How Hilary’s foreign policy ‘succeeded’ for Iran
Hardline Ayatolla Ahmad Janati
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, declared Thursday June 2 in a major foreign policy address: ‘We are now safer than we were before this agreement (the International-Iran nuclear deal).”
A short while before her speech, the State Department, published its yearly report on world terror, and determined, as in past years, that Iran remains “the leading state sponsor of terrorism, on account of its support for designated terrorist groups and proxy militias in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.”
Three days earlier, on May 31, scientists at the Institute for Science and International Security, published an extensive analysis of the second report of the IAEA in Vienna, whose job it is to monitor the Iranian nuclear program and establish whether Tehran’s is complying with its commitments.
Their report is titled: IAEA’s Second JCPOA Report: Key Information Still Missing.
The American scientists found oversights in the international watchdog's report, suggesting collaboration between the Obama administration and the IAEA to conceal Iranian violations.
The scientists offered some examples of these omissions:
Data is lacking on the number of centrifuges, including advanced models, operating in Natanz enrichment facilities as well as the Fordo underground plant. There is no information on what happened to the 20 percent-enriched uranium still remaining in Iran.
Another example is the lack of information on the Iran’s heavy water which is provisionally stored in Oman Who does it belong to and who oversees it?
These are just a few examples of the blanks in the promised oversight over Iran’s nuclear program, not to mention Iran's banned ballistic missile program which is geared to design missiles able to reach the US.
The Obama administration had based his detente with Tehran, capped by the nuclear deal, on producing a breakthrough in US-Iran relations. It was intended to strengthen the moderate, reformist and liberal political elements in Iran. But debkafile sources and Iranian experts report that the exact opposite happened, as is evident in two important elections held in Iran in the past two weeks.
In the elections to the Assembly of Experts, the body which chooses Iran’s top leader, the 91-year-old Ayatollah Ahmad Janati was elected. He is one of the most extreme hardliners in Iran.
A few days later, Ali Larijani was re-elected as Speaker of the Iranian Parliament. Larijani is close to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He won by a land slide over the reformist candidate put forward by President Hassan Rouhani.
Five months ago, when the first results of the Iranian elections to the Majlis and to the Assembly of Experts came in, there were cries of joys in the Obama administration. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Jawad Zarif proclaimed it at the time a victory for the moderates.
Where did these ‘moderates’ disappear in the interim and how did they become supporters of the extremists?
On Friday, June 3, less than 24 hours after Clinton’s foreign policy speech, Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khamenei celebrated his victory over American policy saying: Iran has many small and big enemies, but foremost among them are America and Britain. “Any cooperation with the US,” he stressed, “is an act against Iran’s independence.”