Op-ed:

The Leopard That Is Iran 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio 

As we've all been (rightfully) focused on the nasty little virus from China as well as the homegrown miscreants and thugs trying to destroy our beloved America, there have been other important events going on in the world that have been getting little to no media attention or airtime. And one such important event is that Iran has not so silently been pushing forward with its efforts to build and then possibly use a nuclear weapon. However, it now looks like their nuclear ambitions just got setback months if not hopefully years as once again Iran is blaming Israel for yet another cyber-attack on its nuclear facilities. And if that's proven to be true all I can say is, “Bravo Israel.” 

And it all seems to have come to a head when just this past June 26th, a fire broke out at the main power plant in Shiraz followed by an explosive blast at the Parchin military complex...a blast supposedly felt in Tehran. But while Iranian officials first claimed that the blast was caused by an “accidental” gas leak in the “public area” of the Parchin complex, Israeli satellite images showed that the blast actually took place at a nearby not so secret liquid fuel production plant near but not on the Parchin complex itself...a plant used specifically to manufacture and then test solid propellant rockets and explosives for nuclear warheads. 

Then on June 30th an explosion shook the Sina Athar Clinic in the northern Tehran town of Tajrish, resulting in 19 deaths and injuring 14 others, and was followed two days later by a blast and fire at the largely underground Natanz nuclear facility...the very facility which houses a major centrifuge needed for the making of nuclear weapons. And surprise, surprise, on July 3rd, the Shiraz power plant again was on fire, while on July 4th another power plant, this time in Ahwaz, saw yet another “accidental” explosion this time supposedly caused by a faulty transformer, as per Iranian officials. And not only did an explosion occur but said explosion set the entirety of the plant on fire. And to add insult to Iran's nuclear injury, on the same day as the Ahwaz explosion, a chlorine gas leak at the Karoun petrochemical plant sent 70 workers to the hospital. 

And of course as soon as they could Iran revoked their “accidental” excuses and blamed the “little Satan” Israel and Israel-backed hackers for their newest nuclear woes...blamed Israel for perpetrating a “kinetic cyber weapons attack” on Iran. But the question that remains is, is Israel truly responsible for all or any of these attacks? Right now as I write this article Israel has neither confirmed nor denied culpability for any of the said “attacks,” however, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz did issue this statement and said on 'Israel Radio' that, “Not every incident that transpires in Iran necessarily has something to do with us.”  

Maybe not “necessarily,” but nevertheless I will not lose any sleep over it if it is indeed true. 

And while Benny Gantz's statement itself rings true, it's also true that the defense minister's words are both cleverly veiled and calculatingly ambiguous, while Haim Tomer...the former director of Tevel, the Mossad’s foreign intelligence cooperation unit...did state that while he was not aware of Israel being responsible for the explosion at Natanz, "substantial damage" caused in the incident showed that "there's an operational capability here." Obviously a very dangerous “operational capability,” and the civilized world should actually be glad the Natanz nuclear enrichment site went boom, especially since President Trump removed our country from Obama's very bad and oh so treasonous Iranian nuclear deal, leaving Iran's nuclear ambitions to basically run unchecked...or so Iran believes. 

So what exactly was Iran's final, to date, official response to the “attacks” now being blamed on Israel? As per Iran's Civil Defense Chief Gholamreza Jalali, who said on Iranian state television that, "Responding to cyber-attacks is part of the country's defense might. If it is proven that our country has been targeted by a cyber-attack, we will respond," proves to be just more inflammatory rhetoric and as expected retaliatory words...“face saving” words and nothing more...for Iran is no match for Israel cyber nor technology wise, and if they don't know it by now, they very well should. 

  

And so Iranian officials continue to talk out of both sides of their islamic mouths, with one side spewing that they already know the cause of the explosion at Natanz but cannot divulge that information at this time due to “security reasons”...while the other side of their islamist mouths seek to downplay the very happenings at Natanz as but just an “incident,” thus wanting the world to believe that no real “significant damage” was done to the facility or that any radiation had escaped.  

