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Did Obama Just Set Off A Global Nuclear Arms Race By Signing The Iran Deal?
On one level, it’s easy to forgive those who fall victim to unintended consequences when their actions were clearly meant to promote the greater good.
On another level, leaders - whether operating in the public or private sector - are expected to demonstrate some degree of foresight when making important decisions so that the consequences of those decisions don’t end up being so detrimental as to negate entirely any perceived benefits.
A good example of this in the corporate world is Wal-Mart, where a presumably well-meaning attempt to raise the wages of the retailer’s lowest paid employees turned into a veritable disaster that led directly to a series of attempts to squeeze more “value” out of the supply chain and culminated in this week’s utter corporate carnage (see here).
In the world of geopolitics, the quintessential example may well be the Iran nuclear deal.
Just as “higher wages for everyone” sounds good on paper, “deterring nuclear proliferation” sounds great from a “save humanity” perspective.
However, the fact that Iran has a right to develop technology that will deter its enemies (some of whom are nuclear powers), and the fact that frankly, it makes little sense for the US to take on the role of global nuke police officer given that history shows America indeed cannot be trusted not to nuke people, means that any deal Washington strikes regarding nuclear proliferation is likely to engender a series of unintended consequences thanks to rampant counterparty mistrust.
Case in point: before the ink was even dry on the Iran deal, Tehran i) stepped up its on-the-ground involvement in Syria, ii) flouted international inspectors by taking its own samples at Parchin, and best of all iii) test fired a new type of advanced ballistic missile on the way to proclaiming that the country will not be asking "anyone’s permission to enhance defense power or missile capability and will firmly pursue defense plans, particularly in the field of missiles."

Clearly, Iran saw Washington’s stance in the negotiations as a sign of weakness and, realizing that because the deal is an important part of Obama’s legacy and therefore The White House cannot afford to scale it back, proceeded to defy the spirit (if not the letter) of the agreement at every turn.
Well don’t look now, but more unintended consequences of the “historic” nuclear arrangement are beginning to show up. It now appears as though one key element of the deal may be set to spark a Mid-East (and perhaps global) nuclear arms race. Here’s AP:
The landmark Iran accord to curb its nuclear weapons in exchange for economic sanctions relief allows Tehran to enrich uranium. In barely noticed testimony last month, Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the UAE's ambassador in Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, had informed him in a telephone call that the country no longer felt bound by its previous nuclear agreement with the United States.
"He told me, 'Your worst enemy has achieved this right to enrich. It's a right to enrich now that your friends are going to want, too, and we won't be the only country,'" Royce said in a phone interview with The Associated Press this week, elaborating on his testimony.
As an aside, don't forget that the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen sent 45 UAE soldiers home in bodybags last month.

Back to AP:
In a 2009 pact with the UAE, the United States agreed to share materials, technology and equipment for producing nuclear energy. In the accord — known as a 123 Agreement — the UAE made a bold pledge not to enrich uranium or reprocess spent fuel to extract plutonium, two pathways to an atomic weapon.
Asked to respond, the UAE Embassy in Washington sent a one-sentence email that said the "government has not formally changed its views or perspective on the 123 Agreement or commitments." The UAE has said in the past that it welcomes the nuclear deal reached with Iran.
However, Royce said al-Otaiba told him that the UAE "no longer felt bound" by those provisions of the agreement. While he said al-Otaiba did not explicitly state that his country was walking away from them, Royce said, "I took that to mean that they had the right to do that and that it was under consideration."
Royce and other opponents of the Iran nuclear deal have repeatedly warned that the accord will unleash a cascade of proliferation in the unstable Middle East or set off an arms race in a hotbed for terrorists. Proponents say it will make the region safer by preventing Tehran from having the means to produce bomb material for more than a decade or longer.
At a House subcommittee hearing on Sept. 10, Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, quizzed Frank Klotz, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, about whether the UAE had contacted the U.S. about wanting to forego the part of the 123 Agreement that restricts it from enriching uranium. Klotz said he had no knowledge of it.
The United States has signed similar 123 Agreements with about 20 countries. The name comes from Section 123 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act, which requires such accords when the U.S. is transferring significant amounts of nuclear material, equipment or components to other nations for peaceful energy production. The goal is to prevent further proliferation of material that also can be used to build nuclear weapons.
The UAE's pledge not to enrich has been dubbed the "gold standard" in 123 Agreements.
