Justin Smith examines President Trump’s withdrawal from
Obama’s idiotic Iran Nuke Deal as a message to Iran, perhaps North Korea and
the appeasement minded EU nations that America will not be held hostage by
threats of war.
JRH 5/12/18
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America Will Not Be Held Hostage
Avoiding a Dark Future
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 5/10/2018 9:44 PM
On Tuesday May 8, 2018, President
Donald Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Weapons Deal,
a bad unilateral presidential agreement and a terrible milestone of American
history made by his predecessor, and it was great to see President Trump making
this strong and definitive decision, for a number of reasons that all bear on
our national security. He made the right and the only sound decision,
especially in light of recent
revelations, that the Iranians had never stopped pursuing their nuclear weapons,
as promised, and, in defiance of our European allies and escalating tensions
with Iran, he walked away from a promise made by Obama and not the American
people.
Last month during an address from the Israeli Ministry of
Defense in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
announced to the world, "Tonight I'm here to tell you one
thing. Iran lied -- big time."
Netanyahu continued and revealed Israeli Intelligence had
acquired 100,000 files and 55,000 Iranian documents, from the Shorabad District
of Iran, which exhibited Iran was still continuing with its nuclear weapons
program, referred to as Amad, despite the 2015 deal it made with Obama and the
international community. Both Ali Khamenei, Iran's
Supreme Leader, and President
Hassan Rouhani lied when they said Iran had no interest in nuclear
weapons.
The White
House stated on April 30th: "These facts are consistent with
what the United States has long known: Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear
weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world ... ".
From day one, I admonished Congress and the American people
not to place any trust in anything the Iranian Mullahs had to tell us or any
agreement entered with them. I noted that the International Atomic Energy
Commission didn't even know about Iran's pursuit of nukes for twenty years.
Even between 2000 and 2004, when many sources stated Iran was pursuing nukes, Iran denied
it, until it came out in 2004, whereupon they still denied it. And don't forget
too that former IAEA Director General Mohamed El Baradei, a Muslim Brotherhood
agent and sympathizer,
hid
Iran's nuclear progress right through 2007, with him and Iran
denying it all along.
Failing to account for Iran's corrupt nature was one of the
more stupid and serious flaws in Obama's deal, since history has shown
the Mullahs of Iran are bad faith actors, malevolent and evil, and they
cannot be trusted to negotiate anything honestly. And flawed deals like this
one have exacted a heavy price from the world, as witnessed in 1938 and Neville
Chamberlain's "peace for our time".
When the Grand Fool Barack Obama, his Court Jester
John Kerry and former Ambassador to the U.N Samantha Powers speak as
though Obama alleviated the possibility of Iran's nuclear program, they are
outright lying. The deal
explicitly allowed the Iranian nuclear program to move full steam ahead
unrestrained by any international consequences.
This terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, which I wrote about in
detail in 2015 in 'Obama's
Dismal Legacy' and 'Iran
and Nuclear Terrorism', gave Iran $150 billion that it has used
to continue its ongoing campaign of terror in Yemen and Syria, through Houthis
and Hezbollah proxies, and its funding of Hamas terrorists in Gaza, while its
Mullahs continue on with the development of long-range ballistic missiles; and,
just days ago, they burned a paper American flag, as they chanted "Death
to America." All of this has come by way of Barack Obama's failed Middle
East policies, which further enabled the hell now flourishing.
Since at least 2006, myself and many others have been
warning about Iran and Hezbollah's growing presence and influence in both the
Triangle Area of South America and the Northern Triangle of Central America. On
May 8th, my friend, Judith Bergman gave an important advance warning:
"According to Emmanuel Ottolenghi, speaking at
the April hearing on Iran's global terrorism networks: 'A survey of cases
prosecuted against Hezbollah operatives in the past two decades shows that the
terror group remains a threat to the security of the U.S. homeland and the integrity
of its financial system. Iran and Hezbollah sought to carry out high casualty
attacks against U.S. targets multiple times. Additionally, they built networks
they used to procure weapons, sell drugs, and conduct illicit financial
activities inside the United States.'"
Just imagine the horror they will unleash, if Iran achieves
a fully capable nuclear weapon. Does anyone believe that given the chance,
these terrorists won't smuggle nukes into America and detonate them?
Criticizing Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal as "weak"
and "insane", President
Trump stated in part: "The Iran deal is defective at its core
... America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not
allow American cities to be threatened with destruction, and we will not allow
a regime that chants ‘Death to America’ to gain access to the most deadly
weapons on Earth."
Shortly afterwards, National Security Advisor John Bolton stated
that all U.S. sanctions related to Iran's nuclear weapons program, that had
been lifted, were now back in effect. "We're out of the deal. Right now.
We're out of the deal" Bolton said.
It's a complex and dangerous game unfolding, and the longer
it continues, the more dangerous it gets for America. Despite progress with
North Korea and the release of three Americans, do not expect either
North Korea or Iran to really abandon their nuclear weapons program. They're
fully out in the open now with these programs, and they both are nearly
completely finished with the technological tweaking necessary to build a full
arsenal of nuclear weapons; and, they both worked together on their programs
out of a mutual hatred of the United States, aided and abetted at different
points by both China and Russia. And the day after President Trump's
announcement, Iranian missiles rained down on both Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Look for one of these rogue nations to deliver a nuke or two
to some rabid Islamic terrorist group, or even some crazed commie Antifa
bastard, in one or more U.S. cities over the next decade, so they can have
plausible deniability, when an American city goes poof in a blinding nuclear
flash and a 300 mile per hour radiation laden aftershock. This is the biggest
factor that should demand the United States and her leaders move forcefully to
remove both the North Korean and the Iranian regimes from power, even if it
means reducing their nations to glass to achieve this end.
President Trump's withdrawal from this bad deal is moving
America closer to recovering its moral character, by rebuking Obama’s bitter
fruit of appeasement and ensuring the United States will not allow Iran to
build an arsenal of nuclear weapons, under any circumstances. Considerably
less danger exists in a preemptive strike on Iran’s and even North Korea's
nuclear facilities, all their government buildings, and all their military
installations, if it proves necessary, rather than going forward with a bitter
fruit that only promises a dark future filled with exponentially larger
conflagrations, massive wars and chaos.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
All source links are by the
Editor except Justin’s link to Dr. Emmanuel Ottolenghi quote in the 40-page PDF
entitled, “State
Sponsors of Terrorism: An Examination of Iran’s Global Terrorism Network”
dated 4/17/18.
© Justin O. Smith
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