Clinton’s Fingerprints Show Up on Iran Nuclear Deal

Thanks to Mark Lander of the New York Times, we now know that the negotiations for the Iran nuclear “deal” – which merely postponed the abject surrender on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons until 2025 – began long before John Kerry replaced Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.

Lander, as cited by David Ignatius in the Washington Post, notes that the talks actually began in May 2009, while also revealing “how early and extensively Clinton and her State Department staff were involved in the Iran talks, despite her initial wariness.”

The timeline matters for reasons beyond the campaign. It was also meant that talks began before the regime’s brutal crackdown on the Green Revolution of the Summer of 2009 – and continued despite it. Or as Ignatius put it…

Obama had already sent a secret letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proposing negotiations but had received a diffident response. “Ismaily assured Ross he could bring the Iranians to the table” and that Oman would be “an ideal venue for secret negotiations.”

Both promises turned out to be true. First, though, came the uproar of the Iranian presidential election in 2009 and the brutal suppression of the “Green Revolution.” Some critics have argued that Obama’s eagerness for a diplomatic opening to Iran blunted the U.S. response to the stolen victory by hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But the Omani mediation track continued.

You may count yours truly among the critics.

For starters, the decision to continue talks after the post-election crackdown reveals a naivete that I have always felt infects “realism” in foreign policy: the idea that a regime so willing to lie to its own people and kill those who insist on the truth can still be trusted by international diplomats. I had hoped we learned that lesson when the Soviets – who lied to their own people as often as they breathed – repeatedly violated treaty arrangements with us. I had hoped that Saddam Hussein – who played an elaborate series of games in an attempt to both assure Washington he did not have weapons of mass destruction and convince Tehran that he did have them, at the same time – would have enlightened these people. Don’t even get me started about the Chinese Communist Party and their repeatedly broken promises on northern Korea – still blissfully ignored by nominees of the three largest parties (and yes, that includes my choice, Gary Johnson).

Yet the self-deception continues, and we can now say for certain that includes Hillary Clinton vis a vis the mullahcracy of Iran.

Ignatius is also convinced that this issue “deserves more attention in this campaign,” especially now that it’s clear “Clinton helped get it started.” I fear his concern (which I share) will go unheeded. If anything, Donald Trump is more a naive “realist” than Clinton, insisting he can get “good deals” with anyone. I should note that Johnson is also unhappy with the Iran deal, but I would note that, wouldn’t I?

As it is, this is about Mrs. Clinton, and what her record shows us about how she would govern – and thus, if she should. Her willingness to ingore the bloody crackdown on Iran and allow negotiations with the mullahcracy to continue shows (1) a lack of willingness to do the hard work necessary to help tyrannized populations take their nations back, and (2) a dangerous willingness to trust said tyrants.

America can not afford her naivete any more than it can afford Trump’s.

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