By lifting sanctions on Iran, Presidenđt Obamaâs nuclear deal will open the floodgates ęĻŦfor Tehranâs funding of terrorism. So says Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
On a visit to Israel Tuesday, Dempsey warned of Iranâs rulers, âI think that theyâll invest in their [terrorđ] sđ urrogates. I think they will invest in additional military capability.â
Oops: The official Obama line is âthat Tehran will spend its windfall rebuilding its economy. Nice that someone from the administration is willing to tell the truth.
Oops again: Obamaâs former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, in Houseđ ° testimony last week slaęĻmmed the idea that Washington can just snap sanctions back into place if Iranâs caught breaking the deal. âThe notion of âsnap backâ sanctions is fiction,â he said.
Thereâs more: In a huge scoop, the Associated Press revealed that Obama intends to lift not just the sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program, but others set up to punish it foâ¨r sponsoring terror and building banned missiles.
Yes, the president has promised otherwise â but administration officials figure they can lawyer their way out of that. Reports the AP: âFor example, they say measures designed to stop Iran from acquiring ballistic missiles are nuclear-related because they were imposed to push Iran into the negotiatiođŽns.â
And never mind that the record clearly shows thatâs not why those sanctionsđđ¯ were imposed.
And still more: The AP also reports that Obama officials now admit that Iran wonât have come clean about all its past nuclear work by the time the nuke deal is signed. This, even though Secretary of State John Kerry insisted as recently as April that âthey have to do it .â.â. It will be part of a final agreement.đ It has to be.â
The reason he was so insistent is that, without that disclosure, itâll be far harder to prove that an Iran isđŧ cheating later on â or to really know, as Obama has promised, that an agreeđĻment will leave Iran unable to âbreak outâ to going nuclear in less than a year.
Bottom line: The nuclear deal Obama hopes to get would leave Iran with 1) an immediate influx of $100 billion or more in cash to fund its terrorist teammates; 2) its much-desired nukes, as long as it waits a few years; and 3) lots of ręĻoom to cheat with impunity and get those nukes even sooner.
Iran is a rogue regime, a state sponsor of terror.ęĻ Anyone â hello, Mr. President â who believes it has any benign intentions is living in a fantasy world.
Or as Flynn put it: Trustiđ ēng the mullahsâ đŗpromises to abandon their nukes is just plain old âwishful thinking.â