I've been seeing a number of articles on this the past month or so, but the noise is getting louder: Biden is selling us out to the Iranians
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doubling down
Biden brought back the same negotiators who failed us during the Obama era (see,, eg, White House strategist Ben Rhodes’ infamous comment on how they pulled the wool over the hapless White House press corps:
“In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters,” {New Yorker writer] Samuels wrote.
“We created an echo chamber,” he quoted Rhodes as admitting. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns,” Rhodes was quoted as telling him. “They literally know nothing.”
You can’t say we aren’t being warned:
PowerLine:
As we noted yesterday, President Biden’s friends in the Putin regime have helped the United States fashion a devastating new agreement with the mullahs of Iran. Biden has found Putin’s servants to be quite helpful treating with the Iranian regime in Vienna. Biden would have us believe that they have helped him arrive at an agreement that serves the national security interests of the United States. He must think that we are all as far gone as he is.
The Wall Street Journal’s Laurence Norman reports (behind the WSJ paywall) in “Iran, U.S. Close to Reviving Iranian Nuclear Deal.” Subhead: “Talks advance in Vienna while U.N. atomic agency reports Iran has almost enough near-weapons-grade nuclear fuel for a bomb.” The Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo reports in “Russians Announce US-Iran Deal as Tanks Roll Across Europe.” Emanuele Ottolenghi comments in the Tablet column “Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia.” Subhead: “Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest.”
Some former State Department negotiators are horrified:
2. “What’s happening in Vienna is a total disaster” one warned. The entire negotiations have been filtered and “essentially run” by Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov. The concessions and other misguided policies have led three members of the U.S. negotiating team to leave.
3. This is a long and technical thread, but here’s what you should know: the deal being negotiated in Vienna is dangerous to our national security, it is illegal, it is illegitimate, and it in no way serves U.S. interests in either the short or long term.
It all goes down and gets finalized on Monday, apparently, but it’s already a done deal: Joe left the White Housse to go back home for the weekend hours ago.