  

And all this is really quite astounding what with Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for 'The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran' along with Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi having rushed to the Natanz site after the explosion and fire, and with Kamalvandi having issued a statement that the explosion had indeed caused major damage to the facility...damage which could now slow down the production of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium...while also releasing a photo showing part of the charred remains of a centrifuge assembly workshop at the Natanz facility.  

  

Now here it's important to note that not only are Iranian officials putting focus on Natanz, but so too are aforementioned Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and former Tevel director Haim Tomeri. And this leads me to believe that the Natanz facility was the major target that needed to be taken out for Natanz was not only a fuel enrichment site, but a site replete with at least 60 advanced centrifuges of its own used for enriching uranium, and uranium is the very “must have” item in one's possession when building a nuclear weapon. But why has Iran now accelerated its nuclear program...simply because its leaders are worried that a continuation of the still-in-place arms embargo coupled with crippling U.S. economic sanctions would make it even more difficult to obtain let alone pay for both the systems and materials needed to not only declare itself a nuclear power, but to be able to eventually wipe Israel off the map. 

  

So even though Israel is still denying any "physical" connection to the recent explosion at Natanz, which technically might not be a lie, for history itself shows that Israeli operatives need not be on the ground to do what needs to be done...as in go in, get the job done, and get out before it's too late. And for proof of that one just needs to remember back to 2010 when Iran's nuclear program was “disrupted” via the Stuxnet cyber-attack...as in the malicious computer worm which specifically and successfully targeted Iran's supervisory control and data acquisition systems in regards to their nuclear centrifuges, setting Iran's nuclear program back years. And while Israel never actually admitted to being the culprit behind said attack, both Israel and the U.S. were and still are being blamed for it.  

   

Simply, with the Stuxnet cyber-attack having succeeded as it did...in fact it caused damage to around 1,000 of Iran's centrifuges...and with Iran still not changing its ways nor its nuclear ambitions, surely they had to know that another cyber-attack...or two or three or more...was a strong possibility. And Iran also had to know that their tried for cyber-attack last April on Israeli civilians and on its water infrastructure would not go unpunished.  

   

As per London's Financial Times, Iran tried but due to Israeli top-notch cyber-defences failed in their attempt to not only inject dangerously high levels of chlorine and other nasty chemicals into the drinking water being pumped into residential areas of Israel, but could have also seriously interrupting the flow of water throughout the Jewish state. Again, thankfully Iran's attempt did fail as there was also a chance, albeit a small one, that said cyber-attack could have not only triggered a “fail-safe” that would have completely shut down Israel's water pumps but also sections of Israel's main water infrastructure itself, leaving most Israelis without any water during what was then a deadly heatwave. 

  

So Iran had to know that some sort of (rightful) Israeli retaliatory “kinetic cyber-attack” would be forthcoming, but they would simply have no way of knowing exactly when or how such an attack would be carried out. First, one does need to know that a “kinetic cyber-attack”...such as Stuxnet...can cause direct or indirect physical damage, injury or even death though the exploitation of...as in tampering with...vulnerable information systems and processes, as is just what happened back in 2010. For example, a computer program can remotely monitor, control, and shut down security cameras at a targeted site so that security personnel would not be aware of someone sneaking into the site and doing or planting something...as in explosives.  

   

But in the case of Iran more power to whomever...whether it be Israel as most suspect, the U.S., Iranian dissident groups or a combination of all three...is behind these attacks for we all know that Iran wants nuclear capabilities not for peaceful purposes but to first wipe Israel off the map and then come for us and the rest of the civilized world next. After all, we all know that a leopard can never change its spots and neither apparently can this rogue islamic nation.

Copyright @ 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed: 
“A Deal Defective at its Core” 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

"I am announcing today the United State will withdraw from the Iran Nuclear deal...This is a horrible, one sided deal that should have never been reached..It didn't bring calm, it didn't bring peace and it never will."
- President Donald J. Trump, Tuesday, May 8, 2018...the day Obama's very bad nuclear deal died

Thank you Mr. President, your words spoke truth about a poorly-conceived and ever so vile a deal crafted by traitors who knowingly and willingly emboldened the enemy while making the rest of the world less safe. And with Iran now proven to have lied their way into the deal in the first place, that in and of itself negates the deal in the second place.