Yes, the "gold standard" in 123 agreements, which means America is about to go "off the gold standard" (so to speak) thanks to Obama's deal with President Rouhani. Here's a bit more on 123 Agreements from the National Nuclear Security Administration:
Section 123 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act requires the conclusion of a specific agreement for significant transfers of nuclear material, equipment, or components from the United States to another nation. Section 123 Agreements are important tools in advancing U.S. nonproliferation principles. These Agreements act in conjunction with other nonproliferation tools, particularly the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to establish the legal framework for significant nuclear cooperation with other countries. Moreover, the Agreements allow for cooperation in other areas, such as technical exchanges, scientific research, and safeguards discussions. In order for a country to enter into such an Agreement with the United States, that country must commit itself to adhering to U.S.- mandated nuclear nonproliferation norms. The United States has entered into agreements with the following states or groups of states:
States that have Agreements for Cooperation with the United States:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Egypt
- European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom)1
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Korea, Republic of (ROK)
- Morocco
- Norway
- Russia
- South Africa
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
And so, it would appear that America's Nobel Peace Prize winning President and Washington's bike-racing Secretary of State have inadvertently stumbled across what might end up being the most catastrophic unintended consequence in the history of statecraft.
That is, the Iran nuclear deal may have just caused all of the nations on the list shown above to reconsider their commitment to the "gold standard" of nonproliferation.
So rather than deter Iran - which clearly hasn't worked, given everything noted above - all Washington has done is cause the rest of the world to question whether they too can take steps towards building a bomb and with that, we may have just witnessed a foreign policy blunder that trumps what we've been witnessing in Syria - and that's saying something.
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Cocksucker!
In Obama's world there are no consequences. You mileage, however, may vary.
Obama: The Smartest kneegrow in the room.....
Affirfmitive action hire.
You are correct, sir.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_ac...
I am pretty sure Iran hasn't signed it and the deal is a farce to throw poo in Obama's face.
Iran backed those evil Houthis? Oh noes, Mr. Durden! Maybe those 45 soldiers should have stayed in their own fucking country instead of going to the Houthi's country, where the House of Saud is bombing the crap out of civilians in their attempt to exterminate all Shia. When did you become a mouthpiece for the Saudi government? And are we back on the Obama gave Iran the bomb lie? How about the truth: "According to published details of the deal which is published by the U.S. government, IAEA inspectors would have access to all of the nuclear facilities including enrichment facilities, the supply chain that supports the nuclear program and uranium mines as well as continuous surveillance at uranium mills, centrifuge rotors and bellows production and storage facilities. Iran will be required to grant access to the IAEA to investigate suspicious sites or allegations of a covert enrichment facility, conversion facility, centrifuge production facility, or yellowcake production facility anywhere in the country."
You voted for Barry, didn't you?
Barry, like Hillary is another neoliberal wall-street neocon. I voted for Dennis Kucinich, and when he lost the primary, Jill Stein.
Barry is so impressed with himself...and history will show how fucking stupid he really is...what a fucking moron.
I've finally worked it out. Ramirez is one of ZH's Tyler Durdens.
..
Fundamental Transformation
Change You Better Believe In.
The folks who rant about Barry being stupid or a fool are merely showing their own ignorance. There is little that Barry does that has not been pre-planned and reviewed and approved by the Center for American Progress (Soros). After 7 years of this shit you should not be surprised. The next 15 months are going to be so absolutely awesome you won’t believe it (probably not in a good way). So wake the fuck up already.
You dont have have voted for Barry to see the problems with this article and its conclusions. I got the feeling the Tylers gave John Bolton a guest gig.
thank you... thank you... thank you... Tyler Durden for publishing this insightful article.
How many times have I shouted from the rooftops in every important internet forum I could find what a destructive "barrel-bomb" in our foreign policy this agreement would precipitate!
Now we know the full implications of this decision. After the UAE, what other countries on that list will go ahead funding and implementing their own nuclear bomb programs?
Hundreds.
Barry was born a shit-for-brains red-diaper baby. We have one year to restore the Republic.
This whole issue is a diversion from the existential threat posed by the strategic nuclear arsenals of the US and Russia, whose arsenals contain approximately 14,700 of the 15,800 nuclear weapons in the global nuclear arsenal. http://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/
A US-Russian strategic nuclear war, even a "successful" nuclear first-strike using US or Russian launch-ready nculear weapons, which destroyed 100% of the opposing side's nuclear forces, would still cause the population of the "winning" side to die from nuclear famine . . . along with the rest of humanity.
https://fas.org/pir-pubs/nuclear-war-nuclear-winter-and-human-extinction/
Not saying much
Of course he did.
