Saturday, October 25, 2014

Muslims Endorse Democrats

Iranian President's Right-Hand Man Endorses Democrats

10/24/2014, Investors’ Business Daily

 

Appeasement: "We may not have such an opportunity again," the top adviser to Iran's "moderate" president says of Democrats running the U.S. government. That's free advertising that the Democrats can do without.

 

Less than two weeks before Election Day, it couldn't have come at a worse time for Democrats. In a Farsi language interview with Iran's Fars News Agency, a translation of which the Washington Free Beacon got its hands on last week, Ali Younesi, senior adviser to ever-smiling Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, praised Democrat politicians for considering Islamofascist Iran to be "no threat."

 

"We have to use this opportunity," Younesi, formerly Iran's minister of intelligence, said of Democrats holding power in the White House and the Senate, "because if this opportunity is lost, in (the) future we may not have such an opportunity again."

 

One can imagine the Republican National Committee using Younesi's statement in 11th-hour TV ads on behalf of GOP Senate candidates in swing states.

 

Naive observers of Iranian affairs, many of whom are employed by our State Department, consider Rouhani a kind of Iranian Gorbachev (not to suggest that Gorbachev was a "Gorbachev," i.e., that man who freed Russia from communism).

 

But there wasn't very much of whatever the Islamist version of glasnost or perestroika might be in Younesi's remarks. "Obama is the weakest of U.S. presidents," he said, citing "humiliating defeats in the region" such as "the Islamic awakening" and an expansion of terrorism. Most tellingly, Younesi concludes of Obama's foreign policy failings: "That is why they want to compromise with Iran."

 

Younesi's eye-opening remarks come as Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs and chief U.S. nuclear negotiator, announced that a deal with Iran — one that undoubtedly will let Tehran keep the ability to build nuclear warheads — might happen before the Nov. 24 deadline. It is time, Sherman said Thursday, "to finish the job."

 

It's no secret what the obstacle to a deal is in Tehran's eyes: the free world's economic sanctions on the country. But President Obama has made it fairly plain he intends to make an end-run around Congress in repealing those sanctions should he get a nuclear pact.

 

Younesi has now told American voters which party is likelier to stop Obama from ignoring the Constitution's treaty-making constraints. And it's not the party he praises for viewing a nuclear Iran as "no threat."

 

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