And while our fellow members of the P5+1 have been steadily working to try and convince President Trump to remain in what they know in their hearts is actually blackmail paid to save their own countries from a possible Iranian attack and more economic woes, Trump did what he knew was in America's best interests...something quite foreign to the previous administration.

And with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent presentation...Atomic Archive: Iran's Secret Nuclear Files...proving that, "The nuclear deal is based on lies, based on Iranian deception," he exposed for all the world to see the truth about Iran's nuclear ambitions. “At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction, that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful, nuclear energy program...Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie,” said President Trump after seeing Netanyahu's presentation.

And the ambitions Netanyahu spoke of and Trump alluded to consists of Iran not just becoming the sole nuclear power in the entirety of the Middle East...a Middle East that would see the reality of the Levant at the expense and elimination of both Israel and the U.S...but a Middle East that would have Iran anointing their partner in crime, one Barack HUSSEIN Obama, as their forever islamist deal making puppet-on-a-string.

And yes, the Iranian nuclear deal does indeed constitute a crime for when an American president knowingly and willingly works to put a deal in place that jeopardizes the security and safety of this nation and of 'We the People' he took an oath to protect...when an American president knowingly and willingly gives “aide and comfort” to America's enemy... when an American president relishes in stabbing one of its staunchest allies in the back... that American president is guilty of treason and no matter the liberal outcry to the contrary, that president, I believe, should hang by the neck until dead.

I cannot say it any plainer or more truthful than that.

And another that needs a date with a rope is former Secretary of State John 'Swiftboat' Kerry. John Kerry, the very man whose staff admitted he willingly violated the Logan Act and who himself still claims that Obama's and his Iranian so-called “diplomatic achievement” is "the single toughest and most transparent nuclear agreement in the world," saw President Trump rightly saying that Kerry “can’t get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it” with Iran.

“Stay away from negotiations John, you are hurting your country!” Trump added, but it fell on deaf ears for John Kerry not only took it upon himself to continue to engage in “unusual shadow diplomacy” in order to “apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside,” but he did so by holding “below the radar” meetings with Iranian and European leaders regarding the very deal he knew was treason from day one. And Kerry relished in meeting with said enemy while telling all who would listen that if Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal that he alone would be guilty of putting both the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that ended the U.S.-Soviet arms race at risk...something most decidedly not true.

Traitor...thy name is John Kerry...for the Logan Act specifically bars private diplomacy against U.S. interests and with Kerry having no official clearance or permission to work on anything on President Trump's behalf, and with his words basically threatening the president to stay in the deal or else...words to the affect that, "all Americans should care enormously about not igniting new conflict, not creating a more threatening situation that we have today"...these words actually translate into Kerry and his ilk putting the enemy's wishes above U.S. national security. Treason for sure...and just like with Obama, I believe, John Kerry too should hang from the neck until dead.

Again, I cannot say it any plainer or more truthful than that.

"America will not be held hostage by nuclear blackmail," Trump said. "The United States no longer makes empty threats." No we will not...no we do not...and now American traitors Barack HUSSEIN Obama and John Kerry...and the islamic world...knows that as well.

And so with Trump's signing the executive order that puts “powerful economic sanctions” back on Iran, it was like a breath of fresh air hearing our president call out the Iranian regime for its continued sponsorship and funding of terrorism that touches almost every nation of the world along with their purposeful destabilization of the region...and dare we forget President Trump's reminding us of Iran's daily chants “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

Having had the courage to call out the Iranian gang of murdering thugs like no president has ever done before, President Trump and 'We the People' are now left to face either the world's applause or it's outrage.

And applause came almost immediately from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...the very man who spoke just a few years ago before a Joint Session of Congress to warn us and the world of the dangers of making this or any deal with Iran. And now in a Statement on the U.S. Leaving the Iranian Nuclear Deal, Netanyahu hailed President Trump's "brave decision" to withdraw from just such a deal, while also vowing that Israel would respond to any and all subsequent aggression against them that might come from Iran.

