Saturday, July 2, 2022

Editorial -- The Iran Deal

Reason number 999,999 why nobody likes Joe Biden – he can’t be counted on to keep his word. While Barack Obama was President, he lived up, for once, to his promise to keep us out of wars by striking the Iran Deal, which limits Iran’s ability to make a nuclear weapon, which protects one of our closest allies in the region, Israel, from attack.

But when he took office, Donald Trump broke the deal in 2018. When he ran for office in 2020, Joe Biden promised he would heal the soul of the nation. He promised he would return to the Iran Deal. But once he took power, Joe Biden broke his word. 

This is the problem with Joe Biden in a nutshell. He is happy to promise whatever people want to hear when he comes for your votes, but when it actually comes time to do something, he does what his handlers in the Military Industrial Complex want. And besides, given his desire to “stick it to the Russians,” anything that the Russians support, he is automatically against.

While the present administration does not seem interested in conflict with Iran, there is no guarantee that a future administration won’t start one. Donald Trump, on three occasions, brought us to the brink of conflict with Iran. 

In 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin set out on a course of conflict with the West at the Munich Security Conference, and one of his main excuses was the conflict in Iraq. Continuing to refuse to bargain in good faith with the Iranians when it was the US which broke its word will only give President Putin and other dictators like him further excuses to refuse to listen to the US.


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