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By Ken Abramowitz, President & Founder, SaveTheWest
See the sources for this article and more research in the Additional Reading section.
The Trump administration has publicly stated that the goal of its “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran is to increase sanctions until its rulers come to the negotiating table.
What can be accomplished if and when U.S.-Iranian negotiations get under way? What are the chances of success, when democracies negotiate with dictatorships, and in particular a dictatorship that is the #1 Islamist terror-sponsoring nation in the world?
It is worth recalling how many times Winston Churchill publicly warned his fellow Britons of the logical outcome of Nazi Germany’s rush to build the world’s largest offensive military machine, which was all in violation of the terms of its surrender, under the Versailles Treaty. Churchill warned that ignoring this threat, and seeking to negotiate with Hitler, not only would not avoid war, it would make it more likely – because the Nazi dictator had no intention or history of honoring any of his prior agreements, and this appeasement was merely buying the National Socialists more time to build, and complete, their war machine. Here is one of Churchill’s speeches, from 1934, in which he said, in effect, all of the above:
Churchill was dismissed as a “warmonger,” just as Ambassador John Bolton was, until he resigned from/was ejected from his role as President Trump’s National Security Adviser.
As with any negotiation, the U.S. can win, lose, or tie. The U.S. would aim to tie, as is common within Western civilization, which entails compromise by both sides. Unfortunately, the mullahs who rule Iran do not share this Western philosophy. Their goal is to unconditionally defeat the U.S. Recall that at the same time they were “negotiating” the nuclear “deal” with President Obama, Iran’s “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Khamenei was leading public chants of, “Death To America!!!”
So it is for the U.S. to determine the outcome of this negotiation.
If we simply focus on re-negotiating the JCPOA (the Iran nuclear “deal”), maybe inspections will be tightened, and maybe the 10-year sunset clause (after which the mullahs will be free to build all the nuclear weapons they want, “legally”) will be extended to 15-20 years, and maybe intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to carry nuclear weapons will be included — for the first time.
This outcome might be portrayed as a victory, but will still give Iran plenty of time, money, and ability to cheat, just as we recently discovered they have been, since they “agreed” to the JCPOA. And, as we also recently discovered, the mullahs have been relentlessly working to obtain the material necessary to build nuclear weapons, including from Germany the U.S., JCPOA signatory nations.
The deal would still grant Iran the right to have nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, eventually, which would, over time become an existential threat to the US. In other words, Iran would win.
However, if the US insists on winning, it should insist that Iran meets the State Department’s 12 conditions for normalizing relations with the US.
Iran would be forced to make more concessions. In particular, it would also have to dismantle its worldwide terror organizations, cells and operatives, which are engaged in physical terror, narco terror, and cultural terror. For example, Iran would also have to close its 17 al-Mustafa universities in Africa, and its 80 “cultural centers” in Latin America. Iran would also have to apologize to the U.S. and Israel for preaching genocide against each country — and for its proven role in aiding Al Qaeda to perpetrate the 9/11 attacks. Thus, Iran would have to drop its imperialistic designs, and stay within its own borders.
Iran would only agree to this losing deal for them if they were convinced that the U.S. military will be unleashed, both to retaliate for the thousands of Americans and U.S. soldiers killed & maimed by Iran, and to prevent the mullahs who ordered it all from ever acquiring nuclear weapons.
Without the definite determination to win, the Trump administration will most likely seek to tie, which will lead to a U.S. defeat.
We must all hope that the Trump administration does not seek an early tie, but has the determination and patience to do whatever it takes to win.
The future of the U.S. and Western civilization depends on it.
Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Won’t Make Iran Yield – International Crisis Group
VIDEO: The THREAT FROM NAZI GERMANY – 1934 speech by Winston Churchill
Evidence that Iran Violated the Nuclear Deal Since Day One? – Gatesteone Institute
Iran Caught Smuggling Nuke Materials Out of U.S. – Washington Free Beacon
SHOCK REPORT: Obama Hid 470,000 Documents From Bin Laden Raid To Ensure His Reelection – Daily Wire
Iran Nuclear Deal’s Sunset Provisions Begin Expiring in 2020 – United Against Nuclear Iran
U.S. Lays Out Demands for New Iran Deal – Wall St. Journal
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