IRAN NUKE DEAL
The debate on the November vote
in Congress regarding the terrible P5+1 nuclear "Deal" is heating up.
Both sides - the shrinking "in favor" side and the growing domestic
and international "against" side are ratcheting up the rhetoric,
together with threats, accusations, war prophesies, name-calling and
mean personal attacks.
The way I see it - here's what's
shaping up:
1.
Congress
will probably vote "no" but without a veto-proof majority.
2.
President Obama will veto it.
3.
As far as the "deal" is concerned it wont mean a thing.
4.
There is a better than 50% chance that it will be rejected by
either the Iranian Majalis (parliament), the Grand Ayatollah or both.
Below are a few links to articles that look at the
"Deal" from various Israeli, American, Iranian
and international perspectives.
As you an clearly see, even if the P5+1 and Iran
actually ratify it and eventually sign it (neither has been done yet!),
there is no way it will:
- Prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
- Stop Iran's empirical hegemonic aspirations and activities.
- Stop Iran's support of worldwide terrorism
- Change Iran's obsession with the destruction of America and Israel (as seen in this week's rocket attacks on Israel from Syria)
The "Deal" just gets worse the more we learn about it
from day to day. As David Horovitz says in his well argued editorial
below: "Even the
Iranians plainly didn't think they'd get away with a deal this ridiculous. It's
akin to having Bernie Madoff scrutinize his own business practices, or Tour de
France cyclists conduct their own doping tests... except it has global
life-and-death implications".
Enriching Iran -
Gabriel Scheinmann
Congress
Should Step Up to Block the Iran Agreement - Joseph I. Lieberman (Washington
Post)
The Nuclear Deal: No Pause in Iran's
Vow to Destroy Israel - Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall
Israel - Iran
According to all indications,
including the five year plan
for the IDF issued by Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Gad Eisencot,
while Iran remains the main strategic threat, Israel has no current intention
to launch a direct air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities at this stage.
However since Israel is not part of the P5+1 "Deal", I have no doubt
(and it's clear from the plan), that Israel will continue and expand covert
operations that have successfully delayed and sabotaged
Iran's nuclear ambitions in the past. Top Iranian nuclear scientists and
engineers will either disappear, die
in "accidents" or defect while "mysterious" explosions
will take place at strategic locations...and who can forget "Stuxnet"?
But all this can change if Iran
decides to threaten Israeli citizens again, as it did last week, by launching
rockets from Syria or Lebanon. While Israel's precise and deadly retaliation
strikes were against Syrian regime positions and successfully targeted he
actual Islamic Jihad terrorists who launched the rockets, Israeli officials
made it crystal clear that the orders to fire the rockets were given by the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Al Kuds force, commanded by General Qassem
Suleimani.
Israel
holds Iran directly responsible for the attacks and promises retaliation if
they continue. With over 100,000
Iranian controlled short, medium and long-range missiles in Lebanon and
thousands more in Syria pointing at Israel, another barrage could lead to full
scale war...which Israel does not want but is fully
prepared for.
I will continue to deal with these developing
issues in upcoming Updates, as well as US-Israel relations in the wake of the
"Deal" (hint: still very good despite the ongoing Bibi-Obama
administration personal animosity).
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