The Iranians (regardless of who you like or don't like) don't get along well with the rest of the Gulf Council nations (GCC). So a nuked Iran is seen there as a threat by the others and vice versa. (Just the way it is, not taking sides, here, kiddies)
It's whispered that KSA already has purchased nukes from Pakistan and have bought 3rd party Scuds, etc, from The Norks (in exchange for a barber) and The Pakis, etc.
Money buys a lotta crap.
So with KSA hating the Iranians and Iran siding with the Rooskies and Syria, blocking the gas pipeline (which has fallen by the side, kinda) that leaves Israel and KSA as unnatural allies (Who have been teamed up many times in the past, anyhow).
Then who else hates America? Why, just about everybody else.
So, why the fuck not get a nuke while you can? No reason NOT To! I mean, not a single bully in the neighborhood that you can trust to even be in proximity to you!
Plus, GazProm started taking bids for the construction of NordStream2 which runs under the Baltic from Rooskia to Doocheland, bypassing.... Guess who? Ukraine!
Why the fuck not get a nuke? Like asking somebody in Compton if they want a gun.
It has been said he's the Anti-Christ (not meant as a religious comment, merely prophetic) and as every day goes by, he seems to just get better and better at it, no?
who knows if Oblamo is Sunni or Shia?
thanks
He's half-white, half-black, half-christian, half-muslim, half-capitalist (not really), half-communist (at least), half a fag, and a half-wit.
Hope this clarifies.
Did you forget drug mule and prostitute?
To clarify further, he's a little bit of everything and a whole lot of nothing.
Obama is full of Shiite....unless he just gave himself an enema prior to Reggie stopping by.
0 is both.
He is the one they have been waiting for.
12th.
He is one confused pup about all of that.
Indo=sunni.
Like the vast majority of the world's muslims.
Disclaimer: I have not the faintest idea whether he is a muslim, nor do I give a flying fuck. A man's religion is his own fucking business, so long as he doesn't proselytize.
The anti-christ is interpreted to be a charismatic sort that will be able to hypnotize with his words. Obamma seems to be a long shot. Maybe, some guy like Johnny Olsen on the olld Price is Right. Come on down!!!
Have you talked to any of his followers? Try having a conversation with one of those crazy bastards and you'll see just how enthralled with him they are.
If pandering to retards was the litmus test for the anti-christ we would have a helluva problem on our hands.
Well, the majority of Merikuns are retards, so there you have it.
Actually, they aren't. Most will make a well informed decision if they are given the fact. The problem is they rely on the MSM for their facts. And that is the problem with Merikuns. TA
actually, they are. you must not get out much. You want to see an "average" american? go to a walmart and walk around a little while. If they haven't figured out that the entire system of govt and economics in the US is set up to fuck them and that the entire purpose of the MSM is to provide cover for that system, they are retards.
"The problem is they rely on the MSM for their facts."
In today's internet information world, that's why they are defined as "retards". You just proved the case.
My understanding is that half of them are below average intelligence.
Dr. you are correct, here is some evidence.
chocolate bar
vs
silver bar
Mark Dice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhTFz_SGw0
gives me that really warm, fuzzy feeling inside
If you've talked to one, you've talked to them all. They all download the same talking points to their shared brain and argue the same way. It would be funny if they weren't so pathetic.
If that had a brain,they would be even more dangerous.
At least the FSA that voted for Obama made sense. They had an undiguised rationale. If free shit was your game then Obama was the name.
The Others?
HAHAHA. What putzes.
You think we'll survive his term? I'm beginning to think it's a long shot.
He's gonna get us all killed, Doc.
No, that's not the plan. Like all sociopaths, the plan is to enslave us. To be obedient debt slaves... serfs. It's the only way sociopaths live. They MUST dominate and control everyone else. It's in their DNA. They have designed the system to do just this, including creating the security state to insure their will is enforced. The New Feudal World Order. The plan to kill will only be implemented if there is revolution. And revolution will only happen if their glorious system implodes. That is why they do EVERYTHING to prevent the imposion of the system. And by EVERYTHING, I mean EVERYTHING. The sociopath has no empathy or moral compass, so they will do EVERYTHING to protect their sick twisted concepts, and sacrifice EVERYTHING doing it, including even feeding on their own family, and finally each other. In their mind, if their system goes to hell, there are only two ways out for them.... suicide or war. The weak sociopaths choose suicide. The strong choose war. So it's easy to figure out the intermediate, as well as the final steps they will take. Just watch the tells... and plan accordingly.
