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OBAMA VS. IRAN: 'CHAMBERLAIN ALL OVER AGAIN'
Tehran fires missiles, White House shrugs: 'If it weren't so dangerous, it would be funny
Greg Corombos
Iran has recently test-fired ballistic missiles and is treating last year’s nuclear deal as a joke, and retired U.S. Navy Capt. Chuck Nash says the Obama administration simply doesn’t care anymore.
Within the past few days, new revelations about Iran’s actions and the contents of the nuclear agreement have national security experts howling mad. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Iran had test-fired multiple ballistic missiles. While such missiles have little use except to carry warheads, the testing is permitted under the deal hammered out between Western nations and Iran last summer.
That news follows on the heels of Monday’s revelations that the deal prohibits the United Nations’ nuclear inspectors from publicly announcing any violations Iran has committed. That admission from the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, followed protests that its February reports on Iran’s activities offered little transparency.
Capt. Nash is an Iran expert. While not surprised at the apparent gaping loopholes in the enforcement mechanism of the nuclear deal, Nash told WND and Radio America it is further proof that the agreement doesn’t make anyone safer.
“The nuclear deal was only a deal for Iran. It was not a deal for any of the other participants,” said Nash, in reference to the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany, which all signed on to the agreement. The group is often referred to as the P5 Plus One.
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“Our verbiage and everything from that deal going forward is just a big joke,” he said. “If it weren’t so dangerous, it would be funny. We were just absolutely skunked. We went into it with the intention of getting a deal just to get a deal. Now we’re living with the fruits of that.”
Nash said the actions of Iran since the deal are also concrete evidence that it knows it fleeced the world at the negotiating table because everything the world has seen from Iran shows that its agenda is moving ahead at full speed.
“They have clearly not been humbled. They have won,” Nash said. “They held out and they got the P5 Plus One to give them exactly what they wanted to placate the politicians in the West so they could go back to their constituents and say peace is at hand.
“It’s Chamberlain all over again,” said Nash, alluding to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who assured his people Europe would be at peace after surrendering the Sudetenland to Adolf Hitler at talks in Munich in 1938. Hitler invaded Poland the next year.
Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Chuck Nash:
Not only has Iran been brazen in its missile testing, it also played an aggressive role in the detention of U.S. Navy personnel in January, forcing Americans to their knees at gunpoint and forcing one of the sailors to make a statement admitting blame for the incident.
That incensed Nash.
"The way you do that is you hail or contact the other vessel and you let them know they are entering waters," Nash said. "Then you make sure that they stay out. What they did to our sailors was they treated them as if they were bringing in a boatload of cocaine into Key West."
Nash is borderline speechless that the U.S. agreed to prevent the IAEA from publicly revealing any Iranian nuclear violations, especially after the Obama administration insisted that would not be the case.
"You can't make this stuff up. Nobody would believe it," he said. "Yet, that's what these great negotiators have signed. Of course, we're the only ones, in the West, who are going to abide by the agreement. The Iranians are not, and they have not since this thing was signed."
He said the bottom line is that the Obama administration is fine with the provision because it means it won't have to answer for the ineffectiveness of the deal.
"Even if we did find something wrong, we're not going to divulge it, not only the IAEA but the United States, because it would prove that the critics of this stupid deal were right all along and they will not do it," Nash explained. "They would rather hide that from the American people."
He said Iran has carte blanche in the Persian Gulf for now.
"They are not stopping doing what they are doing," Nash said. "They are setting out to be the regional hegemon in the Gulf, and that's it. Period. End of statement. And no piece of paper is going to stop them."
He said Obama got his deal and has no further plans to check Iranian ambitions.
"They got an Iran deal. That's in the wake. That's going to be listed as one of the great achievements of this administration. They're looking for a legacy," Nash said. "[Iran is] developing these missiles. They don't care what the U.N. says. They don't care what the U.S. says. Unfortunately, the U.S. doesn't care, either."
He said the development of the Iranian missile program is already an imminent threat to Israel.
"Just wait until the Iranians continue down the path and demonstrate the capability to not only develop a nuclear weapon, but to have the delivery system in place that can reach Israel," he said.
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