Saying that, "Iran has declared its goal is to use Syria as a forward base to attack us," Netanyahu's words came to pass when just two days after President Trump's announcement Iran fired rockets at Israeli soldiers in the Golan Heights from their military bases in Syria. And Israel rightfully responded in kind as they carried out its own strikes... strikes that successfully hit dozens of Iranian military sites across southern and central Syria. Focusing solely on sites related to logistics, intelligence, and ammunition storage... not on civilian populated areas...this to date was Israel's largest operation against Iranian positions in Syria leading Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus to say, “It will take substantial time for the Iranians to replenish these systems.”

And while said applause came fast from Israel and also from the Iranian people themselves...a people who now more than ever before see hope for a real future thanks to President Trump's exiting a deal that saw Obama's funding of the mullahs finally being cut off...outrage came just as fast from John Kerry himself who rushed in to “save face” if for nothing less than the fact that as the deal's chief negotiator “saving face” was all but a must.

But did Kerry accomplish his “saving face” mission... I think not...especially not when he spews the words, "Today's announcement weakens our security, breaks America's word, isolates us from our European allies, puts Israel at greater risk, empowers Iran's hardliners, and reduces our global leverage to address Tehran's misbehavior, while damaging the ability of future administrations to make international agreements."

Pretty sounding words to some...nothing but lies to most...for when a deal is both brokered and entered upon based upon a lie...when a deal is negotiated by one who sides with the enemy...no pretty words now spoken can mask that person's true intent...an intent decidedly anti-American and anti-Israel too.

So what did the other P5+1 members have to say, after all they did try to get President Trump to stay in a deal they knew was and still is a very bad deal indeed. And yet when Trump pulled us out...which they had know he would do...British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a joint statement that of course denounced Trump’s decision while at the same time basically begging Iran to “continue to meet its own obligations under the deal” for their selfish economical reasons alone.

“Our governments remain committed to ensuring the agreement is upheld, and will work with all the remaining parties to the deal to ensure this remains the case including through ensuring the continuing economic benefits to the Iranian people that are linked to the agreement,” the three islamic condoning musketeers sadly said.

And what of P5+1 members Russia and China, who are saying that they will stay in the deal, for the time being anyway, but I seriously doubt they will stay in for long for the benefits to them economically are not as critical as they are to the Europeans. And besides, Russia and China have no real fear of Iran.

So what was the reaction of the Iranian government itself...”If the Europeans are willing to give us sufficient guarantees, it makes sense for us to stay in the deal,” Ali Motahary, the deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament said in remarks carried by the Iranian Students’ News Agency. But those words really are just for show for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, within hours of Trump's announcement, stated that while the Iranian government currently remains committed to the nuclear deal no matter our withdrawal, he quickly added that Iran is ready to resume uranium enrichment should the accord no longer offer benefits for Iran.

Benefits as in Iran's continuing to weaponize as Europe continues to bury its collective head in the sand.

But I saved the best for last as in what was Barack HUSSEIN Obama's response to seeing his “legacy” go up in flames?

Releasing his as expected condemnation of President Trump's actions...Obama spewed his long winded rhetoric on facebook of all places...Obama's Response to President Trump Removing the U.S. from the Iranian Nuclear Deal...rhetoric that would be considered spam and a violation of fb's made-up as they go 'community standards' if said by anyone of the conservative persuasion.

Whining that, “today’s announcement is so misguided. Walking away from the JCPOA turns our back on America’s closest allies, and an agreement that our country’s leading diplomats, scientists, and intelligence professionals negotiated,” and that “the decision to put the JCPOA at risk without any Iranian violation of the deal is a serious mistake," what Obama fails to see is that the only thing misguided was his deal itself...a one-sided deal negotiated by men who support the Iranian regime as well as being islamic blood brethren. And he also looks away from the fact that Iran violated said deal every time it tested a ballistic missile and every time it exceeded JCPOA allotted limits in their production of 'heavy water.'

Simply, Obama refuses to acknowledge that by Trump's walking away from what he called “the worst deal ever”... the world was actually saved from both a nuclear armed Iran and a possible nuclear war being started at a time of Iran's choosing.

But exactly how was the world saved...Iran has now been put on notice as to the consequences they face if they dare try either restarting uranium enrichment or nuclear weaponization. And as for their full-on attacking Israel proper...who they blame for all the world's woes...“It would be a grave miscalculation of historic magnitude by the ayatollahs if they choose to attack Israel,” President Trump said making it clear that those consequences would extend all the way to Tehran itself as the U.S. and Israel now once again have each others backs.