Yes, everything. Especially manipulating the "markets"
"As an aside, don't forget that the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen sent 45 UAE soldiers home in bodybags last month. "
It was actually more than that. Ignoring that, thanks, AGAIN, for parroting western MSM horseshit deceptively labelling the houthis as nothing more than an Iranian backed insurgent group. Also, nice work on seemingly legitimizing any presence the UAE / Gulf Coast mongoloids have in Yemen.
Were the Houthis Iranian backed terrorists when they participated in the 2011 revolution installing a Western puppet? Probably not.
I would think they became terrorists ( apparently identified as so here too ) when they took exception to the policies that were put in place by the Western puppet government which made the lives of countless yemenis worse.
Speaking of which, their neigbors bombing their weddings has done wonders for quality of life. DAMN IRAN.
...I have scary dreams. [/Newt]
Nobody will have the right to enrich in ten years... nobody but Kazakhstan.
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iaea-and-kazakhstan-sign-agreement-...
https://atokenmanblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/astana-mean-time/
"An ICBM in every pot!"
And praise Allah for making the U.S. the only Nation to ever use them multiple times and will again if they think they can!
"We cannot have a missle.... or a mineshaft gap!"
To play "chicken" with. (madcow)
Let's all focus on the real threat to humanity, global climate change. /sarc
If it gets bad we'll just bring on a little "nuclear winter" and cool thing off a bit.
For all you alarmists out there:
https://atokenmanblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/environmentalism-conserva...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ItmaEvX77Y
The best video to expose the Global Warming Climate Change hoax, should be required by all high school science classes and history/social studies classes.
Amazing how the Democrats, with their near-100% support from organized labor, can take a Union-crushing idea like "Climate Change" and run with it as the cornerstone of their platform (now that their wish-list has otherwise been fulfilled), and still maintain the support of Labor. Free shit trumps all...
Free shit "trumps" all...
I got that.
ooopsie!
Kinda OT:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/anderson-cooper-opposing_b_8...
Paging Salvadore Allende, Mr. Allende, call on line two. It's Richard Helms.
Cue the little girl with the daisy.
This administration has been on big blunder, both foreign and domestically.
unstatement of the decade
"Believe me folks, those are not mushroom clouds. They are unicorn farts"
B.O.
Whenever the Barry the Meccan Candidate talks about the wonders of his peaceful deal with Iran I envision South Park's Saddam Hussein - "Hey! relax guy! It's a great deal, trust me!"
the USA will be cleaning up Obama's turds for the next 25 years.
Start with the proto-fascist medical supply system known as Obamacare. A highly controlled and regulated "Market" where favored firms are permitted to run an oligopoly, as long as they are political insiders and support the political and policy lines of the government.
Nothing will be cleaned up. It will just be made shittier.
are there two nitwits really defending OBama...are you on crack?
At least the gigglesworth administration has been amazingly consistent with always making the worst possible decisions for the future.
Long EMP-protected geiger counters!
(Lead) cod pieces will come back into fashion.
Nothing new there. T'was ever thus. The only difference is the more interconnected and dependent we all are, the greater the population, the mess will be exponentially bigger.
Nothing is coincidence. All has been pre determined by others.
What, everybody's getting nukes? I guess this is bullish for stocks!
The only thing Obama could set off is a strong and immediate urge to deficate, and or vomit violently...
But they gave voters all that free stuff.........
...I'm scared. [/Newt]
Just as “higher wages for everyone” sounds good on paper,
What is it with you asshole libertarians who take such liberties with other people's living standards?
Yes, I know. Here come all the down votes.
And the government doesn't take liberties with people's living standards when it mandates a minimum wage? It is mandating that one person's ability to consume be transferred to another because it makes some folks feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And it doesn't work. There is a limit to how fast and how cheap resources can be extracted, processed and put on the shelf for consumers to consume. Changing the minimum wage will not change that. It will just cause a hiccup at best, and then we'll be right back where we started, at best.
As long as you get your way and other people have to starve so you can have yours, that's all that matters.
