the agreement - as they have consistently violated past obligations - they could have nukes much sooner.
In other words, if Iran's rulers are patient and abide by the terms of the agreement, they will be welcomed into the nuclear club in little more than a decade. If they are impatient and violate the terms of the agreement - as they have consistently violated past obligations - they could have nukes much sooner.
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Meanwhile, Iran's development of intercontinental ballistic missiles - a program whose only purpose is to provide a means to deliver thermonuclear warheads to targets overseas - will continue unimpeded. Early on, Iranian envoys told American negotiators that their ICBMs were not negotiable. In this and many other instances, the American negotiators acquiesced.
Meanwhile, Iran's development of intercontinental ballistic missiles - a program whose only purpose is to provide a means to deliver thermonuclear warheads to targets overseas - will continue unimpeded. Early on, Iranian envoys told American negotiators that their ICBMs were not negotiable. In this and many other instances, the American negotiators acquiesced.
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Why is Mr. nObama so willing - if not eager - to embrace diplomatic defeat? He may sincerely believe that Iran's rulers will, over the years ahead, prioritize improving the lives of average Iranians over building a vast new empire - something akin to a caliphate. But no evidence supports that belief. No historical experience suggests that a regime that has survived for more than three decades thanks to its ruthlessness and brutality is likely to undergo such a transformation within that time frame.
Why is Mr. nObama so willing - if not eager - to embrace diplomatic defeat? He may sincerely believe that Iran's rulers will, over the years ahead, prioritize improving the lives of average Iranians over building a vast new empire - something akin to a caliphate. But no evidence supports that belief. No historical experience suggests that a regime that has survived for more than three decades thanks to its ruthlessness and brutality is likely to undergo such a transformation within that time frame.
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What can be done? To start, members of Congress who comprehend what's happening need to go on record registering their disapproval of Mr. nObama's very bad deal. They should do what they can to resist the lifting of sanctions. This will not be easy for Democrats: The White House - and various groups on the far left - will exert intense political pressure on them. They would be well-advised to cast their gaze on the future: Congressmen have legacies, too.
What can be done? To start, members of Congress who comprehend what's happening need to go on record registering their disapproval of Mr. nObama's very bad deal. They should do what they can to resist the lifting of sanctions. This will not be easy for Democrats: The White House - and various groups on the far left - will exert intense political pressure on them. They would be well-advised to cast their gaze on the future: Congressmen have legacies, too.
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Second, each and every presidential candidate - Hilly Rodham Clinton emphatically included - should affirm that, during the first year of the next administration, Iran's rulers will be required to verifiably demonstrate that they have halted their nuclear weapons programs. The next president must have reason to be confident that there are no undeclared nuclear weapons sites or activities.
Second, each and every presidential candidate - Hilly Rodham Clinton emphatically included - should affirm that, during the first year of the next administration, Iran's rulers will be required to verifiably demonstrate that they have halted their nuclear weapons programs. The next president must have reason to be confident that there are no undeclared nuclear weapons sites or activities.
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If that doesn't happen, if the Iranians cheat or if international inspectors are not getting the access they require, the new administration, unlike the current administration, must not look the other way or act as Iran's lawyers. Instead, steps must be taken to re-impose crippling sanctions, prevent nuclear restrictions from sunsetting as this deal contemplates, and put other options back on the table - in a manner that Iran's rulers will regard as credible.
If that doesn't happen, if the Iranians cheat or if international inspectors are not getting the access they require, the new administration, unlike the current administration, must not look the other way or act as Iran's lawyers. Instead, steps must be taken to re-impose crippling sanctions, prevent nuclear restrictions from sunsetting as this deal contemplates, and put other options back on the table - in a manner that Iran's rulers will regard as credible.
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Saying this sooner rather than later is vital: It can act as a disincentive to European and American businessmen who may otherwise be inclined to rush to Iran and plunk down big investments, after which they will become the regime's de facto lobbyists.
Saying this sooner rather than later is vital: It can act as a disincentive to European and American businessmen who may otherwise be inclined to rush to Iran and plunk down big investments, after which they will become the regime's de facto lobbyists.
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Mr. nObama is keenly interested in his place in history. He apparently believes that concluding an agreement with Iran will be the equivalent of President Nixon's rapprochement with China. It's worth recalling that, in 1972, President Nixon actually went to China where he and Chairman Mao Zedong shook hands and talked.
Mr. nObama is keenly interested in his place in history. He apparently believes that concluding an agreement with Iran will be the equivalent of President Nixon's rapprochement with China. It's worth recalling that, in 1972, President Nixon actually went to China where he and Chairman Mao Zedong shook hands and talked.
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A not-so-lunatic prediction: Ayatollah Khamenei will never deign to meet with Mr. nObama, shake his hand, clink glasses of pomegranate juice and chat.
A not-so-lunatic prediction: Ayatollah Khamenei will never deign to meet with Mr. nObama, shake his hand, clink glasses of pomegranate juice and chat.
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Instead, the Supreme Leader will continue to demonstrate his abiding abhorrence for "the Great Satan" and what he regards as its pathetic attempts to appease him. He believes humiliating America diplomatically is just the beginning. He foresees a future of weakness and eventual defeat for the United States. By contrast, he foresees a future of growing power and restored glory for the Islamic Republic. If you think those are lunatic predictions, you're badly mistaken once again.
Instead, the Supreme Leader will continue to demonstrate his abiding abhorrence for "the Great Satan" and what he regards as its pathetic attempts to appease him. He believes humiliating America diplomatically is just the beginning. He foresees a future of weakness and eventual defeat for the United States. By contrast, he foresees a future of growing power and restored glory for the Islamic Republic. If you think those are lunatic predictions, you're badly mistaken once again.
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