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"They
don't have the courage to attack Iran.
The age of military
attacks is over. Now we've reached the time for
dialogue and understanding. Weapons and threats are
a thing of the past."
- Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad (11/23/09) |
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How certain were you in
November 2009 that the Iranians under Ahmadinejad
and his religious superiors were up to no good vis a
vis their ongoing "nuclear power plant" program? Did
you suspect that Iran was in the early stages of
nuclear weapons development? How certain were you a
year or so earlier during the lead-up to Obama's
election?
If you have believed to any
extent, as Obama's predecessor did, that Iran is the Axis of Evil's
anchor state, hell-bent on destroying
the USA and our ally Israel as soon as
possible and by any viable means available, you
certainly were not not alone.
If, several years after the phrase Axis of Evil
was coined, you were
hearing and reading daily reports that Iran was manipulating and
funding the jihadist forces killing and maiming American military
personnel in Iraq but you were still somehow unmoved to buy into the
utter nefariousness of the Iranian regime, you were not alone in your skepticism. You were joined
by a
contingent, albeit a much smaller group, that included Barack Hussein Obama,
who is currently on a campaign to eliminate the skepticism
-- real or dramatized -- that many nations claim to have
about Iran's latest machinations.
While the "anti-war candidate" issued pronouncements of his willingness to
"sit
down unconditionally"
with anti-American rogue state dictators and
then followed up his award-winning peacefulness with
an apology tour and subsequent apologetic orations
before the UN's General Assembly, the "nuclear power
plant" project continued in Iran. Any sanctions
proposed and/or imposed by the Obama administration
have done nothing to make
Ahmadinejad
tone down his rhetoric, let alone modify the
ayatollahs' nuclear plans.
Believing about the United States (read: Obama)
that
"They don't have
the courage"
to deal strongly with
his regime has emboldened
Ahmadinejad to continue with his
"I double-dog dare you!"
rhetoric. Having his threats
repeatedly go
unanswered has emboldened his regime to increase
its
nefariousness.
A
recently-uncovered Iranian plot to assassinate the
Saudi ambassador to the United States on American
soil is pretty strong evidence that the Iranian leaders
have little, if any, fear of our current
administration. The
"Now we've reached the
time for dialogue and understanding. Weapons and
threats are a thing of the past."
part of today's featured quote is, of course, a
direct reference to the contrasting heat that the Bush administration
had put on terrorists and tyrants who threatened the USA
and its allies.
As
reported by AP, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei warned the US that any measures taken
against Tehran as a result of the revelation of the Saudi ambassador
assassination plot would
elicit a response..."If
US officials have some delusions,
[they must]
know that any unsuitable act, whether political or
security, will meet a resolute response from the
Iranian nation."
Khamenei added that the US
(read: Obama)
has accused Iran of terror in order to divert attention from
its economic woes and from the Occupy Wall Street
protests.
"By attributing an absurd and meaningless accusation
to a few Iranians, they tried ... to show that Iran
is a supporter of terrorism ... This conspiracy
didn't work and won't work,"
Khamenei said.
Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad called the accusations a
"fabricated scenario."
Add that
to his growing list of fabricated scenarios right
below the Holocaust and just above
Obama vows
"toughest sanctions"
on Iran over assassination plot.