And with the words, “In a dangerous world, America must be able to rely in part on strong, principled diplomacy to secure our country. We have been safer in the years since we achieved the JCPOA, thanks in part to the work of our diplomats, many members of Congress, and our allies,” Obama finished spewing his rhetoric hoping most would buy into his words. But if truth be told except for the as expected Obama and party loyalists, those swimming in the D.C. swamp, his muslim brethren, and assorted snowflake sorts most responses have been that similar to this one by Steve C. “Obama please just go away!! You were the absolute worst POTUS EVER !! It was obvious you were trying to help your terrorist friends! That Iran deal was the dumbest deal in history and it only benefited Iran!! Once again just go away !! So glad you are history and that President Trump is erasing your legacy!!”

Guess Obama and his sidekick in treason John Kerry will soon each need a therapy puppy, a safe space, a coloring book and crayons as it must be hard to see yourselves and the deal you together dredged up from the bowels of hell exposed as the lie you knew it to be from the start. And once again, thank you President Trump for pulling us out of a deal you knew was just that too.

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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Op-ed:
Trump: The End of the Deal
By: Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“I am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification...We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror, and the very real threat of Iran's nuclear breakthrough.” - President Donald Trump

Last Friday, after listing all of Iran's past and present nasty deeds and nuclear deal violations...our president under the guise of the 'Congressional Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act' rightfully decided not to 'recertify' Obama's 'very bad' nuclear deal...a deal subject to recertification every 90 days.

A campaign promise kept and thank you Mr. President for doing so.

See President Trump's Iranian speech in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8YXOdXqpVI

And while what he did was truly a very good thing, the question for some remains did President Trump go far enough in distancing the U.S. from what he himself calls "one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into." And did he send that much needed and all-powerful message to both Iran and the world that America is back on top...that it is America who will now be calling the shots when it comes to those behaving badly. The answer to both questions cannot be answered with a simple yes or no, but must for the time being be answered with a maybe and we will tell you why.

So while we understand the legalities as to why President Trump did not withdraw us now and why he sent the deal back to Congress to 'fix' if you will...basically putting it on Congress' shoulders to decide whether to reimpose sanctions...which could actually sink the deal...or use the threat of sanctions to force Iran and the P5+1 back to the negotiating table to make changes to the deal...the problem is that with Congress having 60 days in which to do so means that Iran also has 60 more days in which they can continue to behave badly even though the timetable for them to do so was set in place with the election of Donald Trump.

"I am directing my administration to work closely with Congress and our allies to address the deal's many serious flaws so the regime can never threaten the world with nuclear weapons," said President Trump.

Serious flaws indeed including flaws in the actual construction of the deal itself for the fact is that Obama preempted congressional review of this deal by going after and getting the then 41 votes needed to approve the U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the JCPOA before Congress had even started its own required review. And lets not forget that under the Constitution treaties require support of two-thirds of the Senate and with the Iranian deal being a treaty in every respect...as in its being a legally binding long-term agreement between sovereign nations which is the definition of a treaty...Obama did indeed break the law by not securing the 67 votes needed and got away with it.

And with President Trump added to his words spoken that if Congress and our allies cannot reach a solution to Iran's current violations and are unable to come up with both language and terms that, in his opinion, will improve the agreement what with "the deal under continuous review," that as president he can unilaterally withdraw us from "the deal at any time." 

And those words were met with challenges from Democrats...including Democrats like Rep. Eliot Engel (N.Y) who split with Obama and opposed the nuclear deal. Now urging Trump to uphold the international accord, he and others claim that "robust enforcement" is the best way to counter Tehran's malign behavior in the Middle East, and that "unwinding the agreement" would send a dangerous message to both allies and adversaries alike.

But even if opposing views were pushed aside and a uniting of sorts of those on both sides of the political aisle took place, what could Congress really do but decide whether to reimpose the economic sanctions on Iran that under Obama's deal were lifted...as in remember the 1.7 billion dollars Obama happily gave to Iran even before all the signatures on the deal paper had dried.

