While for eleven days all eyes were on Gaza, America reportedly made significant gains in President Biden’s drive to revive the articles of appeasement with Iran. Opponents of that deal, struck in 2015 by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry, will turn now to Vienna, where hush-hush talks resume today.
The talks are designed to bring back from the dead the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. It was opposed by both houses of Congress at the time it was adopted by Mr. Obama, who got the United Nations Security Council to give it the ratification that Congress wouldn’t grant. President Trump withdrew from the deal.
Recent diplomacy at Vienna seems to have made what the Biden administration is likely to see as progress. That means that the regime in Tehran, which is constitutionally committed to jihad, is about to get wealthier. As the Islamic Republic’s president, Hasan Rouhani, said in a publicly-aired cabinet meeting Thursday, “the talks in Vienna are about minor issues.” more here
Biden is busy channeling his inner Neville Chamberlain. This will not end well, appeasement never works and always leads to conflict and war.
The ‘Spice’ must flow.