The Mullahs Hit The Jackpot

by JASmius

Except, of course, that this was not a game of chance, because there was no chance that Barack Obama wasn't going to sell out our allies - most especially Israel - and his own country in hopes of getting his Neville Chamberlain moment:

Iran and six world powers reached a breakthrough deal early on Sunday to curb Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for limited sanctions relief, in what could be the first sign of an emerging rapprochement between the Islamic state and the West.

No, five world powers and the United States.  Iran's nuclear weapons drive isn't curbed at all, even if the mullahs complied with the loose-as-a-goose terms.  And the sanctions relief will be enormously difficult to reverse, even if sanctions were accomplishing anything, which they have and are not.

Aimed at ending a dangerous standoff, the agreement between Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia was nailed down after more than four days of tortuous negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva.

Oh, it ends the standoff, alright - by surrendering to the mullahs, guaranteeing an even more dangerous endgame capped by mushroom clouds over American and Israeli cities.

Halting Iran's most sensitive nuclear work, it was designed as a package of confidence-building steps to ease decades of tensions and confrontation and banish the specter of a Middle East war over Tehran's nuclear aspirations.

The interim agreement doesn't halt anything; the mullahs can continue to enrich uranium to their heart's content - something that was supposed to be prohibited by six separate UN Security Council Resolutions - and it entrusts all verification of their compliance with the loose-as-a-goose terms to....the mullahs.

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who has been coordinating talks with Iran on behalf of the major powers, said it created time and space for talks aimed at reaching a comprehensive solution to the dispute.

In other words, the final agreement will be even worse than the interim agreement.

"This is only a first step," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told a news conference. "We need to start moving in the direction of restoring confidence, a direction in which we have managed to move against in the past."

See?

In Washington, President Barack Obama said that if Iran did not meet its commitments during a six-month period, the United States would turn off sanctions relief and "ratchet up the pressure."

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government denounced the agreement as "a bad deal" that Israel did not regard itself as bound by.

Seeing as how Israel wasn't invited to be a party to these talks, despite the fact that the Jewish State is one of the mullahs' two avowed, publicly declared targets for nuclear annihilation, there's nothing that bound Israel to its abominable outcome, no matter what it might have been.

Diplomacy with Iran was stepped up after the landslide election of Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate, as Iranian president in June, replacing bellicose nationalist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Rouhani aims to mend fences with big powers and get sanctions lifted. He obtained crucial public backing from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, keeping powerful hardline critics at bay.

This is a level of bullbleep not seen since the détente-era "Kremlinology" of the Cold War, when Western diplodicks endlessly imagined they saw "moderates" in the Soviet leadership that they could "do business with".  Note the modifier emphasized in the above quote; Rouhani was selected and marketed as a "moderate," to bring about precisely this outcome.  Khamenei knew full well that O was eager, even desperate, for a "diplomatic breakthrough" by which he could cave and give the mullahs everything they wanted; so he gave The One the flimsiest pretext and Red Barry slurped it down like a plum tee time.

In reality, Rouhani is every bit the bloodthirsty jihadist that Ahmadinejad is; he's "moderate" only in the sense that every Muslim "statesman" is moderate - namely, presenting a "reasonable" face to the West, while being his real self at home.  Seriously, does anybody believe that Khamenei would ever appoint as his frontman anybody who would agree to halt the mullahgarchy's drive for nuclear weapons?

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran's enrichment program had been officially recognized.

Secretary of State John Kerry said the agreement would make it harder for Iran to make a dash to build a nuclear weapon and would make Israel and other U.S. allies safer.

Which diplodick would you believe?  I'd take Araqchi's word, myself, because he has no reason not to gloat, whereas Lurch has every incentive to cover the entire media back-forty in Obamanure.

Kerry also told a news conference that while Obama would not take off the table the possible use of force against Iran, he believed it was necessary first to exhaust diplomacy.

Of course he would.  This interim agreement as much as already does so.  Does anybody seriously believe that any American administration could agree to such a total sell-out and credibly maintain a military option, even if it had the means of backing it up, which the Obama Regime has done everything in its usurped power to divest itself of?

This interim agreement is complete bullbleep.  And remember, all the mullahs really need to destroy their two "Satans" is four decent-sized nuclear warheads - one each for Haifa, Tel Aviv, and the Negev, and one to detonate three hundred miles over Kansas in an EMP attack that would destroy the entire electronic infrastructure of the U.S., plunging us backwards technologically by a century and a half, and within a year killing upwards of 90% of the American population due to starvation, disease, societal collapse, and - well, who knows which of our other enemies wouldn't sweep in and help themselves to whatever was left?

But isn't that the Obama Doctrine - cutting American down to size?  This interim agreement takes a giant step "forward" toward that goal.