And President Trump knows well that for the most part sanctions themselves do not work and that what really should be addressed by Congress is how to stop Iran from enriching any uranium at all; how to stop Iran from operating its plutonium-producing heavy water reactor; how to toughen up the deal's current weak inspection provisions; or else give him full congressional support to withdraw us from a deal that should never have been entered into in the first place.

And why do we say this besides the obvious being that Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism...we say it because a previously signed treaty was twisted by Obama to suit his agenda and sadly forgotten by most...a treaty that should have prevented Obama from ever having proposed the Iranian nuclear deal in the first place.

On July 1, 1968, the 'Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty' (NPT) was ratified and signed by the United States, the Soviet Union, the Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, and 40 other countries including Iran (with 189 countries eventually became party to it). This treaty's main objectives and goals were then..and still remain now...to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. This treaty, if it had been adhered to, should have taken precedence over any and all other nuclear treaties including the The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

In August 2015, the P5+1 signed the JCPOA no matter that behind the scenes questions remained as to where the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty fell in regards to this new just agreed to nuclear treaty. Answered with veiled innuendos that while the NPT was the "central pillar" of any and all non-proliferation dealings and that it would allow its signer nations to better manage future proliferation threats, the wording and meaning in what the NPT stated and in what JCPOA stated were twisting by Obama to fit his agenda. 

And in Obama's pushing to the P5+1 the false narrative that the JCPOA reflected the reality that today's non-proliferation had already expanded well beyond that stated in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty does not mean that said Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action trumped then or negates now the treaty that Iran had previously both signed and ratified.

Siding with Iran's argument that as per Article IV* of said Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty they had the "unalienable right" to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes... purposes we and Obama knew were anything but peaceful...it becomes obvious that Obama never wanted us to know that nowhere in Article IV's wording does it directly reference either the actual right to or not to enrich uranium. 

However, this ambiguity in Article IV's wording allowed Obama to negate previous administration's words that, “it has always been the U.S. position that article IV of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty does not speak about the right of enrichment at all [and] doesn’t speak to enrichment, period”...thus allowing him to convince any dissenting voices in the P5+1, and even within our own Congress, that Iran did indeed have the "unalienable right" to enrich uranium and to do so at the time of their choosing.

And while our government has in the past recognized the "legitimacy of peaceful uranium enrichment" by other signers of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, such recognition in no way means uranium enrichment is a "unalienable right" as Iran claims. And why...because most of the treaty's signers know that uranium enrichment can be misused in a country's desire to build a bomb of their own, which in turn could set off a new and even more dangerous nuclear arms race what with Iran already in partnership with rogue nation North Korea. And know that terrorist groups are weIrantting their lips as they wait for Iran to become a recognized nuclear power...a nuclear power who would willingly sell a nuclear bomb to the highest anti-America, anti-Israel bidder.

And lets not forget that there is another provision within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that Obama and the P5+1 chose to ignore even as Iran strove to become a nuclear power. This is in regards to the actual monitoring and verification of Iran’s nuclear activities. Article III of said treaty states that “Each non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes to accept safeguards, as set forth in an agreement to be negotiated and concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency in accordance with the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Agency’s safeguards system…” and Iran signed and ratified this 'so-called' Safeguards Agreement in 1974.

But Iran fooled them all until the early 1990s when their under-the-radar nuclear activities were exposed. Only then were Additional Protocol (AP) regarding monitoring put into place while at the same time said protocol was not made a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obligation. This allowed Obama to use the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) reports from both June 2003 and September 2005...reports that did not find Iran in violation of the NPT but reports only recommending that Iran cooperate with the IAEA by providing more information regarding its suspected nuclear activities...reports used to help him push The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action through Congressional review.

And it was Obama's deliberate but now exposed hiding of these facts as to how he got this abomination of a deal in place that should allow President Trump to withdraw from the deal with the "radical regime" based upon the simple fact that "Iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal.” And as for Congress they would be wasting their time and energies in deciding if the reimposing of sanctions would help to rein Iran in for the deal as written is but a lie that a few tweaks here and there would do nothing to help resolve the fundamental flaw in the deal itself ...that flaw being that thanks to Obama, in the time since the deal was first signed, Iran has probably already secured a nuclear weapon or two courtesy of their buddies in North Korea...a weapon or two they have safely hidden away for use at the time of their choosing.

