T. Belman. Even if an Iran deal is concluded and it delays an Iranian bomb 10 years, it will put $150 Billion into Iran’s coffers within one year, If only 10% of this sum is used to support Iran’s terrorist proxies, the ME will be drastically affected to say nothing about the existential threat it will pose for Israel.
By Eliezer Sherman, ALGEMEINER
One of the ramifications of finalizing the nuclear deal with Iran would be a shifting of the balance of Middle East power in Tehran’s favor, wrote longtime State Department negotiator Dennis Ross in Politico on Monday.
If negotiators emerge from their chambers in Vienna with a finalized deal — and right now the deadline has been postponed for the second time to July 10 — and sanctions are phased out according to Iranian compliance, then within six to 12 months Iran could receive up to $150 billion in frozen assets, wrote Ross.
And “even if it chose to use 90 percent of those funds to address real domestic needs, $15 billion could have a dramatic effect on Iran’s ability to use Hezbollah and other Shiite militias to pursue its ‘resistance’ agenda in the region and continue to shift the balance of power in its favor,” wrote Ross, who was a special adviser to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Iran.
Iranian-backed groups have been engaged in violent conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, eastern Saudi Arabia and the Gaza Strip.
Ross insisted that Iran had a lot to gain from signing a nuclear agreement with world powers, albeit one, Ross cautioned, that did not back away from the framework laid out in Lausanne, Switzerland in April.
“It is permitted to preserve its enrichment infrastructure and to have an industrial-size nuclear program at the end of the 15-year period for the agreement. It will be a nuclear threshold state at that point, effectively not having given up the nuclear weapons option but simply deferring it,” he wrote.
Ross said the deal basically amounted to lifting international sanctions on Iran, which have crippled the country’s economy, in exchange for full transparency, though Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared recently that inspectors would not have access to all of Iran’s military sites, even if the International Atomic Energy Agency had substantiated suspicions.
Obama is putting Iran on the honor system. The capitulation will contain no oversight worthy of the term, and therefore will not delay an Iranian bomb by ten minutes. The $150 billion will finance Iran’s explicitly-stated goals of annihilating Israel and America. What Obama’s doing is so evil that people cannot bring themselves to comprehend it. During his entire presidency which has been scarred by one outrageous scandal after another, he has benefited greatly from the fact that Americans are unwilling to believe that their leader could possibly be so rotten.
But rotten he is.
The “broken clock that is correct twice daily” suddenly sees the light; Ross pushed for a deal @Camp David 2 to satisfy egos when he knew Arafat would not budge.