The real reason for Blinken's alarming warning about Iran

Published date29 April 2022
This is clearly deeply alarming news. But why did Blinken choose to announce this to the world? After all, it invites the question, "So what are you going to do about it?"

Blinken told the hearing that renewing the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which lifted sanctions in return for limitations on its nuclear program, remained "the best way to address the nuclear challenge posed by Iran."

But negotiations stalled several weeks ago, as the result of widespread outrage over leaks revealing that the American negotiators had accepted Iran's demand that the United States lift the terrorist designation from the regime's terrorist army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

So it's possible that Blinken's stark warning was intended to frighten people so much that opposition to the U.S. concessions to Iran to seal the deal just melted away.

Although both American and Israeli sources have been briefing that a deal is now exceedingly unlikely, it would be unwise to conclude it won't happen. For the Biden administration's determination to seal it has been astounding.

Blinken and his foreign-policy team ignore the fact that it would funnel billions of dollars into a terrorist regime that has launched countless attacks against American and Western interests, and regularly declares its intention to wipe Israel off the map.

They seem oblivious to the fact that the intercontinental ballistic missiles they would be facilitating through this agreement would point not at Israel, but at America and Europe.

They brush aside the fact that Iran recently plotted to murder the former National Security Advisor John Bolton and the former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. At the Senate committee hearing, Blinken merely acknowledged "an ongoing threat against American officials both present and past" while reiterating his commitment to sign an agreement with its perpetrators.

Blinken and his team ignore the way the regime lies through its teeth. Its repeated claim that it had no intention of using its nuclear program to build nuclear weapons was recently demolished by a former Iranian politician, Ali Motahhari.

"When we began our nuclear activity our goal was indeed to build a bomb," Motahhari told an Iranian radio outlet. The idea of building a bomb as a form of regional "intimidation," he said, was known to all officials in Tehran.

So the question is why the Biden administration is so fixated upon doing this deal. And the answer to that also answers the question of why it chose to...

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