More down votes. Does anyone around here actually give a shit about anyone BESIDES themselves?
Do you give a shit that raising the minimum wage DOES NOT FUCKING WORK? No? Fine, ride off into the sunset on your unicorn.
Do you care about anyone but yourself?
Incidentally, Michael Albert has written about this in his 2003 Verso Press book, Parecon: Life After Capitalism
But you're not opposed to the minimum wage because it skews prices. You're opposed to it because you're a typical selfish libertarian asshole.
The real minimum wage is always zero. It is only the anti-human immoral reprobates that think mandating via mortal imperilment ushers in utopia.
Same question. Does anyone matter but you?
I want everyone to prosper and live in peace. That is why I, unlike you, don't like making people with guns force other people to hand over money to others under mortal threat.
That's YOU. You are the immoral reprobate that dehumanizes your friends, family, and neighbors. You are the one that removes value and worth to others lives.\
THAT's YOU.
If some people are poor, it sucks to be them, right? Just say it. Libertarians don't give a shit about poverty.
ZH is the evolution of Ayn Rand.
I'm not a libertarian. Got any other false presuppositions you care to bleat out?
Ayn Rand is dead and spending eternity with the consequences of her earthly decisions.
Why don't you explain to the good readers why you think that men with guns should take from some and give that to others?
*Sets sundial
As long as you have yours.
I EARNED mine. I've been homeless 3x. NEVER took a CENT from other people. I also donate to charities, time and $...something I am certain that you do not do.
Tell us all what is wrong with being poor.
Poor people deserve it, I know.
If you're rich you deserve it, and if you're poor you deserve it. I know.
Oh, the compassion.
"Poor is a state of Mind."
Go read Mother Jones fucking idiot.
Mother Jones is for liberals.
From telling you that minimum wage doesn't work, you "infer" that I don't care about people. Great logic there kiddo! I tell you what, if $15/hr is good, $100/hr must be great! Lets do it and see what happens to the job market and the value of the currency! It'll be GREAT! People like you will cause more harm to others because you want to feel all warm and fuzzy inside than libertarians. I might as well be talking to a medieval doctor telling him that blood letting via leaches doesn't work, then having that doctor tell me that I don't care about the patient. Don't like hearing that? Fine, get on your unicorn.
No, I infer that you don't care about people besides youself because you don't care about people besides yourself.
LOL, you're a dipshit. And what facts would you put forth that I don't care about other people?
I'll accuse you of not caring about other people because you advocate a course of action that will either pass higher costs to other people, lowering their standard of living, or take people who have shit jobs and put them into the less desirable position of having NO job.
You don't care about any of that. You just want yours.
Keep thinking that. Tell me, did you ground work your unicorn before breaking it?
As long as you have yours.
LOL, you're one of those morons who thinks that there is a magic bullet solution to our economic problems that we are facing and the ones that we are going to face. Like if somebody waves a magic wand, they're going to go away. And then anybody who doesn't agree you label as a heartless bastard. You are one dimensional in your thinking. Just remember, the course of action that you advocate will result in people getting laid off, and your relentlessness of advocating for a higher minimum wage tells me that you do not give a shit about them. They don't even exist in your mind, which is an expression of your inability to even understand the concept of unintended consequences.
It is just trolling. I'm done toying with it. It already confessed to being immoral.
Actually, I'm an anti-capitalist, pro-pareconist.
No, no, no, you're just a butthurt little cunt. Get onto your unicorn and ride away.
As long as you have yours.
It is better to go without cunt than to be a cunt.
Pensions are too high. Social Security should not exist. They're taking your hard-earned money.
Finally, something we can agree with.
Obama is a war...
2 weeks, 1 day
trolling along...
As long as you have yours.
The next step is simply calling him all sorts of dirty names. He'll go away.
Of course I'll go away. Or you could just ignore me. Won't change the fact you think poor people deserve their fate.
Get on your unicorn, cunt.
As a corollary to the insights in this excellent artice may I add another own goal: the sense of betrayal and loss of trust in the US by her traditional allies not only in the M-E, but wherever the US has strategic interests to protect. No good blaming messrs. porridge head and ketchup though. After all they are merely representative of the times when the liberal West has abandoned the will to be prepared for war in order to win the peace.
"White racism is the biggest threat to America Today"
Barak H. Obowelmovement 2015
I think he really believes that.