So with President Trump planning to take immediate action against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by authorizing the Treasury Department to impose targeted sanctions against “its officials, agents, and affiliates,” know that Europe's islamic-condoning leaders have said they will resist any attempts by Trump to reopen the nuclear deal. And with a stalemate of sorts now in place the time for Iran to really behave badly is probably edging closer than most people think what with the likes of Germany's Angela Merkle helping to run cover for Iran. 

According to German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, obviously via Angela Merkel, President Donald Trump’s decision not to recertify the nuclear deal with Iran, and his announcement that he wants to reimpose stiff sanctions on Iran, sends a "difficult and dangerous signal" which could lead to Iran building nuclear weapons and raise the danger of war close to Europe.

According to Hillary Clinton, the hard lines President Donald Trump has taken with both North Korea and now with Iran are damaging to America’s standing on the world stage, and could provoke a nuclear arms race in East Asia.

It sounds to us as though Angela Merkel has been busy writing talking points and Hillary is on her email list.

While both liberals and conservatives in our country have a vast array of opinions on how President Trump is responding to the duel threats from North Korea and Iran, we need to look at the responses from Germany and from Hillary Clinton separately before we look at the abject insanity of their overall strategy.

First, let’s have a look at Hillary’s vapid response to the hard lines President Trump is currently taking.

It was, after all, Hillary’s husband who made the deal with North Korea that ultimately led that rogue, hermit nation to emerge from the shadows replete with a growing arsenal of nuclear weapons with which to threaten not only their region, but the rest of the world. And it was Hillary’s handshake deal with the madman Kim Jong-un which allowed that nuclear rogue nation to now build ballistic missiles capable of reaching nearly any point in our country.

As for Iran, it was Hillary Clinton, as Obama’s Secretary of State, that led to the worst deal ever made, replete with a 'sunset clause' that gives Tehran the green light to do whatever they want in the realm of going nuclear with weapons and ballistic missiles without any restrictions whatsoever, by the year 2025.

How dare Hillary Clinton allege it is President Trump who has damaged America’s standing on the world stage. Through Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the deals with North Korea and Iran, Obama’s announcing to our enemies specific dates when we would leave various theaters of war, and Obama’s doctrine of creating vacuums of power in the Middle East to be filled by 7th century barbaric regimes and various islamic terrorist organizations, that did the damage to our standing on the world stage.

In fact, between Hillary and Obama, they all but removed us from that stage altogether.

Now, as for Angela Merkel’s Germany…

Perhaps neither Angela Merkel nor her sock-puppet of a Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, have noticed, but the deal to which they seem to want kept as is, in the most desperate way, actually paves the road to Iran becoming a rogue nation led by 7th century barbarians in possession of their very own stockpile of Iranian produced nuclear weapons.

Blaming President Trump for setting up that particular scenario is beyond ridiculous, it’s transparently insane. How so? Well, the Iranian nuclear deal itself, being toothless in every aspect and containing that 'sunset clause' by which even the toothless restrictions would be done away with after ten years, is what has directly led to Iran’s ramped up nuclear weapons program.

That deal, such as it is, is the world’s permission slip to Iran to build as many nuclear weapons as possible.

But that’s not the whole of it, and this is where we need to look at the combination of the Merkel/Hillary response to the announcement from President Trump that the Iranian nuclear deal would not be recertified, would be altered with sharp teeth or torn up altogether, as a singular response.

What Hillary Clinton is parroting from Angela Merkel is a notion, a strategy so absurd, so ultimately dangerous that it must be expose.

What these two old hens are saying is that it is far better to appease the world’s tyrants and barbarians than it is to hold them accountable, and to stop them dead in their combined nuclear ambition tracks. Yes, combined tracks because as we stated before and have been stating for years, Iran and North Korea...where nuclear arms are concerned...are inextricably linked together. Both of their individual programs are benefitting the other in both their marches towards the goal of nuclear attacks launched from their respective rogue nations becoming a reality.

That strategy is appeasement.

Just as sanctions do not work, never have and never will, in the long term appeasement has never nor will it ever work, because there simply is no way on earth to appease madmen or barbarians into a state of calm by which either will live peacefully with their neighbors within their regions or on this planet.

