Cheney Vindicated

Dick Cheney warned against trusting North Korea on nuclear weapons.

Israel Took Out Syrian Nuclear Base Circa 2007

Believe It or Not, Syria Could Be In Even Worse Shape

Syria is a bloody mess. Its cities lie in ruins. Its antiquities have been destroyed. And the Syrian leader continues to kill his own people. The death toll may be as high as a half million people. Some 10 million Syrians have been displaced. Reporters working there have described it as hell on earth and the images they've provided support their portrayal.

It's hard to imagine how things could be ghastlier. And yet, if not for a stealth nighttime attack a decade ago, the situation today would almost certainly have been worse. Syria might well have been a young nuclear power.

On Sept. 6, 2007, Israeli fighter jets screamed through the skies of western Syria to drop their payloads on the al-Kibar nuclear facility and end, at least temporarily, the secret nuclear program of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The buildings that housed Syria's budding nuclear efforts, unknown to the world, had been the focus of a mad, behind-the-scenes diplomatic scramble for several months, as the Israelis tried to enlist U.S. support for the pre-emptive strike.

Iran's Nuclear Side Deals

The case of Iran's purchase of 950 tons of weapons-grade uranium from Kazakhstan shows British (as opposed to Obama-era US) resistance to Iran and also that Obama lied to everyone about his deal with Iran.

There is also the related subject of military leader Qassem Soleimani, who heads Iran's Qods Force, tasked with leading Islamo-Arab imperialism.

The Myth of Rafsanjani

Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, a so-called Iranian moderate and pragmatist, died Sunday at 82.

"For a picture of the cleric, who served as president of Iran from 1989 to 1997, read these excerpts from pieces over the years by WEEKLY STANDARD contributing editor Reuel Marc Gerecht.


Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, … is in the West probably the most misunderstood cleric in the Islamic Republic. For the Europeans, and some in the Bush administration, Rafsanjani was the white-turbaned hope, the realpolitician-pragmatist who would save the West from a showdown over Iran's nuclear-weapons program. In reality, he is the true father of Iran's nuclear-bomb program, an overlord for the Iranian terrorism that struck Europe in the 1980s and '90s, and quite possibly one of the dark princes behind the domestic assassination campaign of Iranian liberals that began in the late 1990s. Concerning Israel, Rafsanjani has never given any indication that he differs with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a group Rafsanjani has always supported: Israelis are best when dead."

Obama Administration Loosens Nuclear Deal After Iran Violates It

The Iranians have openly cheated the nuclear deal, so the Obama administration will not penalize them.

"The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a recent report that Iran violated the nuclear deal by exceeding its limit for heavy water, a material used in the production of weapons-grade plutonium. The State Department would not call the incident a formal violation Wednesday, and told reporters Thursday that it did not see the 130-metric-ton threshold laid out in the nuclear deal as a hard, certain figure.
"If you look at the wording within the [nuclear deal], it actually says that Iran's needs, consistent with the parameters … are estimated to be 130 metric tons. State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. That's not a hard certain figure............
"After Iran exceeded the heavy water threshold in February, the Obama Administration bought thirty-two tons of Iranian heavy water for roughly $8.6 billion. The purchase ensured that the country remained in compliance with the nuclear deal."

So the Obama adminstration is openly covering for Iranian cheating on nuclear weapons.

Iran Myths Get Punctured Still

The myths that drove appeasing Iran keep collapsing.

Iran's Alliance With North Korea

Iran has been working with North Korea on nuclear weaponry - the late Christopher Hitchens noted how the Norks also worked with Saddam Hussein - and the West pretends otherwise.

Five Questions About Islamic Imperialism

Five questions that should be asked of the presidential candidates. We then add five more about nuclear deterrence and also note Barack Obama's refusal to tell the truth about Islamo-Arab Imperialism.

Iran Breaks Agreement Already

But Obama still thinks Iran's missile test doesn't mean they'll break the nuclear agreement. Meanwhile Victor Hanson looks at Obama's endless foreign policy errors including Iran - and damningly notes Vice President Biden's admission that Iraq was indeed stable before Obama abandoned it.

Charles Krauthammer On Obama's Iran Swindle

Charles Krauthammer lays out the swindle Obama lays out to help the Iranians in that it requires Western technical assistance to the enemy.

Cheney: Iran Deal Did Not Begin With Bush Administration

The Obama administration has taken a new tack in smearing to justify its appeasement of Iran.

No, Israeli Intelligence Opposes The Iran Deal

The myth is being pushed that Israeli Intelligence favors the Iran Deal - the fact is it doesn't.

Nuclear Inspections Farce Puts Democrats to the Test

That Democrats have started to turn against the Iran deal is a bad sign for Obama.

The Iran Deal’s Evaporating Logic

More and more Obama cannot defend appeasing the Iranians.

Enough with the Iran Deal ‘Most Intrusive Inspections’ Canard

Iran's inspections deal is sloppy and leaky.

Obama Tars Iran Deal Skeptics

Obama Tars Iran Deal Skeptics even though he can't factually defend his deal.

U.S. Backed Into Accepting Iran's Initial Bargaining Position

Some detail about how Obama sucked up to the Ayatollahs and deceived Congress in the process. The deceit continued with John Kerry's acknowledgement to Congress on July 28 that Obama will ignore the law if Congress blocks the Iran deal, something it seems certain to do.

Making Stuff Up To Defend Iran

John Kerry and Obama fabricate defenses of their Iranian deal and their subterfuges are becoming more clear.

Lessons for Iran from the Failed North Korean Nuclear Negotiations

Looking back at the failure of negotiating nonproliferation with North Korea and the lessons for the Iranian appeasement effort by Obama.

Mullahs’ Military Shopping List

Susan Rice of the administration actually thinks the Iranians will spend their new money on their people; they never do, they spend for war.