+ 1
Considering what the AmeriKunts fucking did to them, I hope the fucking USSA is soon destroyed, faster than that cock sucking Kenyan golf playing freak you have running that shit hole you call a country.
Allen_H
If you are stuck on "hoping" then hope middle America throws out the Israeli lobby and half the money in Pentagon's budget goes to subsidize American energy, while the USA gets the fuck out of the Middle East.
I can hope too.
K
And so, it would appear that America's Nobel Peace Prize winning President and Washington's bike-racing Secretary of State have inadvertently stumbled across what might end up being the most catastrophic unintended consequence in the history of statecraft.
Hyperbole much?
Iran has had its nuclear facilities attacked by Stuxnet, has had its nuclear scientists murdered, has zero nuclear weapons compared to 7100 for the US, Iran has constantly been threatened with nukes by both US and Israel, and Iran is a big threat?
Great.
Let's get on with the reset.
It's a good thing that all the enablers have been outed.
If the Mideast wants to blow itself up via a nuclear armageddon, who am I to stop it?....I'm already tired of all the daily shitty news that emanates from that region...
Silly Able Ape. Remember when Iran chants death to Amerika it means it. Long ago it had the missiles to hit Israel. The newest bunch are deigned to travel much, much further. No why is that d'ya think?
But maybe you like the sand with your head buried deep in it.
Irani missiles cannot even remotely target the United States. Their range is THOUSANDS of miles too short.
But they can hit Italy, Austria, and maybe parts of South Eastern France.
Really. In that case they will keep working 'till they get the range just right for your home town gcjohns. Now back to the sport and your duff beer.
danepol
So Iran is going to launch missiles at the U.S. and the U.S. is just going to sit back for a few hours until they hit America ? What a fucking idiot !
U.S. aircraft carriers and submarines would have Iran incinerated long before the Ayatollah can praise the big, angry guy in the sky.
See also: US withdraws carrier group from teh ME for maintenance.
"Boomers" run silent, run deep.
What's holding them up?
Obama the Destroyer: he who has unravelled the riddle of steal
CROM!
Riddle of Steel. Local band.
Of course.
Hiroshima was horrible. Fuck Obama...
It wasn't any worse than any other bombing.
Well,
Whomever cannot respond with nuclear weapons is likely to be fired upon.
Did I mention that the US has divested itself of most of its nuclear material mining and enrichment facilities?
most useless presidency ever 100 times worse than bush presidency
This is far and away THE most important story carried by ZH. Hope you understand what it means to you and your loved ones. Or did Obama persuade you that the age of Aquarius finally arrived with him?
FUNdamental transformation bishes.
hand-wringing mumbo-jumbo. The nuclear race in the ME was set off when a very small country of 3 mln (1970) decided that they could never be safe without a nuclear weapon. Agreements and international trust are fine for every other country, evidently. The trouble is this very small country doesn't emulate Denmark, punching above its weight diplomatically, staying alert and aware and engaged. oh no. They just can't resist flaunting their secret stash, and threatening, and trampling the neighbors. Because they have the big, dumb US to be the enforcer. Mafia style, but I digress. The US gave Pakistan, which shares a border with Iran, nuclear weapons. We dis-armed Qaddafi and he ended up with a bayonet in his lower intestine. Someone thinks the agreement will get the US inside Iran's fortress to really look around, locate the strongbox.
Go watch the "Italian Job" again. And stop getting played.
I disagree sandhillexit. The US was, is and remains the No. 1 hatred for the mullahs of Iran. Its a hatred none of us can understand because our minds are not set up that way. And BTW ... it has nothing, nothing whatsoever to do with that little miricle that you lefties love bashing called Israel. Since you don't want to recognise the problem, you take refuge in pretending its not there. Only it is and the hand wringing is your own.
Maybe I'll say this differently. Your pal Obama has placed the US in mortal danger. How do you respond? Pick on Israel. Fool.
Nobody I respect more than the Danes. Just came back from Copenhavn. They believe in themselves, and it shows. They don't actually spend every last breathing minute telling the rest of the world how dangerous and nasty the Germans are.
The wierdest thing about zerohedge is the lame tendency here to attack the speaker, when you don't know the speaker. "pal Obama" "lefties" instead of engaging the argument. One would think that the anonymity would tend to steer the conversation to the argument, the facts and the assumptions. One thing I learned in the dining room of International House at the Univ of Chicago is that if all you got is ad hominem then you don't got nuthin.'
