The Continuing Insanity of the Iran Nuclear Deal

This excerpt from Melanie Phillips' Substack column is a definite must-read -- especially by Joe Biden!

"The hellish ruins of American leadership."

"If reports of Biden's latest concessions to Iran are true, this comes close to treason"

"One shouldn’t be surprised, of course; but it’s hard not to be astounded, horrified, shocked to the very core by the lengths to which the Biden administration is reportedly going to surrender America and the free world to the Islamic revolutionary regime of Iran. 

Two weeks ago, an attempt was made to murder the author Sir Salman Rushdie, who has been living since 1989 under an Iranian regime fatwa ordering his killing, by a Muslim devotee of the regime who repeatedly stabbed Rushdie on a New York stage where he was about to deliver a talk.

Two days previously, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) terror network was charged with soliciting the assassination in Washington DC of the former US National Security Advisor, John Bolton. The same man also reportedly offered $1 million for the murder of the former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.  

Now it appears that Iran is moving towards accepting the terms of the nuclear deal laid down by the European Union acting in effect as a proxy for the United States, which has bent every sinew to secure such a deal ever since President Joe Biden arrived in the White House.

On Gatestone, Khaled abu Toameh reports the extreme alarm in the Arab world about this deal. He quotes  Sayed Zahra, deputy editor of the Gulf's Akhbar Al-Khaleej newspaper, who accuses Biden of being in collusion with Iran and says that the alleged breakthrough appears to have occurred after Biden decided to waive two pre-conditions:

    'First, Biden decided to waive the demand to include Iran's terrorist role in the region in the talks [in Vienna],' Zahra wrote. 'Biden decided not to address this issue at all, nor the role of terrorist militias affiliated with Iran in the Arab countries.' The second demand Biden gave up, according to Zahra, includes the issue of Iran's ballistic missile program and the threat it poses to the security and stability of the region and the US itself and its interests.

Good grief. Last month, the IRGC said Iran had ballistic missiles capable of turning New York into 'hellish ruins'. If this account of Biden’s concession is true, then it really does begin to look like the Biden administration is committing something very close to treason."