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יום שלישי, 10 בפברואר 2015

Kissinger Fears Iran Talks Will Lead to Nuclear Mideast

Image: WSJ: Kissinger Fears Iran Talks Will Lead to Nuclear MideastFormer Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger. (Molly Riley/UPI/Landov)

Tuesday, 10 Feb 2015 09:39 AM
By Melissa Clyne
What began as talks by an international coalition to deny Iran a military nuclear option has devolved to the Obama administration negotiating with Tehran to limit its nuclear stash, an approach that "will be to move from preventing proliferation to managing it," former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In an editorial on Kissinger’s Jan. 29 remarks to the Senate, The Wall Street Journal points out that "the dean of American strategists who negotiated nuclear pacts with the Soviets in the 1970s," who "always speaks with care not to undermine a U.S. administration" — has voiced grave concerns about the Obama administration’s anemic negotiations with Iran.

"[Kissinger] is clearly worried about how far the U.S. has moved from its original negotiating position that Iran cannot enrich uranium or maintain thousands of centrifuges," according to Journal.

"And he is concerned that these concessions will lead the world to perceive that such a deal would put Iran on the cusp of being a nuclear power."

A March 31 deadline is looming for an agreement to strike a comprehensive dealbetween Tehran and the P5+1 nations, which is comprised of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States, to contain Iran's suspected nuclear program.

Talks have been ongoing since an interim accord was reached in November 2013.

Even if the world believes Iran’s nuclear sites have undergone valid inspections and all of its capabilities are known, it will forever alter the region, Kissinger said.

"If the other countries in the region conclude that America has approved the development of an enrichment capability within one year of a nuclear weapon, and if they then insist on building the same capability, we will live in a proliferated world in which everybody — even if that agreement is maintained — will be very close to the trigger point," he said.

According to the Journal, by allowing Iran to have nukes, "the Obama administration may be underwriting a new era of global nuclear proliferation."

Saudi Arabia could buy a bomb from Pakistan, according to the Journal, and Turkey, who "won’t sit by and let Shiite Iran dominate the region," would surely become nuclear. Add in Egypt, "which has long viewed itself as the leading Arab state; and perhaps one or more of the Gulf emirates, which may not trust the Saudis.

"That’s in addition to Israel, which is assumed to have had a bomb for many years without posing a regional threat."

Kissinger’s sage concerns and the newspaper’s certitude that President Barack Obama is "so bent on an Iran deal that he will make almost any concession to get one," are further evidence that Congress needs to "vote on any agreement."

"This is a very different world than the one we have been living in since the dawn of the nuclear age," the Journal said. "A world with multiple nuclear states, including some with revolutionary religious impulses or hegemonic ambitions, is a very dangerous place.

"A proliferated world would limit the credibility of U.S. deterrence on behalf of allies. It would also imperil U.S. forces and even the homeland via ballistic missiles that Iran 
is developing but are not part of the U.S.-Iran talks."

Obama Invited Leader Of Terror Co-Conspirator Group To Meeting







Security: After complaints, the White House finally released names of the "Muslim leaders" Obama met with behind closed doors Wednesday. Now we know why it was secret. The list includes members of known jihadist groups.
After stonewalling for days about the names of participants at the almost two-hour meeting with the president and his national security advisers — a meeting that was granted at the request of Muslim Advocates, an Islamist group that's demanded a stop to NYPD surveillance of radical mosques, anti-terrorist drone strikes and Gitmo detentions — the White House quietly attached the list of attendees to the back of its daily press briefing transcript Thursday evening, according to the Washington Times.
Among the 14 lucky Muslim luminaries were:
• Imam Mohamed Magid, who preaches at a fundamentalist Northern Virginia mosque that has listed a number of trustees and major donors whose offices and homes were raided after 9/11 by federal agents on suspicion of funding terrorists.
• Azhar Azeez, president of the Islamic Society of North America, a known radical Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas front group that remains on the Justice Department's list of unindicted terrorist co-conspirators.
• Sherman Jackson, who as the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought at USC, once gave a lecture at a conference in Toronto that has been described by "Campus Watch" as a "call to battle" between Muslims and the West.
• Hoda Hawa, national policy adviser of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which was founded by known members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihadist movement.
The group's former president, Salam al-Marayati, was once kicked off the National Commission on Terrorism after his defense of terrorist acts and the groups who carry them out was revealed.
It's noteworthy that no representatives of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, a terror-tied group the FBI has banned from outreach events, were invited to the White House. The FBI says CAIR is a "front" for the Hamas terrorist group.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the White House ordered the Muslim attendees not to talk after the meeting about what Obama said during the discussion. However, some have broken the ground rules and leaked what was discussed.
Topping the agenda was "anti-Muslim bigotry" and banning Muslim terrorist profiling by federal law enforcement. Participants said they got a sympathetic ear from Obama. The president reportedly entertained the idea of naming Muslim judges to federal courts.


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