That said, I will venture to guess you have not one Persian, Turkish, or Palestinian friend. Because then you would be required to add their shared humanity to your set of assumptions. But you are an expert on the "mind of the mullahs" because, well, there IS a psychological term for it.
sandhillexit
"The US gave Pakistan, which shares a border with Iran, nuclear weapons."
Uhhh.... Candu reactors sold to India and Pakistan by that peace loving, non-war profiteering country- Canada.
It took me a long time to understand what my mother meant when she told me the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
K
What does Obama do, exactly, other than...
drone civilians,
attack known Nobel prize hospitals with US Special Forces and AC-130 gunships,
incinerate intensive care patients in their beds,
prosecute Fantasy Football while letting billion-dollar bankster crooks off scot-free,
golf,
run guns to Mexican drug lords,
order the military to stand down while our embassy is being attacked,
fire most of our flag-rank military officers,
allow trillion-dollar fighter jets that are proven to have no chance,
interfere with FBI investigations,
knock over chess pieces and shit all over the board,
drop crates of ammo on his pet head-chopping terrorists,
make profound foreigh policy blunders that they will be clucking about 100 years from now,
force citizens to buy a private sector product at gunpoint while costing them their doctor,
and put the US Constitution on a roll in the bathroom?
(Not necessarily in that order.)
Obama's alliance to the Muslim brotherhood.
No discussion at all about the REAL ELEPHANT in the room.
How about Israel's nukes?
Israel has actual nuclear weapons.
Iranian deal has Iran promising NOT TO ENRICH to weapons grade. As legal signatories they are allowed to enrich for nuclear power (lower grades of enrichment).
This notion that they are going all the way to weapons grade is not proven by fact, and is suppositon. Supposition is driven by the fear centers of weak amygdala region from hairless monkeys. Prove IRAN's intentions before making suppositions - nobody has proven they are going to weapons grade, and they insist they won't.
If IRAN does go all the way, it will be because they are under pressure from externalities, meaning existential threat from Israel and others in that orbit.
Persia is an ancient civilization, they will not be dissected and split apart for Eretz Messianic (Kabala/Zion) Israel.
Attempts to exploit fault lines in Russia and convert it to become many small countries failed, and so will it also fail in Persia. Cabala is false ideology and the ravings of psychotics.
As I'm fond of saying, strip away money power and stop funding madness. Zion and attendant pyschopathy gets its enormous funding via usury from international credit money system.
When have Persian's tried to put the world on debt hooks and maneuver mankind to nefarious ends? When have the Persian's gone on hegemonic drives to take over their region? Are the Shia of Persia cutting off heads and demanding people convert or die? No is the answer to all of the questions.
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I struggle to remember when Israel last chanted "death to America". Or boasted about missiles with the range to hit continental Eurpose and soon the US too. Go peddle your hatred and bile elsewhere.
You think Iran is an existential threat to the US homeland? I don't care what their street mobs do or say.
Need to get your tongue off of israel's asshole and go back to gentle bestiality, Dane. They might not chant Death to AmeriKa, but they don't love us. israel is a parasite, once AmeriKa is used up, it will move on to some other nation. It's their way and it has always been the jewish way.
Iran should already have nukes just to point them at that israeli cancer and keep those rabid, racist Chosenite shitbags in their corner where they belong.
Oops sorry, fucking animals is no longer legal in Denmark, so much for all that tourism from NYC and Tel Aviv
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32411241/denmark-passes-law-to-ban...
"It takes a hard man to make a chicken amorous!" -- translation from English to Spanish and back to English of KFC's
slogan: "It takes a tough man to make chicken good!"
Why would you need a law against bestiality?
If only someone had a FINAL SOLUTION.
You are a Protocaler IIRC.
The end.
Hmmmm. An article on nuclear weapon proliferation in the middle east and not one word about the only mid east county with them. ISRAEL.
So how about this for headline: "Does Israel Having Nuclear Weapons Set Off A Mid East Nuclear Arms Race"?
The reason trolls look for opportunities to attack israel is 'cos they're losers and the miracles of that little country drive them nuts.
You don't have to be a troll to see the multitude of opportunities for criticizing the instigators in charge. Unless you forgot the /s tag, then never mind.
I am afraid that wasn't sarcasm. The man has proven his loyalty. He deserves a high level sensitive government job. /s