Obama To Reopen Diplomatic Relations With Iran

by JASmius



Including the re-establishment and exchange of embassies, just like he's doing for Cuba.  Because what could possibly go wrong with reopening the U.S. embassy in Tehran?



Well, besides that?:

If the U.S. and Iran can agree on the terms of a nuclear deal, the American embassy — where fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days between 1979 and 1981 — may one day reopen in Tehran, former Iranian President Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told the [London] Guardian during a rare interview.

Note how he makes it sound like the mullahs would be doing us a favor, like it would be some kind of reward.  And given who's in the White House, that's exactly how O would see it.

A U.S. embassy in Iran is "not impossible," he said, "but that depends on the behavior of both sides." [emphasis added]

In case you thought that Rafsanjani was being generously evenhanded, there was this comment that provides more than enough clarification:

Rafsanjani told the Guardian that the decades of tensions between Iran and the U.S. is the result of "U.S. hostility" toward Tehran. The onus, he said, is on America to change the tone. [emphases added]

Oh, yes, because The One just isn't doing enough to control the murderous mobs filling American streets shouting, "Death to Iran!  Death to Islam!", to say nothing of lessening in the slightest his Hydra-like terrorist networks through which he wages unremitting war against the Islamic Empire.

Did you know that Red Barry's real name is "the Black Skull"?

And Rafsanjani is and has always been considered a "pragmatic moderate" within the mullahgarchy.  That is, in the microcosm, a gaping illustration of how, in a sane administration, there'd be absolutely no common ground upon which to every embark upon any negotiations with Tehran on anything in the first place.

But we didn't (twice) elect a sane administration, we elected an Islamophilic one, led by a man who is beyond desperate to get his Neville Chamberlain Moment.  Proving that there is no ceiling to the number and magnitude of concessions he's willing to and capable of making, King Hussein has now dispensed with the always-fictional "deadline redlines":

[W]ith negotiations making little headway, the White House on Tuesday laid the groundwork for a third outcome: continuing talks while keeping in place a November 2013 interim agreement that provided Iran with limited sanctions relief in exchange for rolling back parts of its nuclear program.

Such an outcome would allow Mr. Obama to avoid alternatives to diplomacy to confront Iran’s nuclear program, such as military force.

<snicker>

It gives the president political cover because the idea has support from some influential Republicans — including Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — and Israel…

Corker does because he forfeited the Senate's Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 ratification power two months ago.  The Israelis do because it buys them time for their own unilateral military response.

Iranian negotiators have increased their demands in recent days that a United Nations embargo on Tehran’s ballistic-missile program and arms trade be removed as part of a broader nuclear accord, said U.S. and European officials involved in the talks. A senior U.S. diplomat in Vienna said the Obama administration was committed to keeping them in place, at least in some form. “There will be an ongoing restriction on arms just like there will be ongoing restrictions regarding missiles,” said the diplomat…

Translation: Obama will fold on these demands as well.

U.S. officials have declined to outline what steps the administration would take if negotiations broke down.

Simple: They won't.  O cannot allow the mullahs to walk away from the table, which means Tehran will never cease escalating their demands, which means O will keep making concessions, even upping the concession ante, anything he has to do to get that piece of paper to wave around like an idiot descending the steps of Air Force One.

And then the Iranian nuclear attack will come.



It's become such a foregone conclusion that one almost wishes that they'd get it over with before O leaves office (if he ever does) so as not to stick his GOP successor with the blame, like Bush43 was stuck with 9/11 after Bill Clinton did nothing to stop the rise of al Qaeda.

But I think we can count on the mullahs being savvy enough to do precisely that.

Assuming Obama ever leaves office.  Then you could almost call it a mercy slaughter.

Almost, that is.