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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