Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Iran nuclear deal - what is the alternative?


Sam Kermanian, jewishjournal.com:

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Extract:
[T]he well intentioned Obama administration refused to listen to anyone, who among other things, warned that it should not start negotiating before Iran was ready to beg, it should not agree to Iranian uranium enrichment, and premature negotiations could result in the fragmentation of the international coalition (remember this one?).
The administration felt otherwise and what is done is done. I suspect by now pretty much everyone recognizes that this is not a good agreement, even if they don’t admit it outright. The best defense the administration itself is offering is that "this is the best deal we could get”, or, "If we don't take this deal the alternative is war". Letting alone the fact that both assertions are wrong, what the position implies is that even the administration knows that this is not a good agreement but it’s the best it could get. ...
So what is the alternative to this agreement? Simple:
Keep up as much pressure on the IRI and continue weakening it as much as possible, maintain a very strong military posture and make it clear that the military option is SERIOUSLY on the table (this more than anything else has the chance of preventing war), strongly confront the IRI on all of its international adventurisms including support of terrorism, arms shipments, interferences in its neighbors’ affairs, global influence buying (from South and Central America to South-East Asia) and so on, highlight the extremely corrupt nature and structure of the regime to the Iranian people through an unrelenting public diplomacy campaign aimed at shaking the foundations of the regime, and; promote democracy and human rights inside Iran.

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