Stretching appeasement to the breaking point, Washington is working overtime to convince global institutions, nations, banks and companies to dismiss their well-founded concerns and do business with the America-hating, terror-sponsoring, nuclear weapons-pursuing regime in Tehran. Washington’s efforts – which are coming despite no discernable change in Iranian behavior – extend a familiar script of recent …
“I can assure you,” Wendy Sherman, President Barack Obama’s lead negotiator on the Iran nuclear deal, said the other day, “that if Iran takes truly horrific terrorist action, or truly horrific human rights action, that people will respond.” Uh huh. Sherman’s comments, which she made during a May 25 event at the Center for Strategic …
Arthur Vandenberg, the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman who worked closely with President Truman to architect the free world in the late 1940s, died 65 years ago on Monday. His legacy offers two important lessons for us during our current time of turmoil at home and abroad. First, we have benefited greatly from the …
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We’re witnessing a strange spectacle in U.S. foreign policy, one with no obvious precedent: President Barack Obama is trying desperately to protect his cherished nuclear deal with Iran, making one concession after another in response to Iran’s post-deal demands to ensure that Tehran doesn’t walk away from it. Thus despite the terms to which U.S.-led …
Iranians are famously savvy negotiators, so recent revelations that, under the U.S.-led global nuclear deal, Iran has far more leeway than we had thought to hide its nuclear progress and test ballistic missiles shouldn’t surprise us. It should, however, alarm us. The revelations – reflecting the precise wording of resolutions by the International Atomic Energy …
Henry Kissinger famously remarked some time ago that Iran must decide whether it wants to be “a nation or a cause.” For decades, U.S. presidents of both parties have been trying to coax Tehran toward the former and away from the latter. Most recently, the U.S.-led global nuclear agreement with Iran – with its scores …
From today’s diary entry of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: How much longer will we have the dupe Barack Obama, the fool John Kerry and their minions? Not long enough, for sure! The Republicans running for U.S. president have all denounced our nuclear deal, which suggests that any of them would walk away from it …