Is it only up to Biden, Europeans, Russia, China, and Iran for a policy regarding Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions?
Here we go again with Iran Outreach 2.0:
The Biden administration says it's ready to join talks with Iran and world powers to discuss a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, in a sharp repudiation of former President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” that sought to isolate the Islamic Republic.
The administration also took two steps at the United Nations aimed at restoring policy to what it was before Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018. The combined actions were immediately criticized by Iran hawks and drew concern from Israel, which said it was committed to keeping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Reviving the corpses of the deal and hope that Iran's mullahs are reasonable is insane:
The horrible deal actually rested on the flimsy objective that the deal would turn mullah-run Iran into a successful and responsible regional power that would not violate international norms and that by implication would not want nukes. Yes, the deal's flaw of opening the path to nukes would not be taken by Iran because of Obama's goodness lessons.
The Iranians demonstrated quickly that they had no intention of being responsible as part of being a successful regional power.
Indeed, Israel demonstrated that Iran wants nukes and the deal is not an obstacle to that objective. So that expiration is important.
As I argued well before the deal was signed, the basic premise of the deal was always clear to me: Iran's mullah rulers would pretend not to want nuclear weapons; and America would pretend to believe them.
I just don't understand why Democrats love Iran's mullahs so much.
I will not be surprised if Israel and its Arab allies mount a "maximum monkey wrench" strike campaign on Iran's nuclear infrastructure to preempt Nuclear Surrender 2.0. And maybe against Iran's oil export facilities, too. The Saudis have reason to wage that kind of war that Iran set the precedent for, right?
Have a super sparkly day.
UPDATE: A reminder that Obama really thought the horse would sing under his deal.
