Why the Iran Deal Matters – Tablet Magazine
Nearly a decade after the selling of the Iran deal, it s much easier now for Americans to see that it was the origin point in a series of hugely consequential lies that have shaped our country at home as surely as they have shaped the lives of people in the Middle East. They lied about Obama s successor being a Russian spy to delegitimize the government and divide the country, in the hope of removing an elected president from office. They lied about an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, to justify designating one half of the country as domestic terrorists, in order to put their political opponents in jail. They ve lied about so many things because they re certain that their communications infrastructure where intelligence officers direct big tech and censor what was once America s independent press will shape the information space on their behalf, effectively controlling what we see, hear, and read. They first built their echo chamber to sell the idea that the Iran deal would stop Iran from getting a bomb; now the echo chamber is everywhere a high-tech version of how the press is run in countries like Egypt, or Iran.
Obama wanted to give Iran the bomb in the context of a larger realignment of U.S. interests with those of the Islamic Republic. If you ve seen any of the videos on social media of Hamas operatives dragging Jews out of their homes and shooting them, you can see what that means. Obama admired Hamas Iranian patron Qassem Soleimani, who ran Iran s expeditionary unit, the Quds Force, until the Trump administration killed him. Obama told Gulf Arab U.S. allies they should get their own Quds Force, but they didn t, which is partly why Obama downgraded relations with America s traditional Arab allies and moved Iran into the top slot. He wanted Iran s hard men and their terror assets to manage U.S. regional interests, so that the United States could leave the Middle East and pivot to Asia though as it turned out, China and its friends in Washington had their own ideas about American dominance there.
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