Let’s be clear about this...appeasement is not a foreign policy. What appeasement is, is a tacit, informal surrender to one’s enemies. Nothing less, and certainly nothing more.

Can anyone name even a single time that appeasement was offered by a burgeoning aggressor to a non-aggressor as a matter of foreign policy? Of course not, as the burgeoning aggressor never has nor ever will see a need to appease those they seek to destroy.

On the other hand, perhaps the most famous case of appeasement turned disaster was the abject failure of appeasement policy towards Germany in the late 1930’s in a mindless attempt to reason with a madman, Adolph Hitler, that turned what should have been Europe’s problem into the Second World War.

It has rightly been said that those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them, and in that light, looking at today’s situation with both North Korea and Iran, the two being inexorably linked, only in the realm of how it effects the here and now as per our own nation would exhibit, at best, two dimensional thinking. Allow us to expand that line of thought to three dimensions by providing three ways in which this all must be viewed if one truly wants to get to the truth.

First...world history is rife with many examples from the ancient Egyptians to the Roman Empire, Genghis Kahn to Napoleon to Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan to today’s North Korean/Iranian situations where the appeasers have been ground into powder and dust by the appeasees. Each group of appeasers has failed to learn from the many mistakes of those who previously attempted to appease those who were the aggressors, and time and time again throughout history those on the receiving end of various appeasement as foreign policy strategies overtook their appeasers in acts of conquest.

Second...the conquest of the appeasers throughout history nearly always begins with the overtaking of the culture of the appeasers because those who offer such appeasements seem to believe that the road to lasting peace should always include allowing the aggressors full access to live amongst them. Today, we can clearly see this in action as Merkel, and the whole of Europe, has appeased islam by allowing unfettered access, via a borderless region, to those intent on their destruction. That is also a policy of appeasement championed by Hillary Clinton via Barack HUSSEIN Obama in demanding that islam be imported into the United States sans any semblance of a serious vetting process.

And third...the Merkels and Hillary Clintons of today’s one world government agenda seem to believe that the whole of the world would be better served by allowing the North Korean and the Iranian rogue regimes to possess nuclear weapons through appeasement as a foreign policy strategy. By challenging President Donald Trump’s hard lines against both rogue regimes, they claim that the world will be more dangerous and less stable, if those two rogue regimes are prevented from attaining their nuclear dreams.

In case the world’s liberals haven’t noticed, the acquisition of nuclear arms by both North Korea and Iran has already started the nuclear arms race in both regions, In other words, the tacit surrenders offered by the ilk of Hillary Clinton, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and Angela Merkel to both Iran and North Korea has spurred those nation’s regional neighbors into seeking their own nuclear arms as a means of both self-defense, and self-preservation...a situation that can still be reversed if our nation, under President Donald Trump, puts an end to the appeasements.

By taking the hard lines against Iran and North Korea, by signaling to the world that an end to the appeasements is not only in order, but at hand, President Donald Trump is engaging in a foreign policy strategy that is diametrically opposed to and the polar opposite of the foreign policy of his predecessor, and that which would have been furthered had Hillary Clinton won the election last November. President Trump is putting America first rather than last and leading from the front rather than from behind, both of which is, to the chagrin of Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel, reestablishing America at the front and center of the world stage.

Would we have liked to have seen Obama’s 'very bad' deal with Iran torn to shreds last week by President Donald Trump? Of course, but the President, exhibiting his own three dimensional thinking, and having learned from his own short history in office, has given Congress 60 days to rewrite our end of that 'very bad' deal, and one can suppose Iran 60 days to ramp up their nuclear efforts, but it’s still a great deal better than giving Iran possibly a year or more which would be the result should liberals chase this all through the courts in any effort to block a presidential end-run around Congress.

The bottom line is this...the nuclear proliferation of both Iran and North Korea must be stopped, the cost of doing so will be high, but nowhere near as high as would be the cost should continued appeasement be the foreign policy strategy by which either we or the world proceed. Throughout history hard line strategies have ended the tyrannies of madmen and barbarians, and the hard lines currently being undertaken by President Donald Trump will prove to be the correct strategy.

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*Article IV: “nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty.” 

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