{"id":1948838,"date":"2023-06-16T05:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-iran-deal-that-dare-not-speak-its-name\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T05:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:13:46","slug":"bidens-iran-deal-that-dare-not-speak-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-iran-deal-that-dare-not-speak-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Unspoken Iran Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-iran-deal-that-dare-not-speak-its-name%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948838&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Column: Appeasing Iran endangers America\u2014and the world<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Imagine you are a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/microsoft-president-solarwinds-hack-biggest-ever\/\" title=\"Microsoft President: SolarWinds hack biggest ever\">senior national security official<\/a>. A revolutionary foreign power has worked for decades to undermine American strength and American alliances in a critical region. It is the world\u2019s largest sponsor of terrorism and has funded and directed proxy forces that have killed and maimed U.S. personnel. Its goal is to drive the United States from its corner of the globe and eliminate America\u2019s closest ally in the Greater Middle East. It has spent the past four presidential administrations building the military and technical infrastructure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-military-officials-warn-biden-against-rejoining-iran-nuke-deal\/\" title=\"Israeli Military Officials Warn Biden Against Rejoining Iran Nuke Deal\">produce nuclear weapons<\/a> while concealing and lying about its program. It violates human rights with impunity and has spent the past nine months brutally suppressing a popular revolt against its theocratic rule. It supplies the drones and other weaponry that Russia uses to prosecute an illegal and barbaric war on the sovereign nation of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Would you be inclined to bargain with such a regime? If your answer\u2014against all evidence\u2014is yes, then you can look forward to a short and unhappy career in Joe Biden\u2019s State Department. For President Biden is on the verge of betraying Congress and the American people by rewarding the Islamic Republic of Iran for its various misdeeds.<\/p>\n<p>According to news reports, Biden is prepared to authorize billions of dollars in payments to Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. prisoners, a halt to militia attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, a moratorium on ballistic missile sales to Russia, and a freeze on uranium enrichment at 60 percent (90 percent enriched uranium is considered weapons-grade). Biden will say this perverse arrangement is necessary to free innocents and prevent the outbreak of war. What he won\u2019t be able to do is call it a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Biden can\u2019t call the agreement a deal because he wants to avoid congressional review. The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 forbids the president from relieving nuclear-related sanctions on the Islamic Republic without congressional approval. The administration\u2019s end-run around the law is clever. It is also pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>This deal that dare not speak its name will have no force. It will rely entirely on the goodwill of the 84-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a grizzled trickster and ally of Vladimir Putin. The <em>New York Times<\/em> reports that Khamenei has authorized the deal because it leaves Iran\u2019s nuclear infrastructure in place. The second Biden begins to doubt the wisdom of paying further ransom money, Khamenei will start spinning his centrifuges once more. And if paramilitaries controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fire mortars on Americans\u2014well, he could say the bloodshed came from militants over whom he exercises no control.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that the deal-that-is-no-deal says nothing about Iran\u2019s deadliest proxy, Hezbollah, or about Iran\u2019s drone traffic. This omission is consistent with Biden\u2019s nasty habit of selling out America\u2019s allies whether it be the democratic government of Afghanistan, the peoples of Lebanon, Syria, and, of course, Israel, or the Ukrainians resisting Russian occupation. Biden\u2019s bribe\u2014what Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies calls Biden\u2019s &#8220;pay and pray&#8221; strategy of fueling the Iranian terror machine in the hope that it doesn\u2019t go nuclear\u2014is limited in scope, bereft of accountability, brazenly desperate, and lacking in strategic purpose. Its aims are political.<\/p>\n<p>Biden wants to keep the Middle East quiet ahead of Election Day 2024. That is why his support for the Iranian rebellion was merely gestural. Why he allowed these talks in Oman to continue despite Iran\u2019s assistance to Russia. Why his government welcomed the d\u00e9tente between Saudi Arabia and Iran that China brokered in April. And why he has submitted to the humiliation of paying off rogues for promises of good behavior in a few select areas.<\/p>\n<p>This is partly a story of diminished diplomatic expectations. Biden\u2019s old boss, Barack Obama, dreamed of subletting the Greater Middle East to Iran. Now Biden is left paying the bully to leave him alone. It is also another entry in the saga of Joe Biden\u2019s incompetence. In his rare discussions of foreign policy, President Biden has portrayed international relations as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. I am inclined to agree with him. Then I look at his actions\u2014where he has an awful tendency to give the authoritarians the upper hand.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Appeasing Iran does nothing to further the cause of democracy. Nor does attempting d\u00e9tente with a China that has grown in belligerence since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-iran-deal-that-dare-not-speak-its-name\/\" title=\"Biden's Unspoken Iran Deal\">spy balloon incident earlier<\/a> this year. Nor does slow-walking weapons deliveries to Ukraine while hemming and hawing over Ukraine\u2019s future in NATO. If Joe Biden wanted to preserve and promote democracy abroad, he would do more than give the occasional speech on the subject. He would mobilize hard power to confront authoritarians and deter them from hostile acts.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has made a career out of misjudgment. This sure-to-fail bargain with Iran is another entry in a depressing catalogue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Column: Iran&#8217;s appeasement poses a grave threat to America and the world. As a senior national security official, envision a foreign power relentlessly undermining US strength and alliances in a vital region. This power, the world&#8217;s top terrorism sponsor, has financed and controlled proxy forces responsible for countless deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":1948839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3706,3715,3823,27059],"class_list":["post-1948838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-bidens","tag-deal","tag-iran","tag-unspoken"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}