President Obama has a full court press under way to stop Congress from passing new sanctions legislation that could–could, not will–impose sanctions on Iran one year from now if negotiations break down or Iran cheats. The idea seems to be that passage of the bill would signal mistrust of Iran, or would break the spell of sincerity being cast at the negotiating table.
But what is Iran doing while the president woos legislators? Laughing at us all. Yesterday, Iran’s foreign minister–one of the reputed moderates in the Rouhani camp–was in Beirut and laid a wreath at the grave of Imad Mughniyeh.
Mughniyeh was the Hezbollah terrorist who had killed more Americans than any other man until the attack on 9/11. Mughniyeh was involved in bombing the Marine barracks in Beirut, the bombings of US embassies, the torture and killing of CIA station chief William Buckley in Beirut, the hijacking of TWA 847 and the murder of Navy diver Robert Stethem–among other acts of terror...
UPDATE: Iran's President gloats about the sucker deal Obama is taking: "world powers surrendered to Iranian nation's will"
Well, I guess that Elliott Abrams knows a lot about terrorists, having been an apologist for the Salvadoran death squads of the 1980s and illegally raising money for the Contras, and then lied to Congress about it.
ReplyDeleteHe was also part of an administration that (also illegally) armed the same terrorist-financing Iranians during the very same period that he's citing now!
The balls on some people, huh?