And The Upside?
"There was no human rights agenda in the negotiations at all, not from the beginning It gives the regime a green light to get away with murder. To Iranian pro-democracy activists it looks like nobody cares, that the world doesn't care at all."
"In Canada, sure, if you talk to people who are sympathetic to the regime, they think it's great."
"When the sanctions are lifted this agreement will allow the regime to spend more money on terrorism and the repression of the people."
Sayeh Hassan, Toronto lawyer, Iranian pro-democracy activist
"The deal with world powers does not address Iran's terrorist activities in the region, carried out by its proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen."
"Iran is almost certainly going to use the newly available cash and bolstered economy to prop up its proxies and try to assert its hegemony in the region, causing more conflict and bloodshed."
Syrian National Council spokesman
"Now Iran is out of the cage and will become a regional tiger."
"[The lifting of sanctions will flood up to $150-billion into Khomeinist treasuries] which will reach our enemies at our borders."
Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog
"This deal provides greater security for our allies in the region, and brings the world closer to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament."
NDP foreign policy critic Paul Dewar, Ottawa
The ten-year road map legitimizes the Islamic Republic of Iran's relentless journey toward nuclear arms. A country whose oil product has earned it hundreds of billions in illegal sales to Asian countries during the sanction period, will have that hundred billion released to it from Asian sources with the relaxation of sanctions, quite separate and apart from its investments being released from Western sources to enable Iran to get on with its agenda of destabilization for the region.
The West, which is congratulating itself for having 'solved' a seemingly insolvable problem for which no solution seemed to present itself until it slowly was ground down by Iranian skills in the art of 'diplomacy' and casuistry to relent on all its demands, and surrender to the Islamic Republic of Iran's demands out of Tehran that its sovereign rights to nuclear technology for peaceful means be blessed, will eventually have to deal with a megalomaniac mullahs' ownership of nuclear weapons.
By then the ultimate solution will be a nightmare so ghoulishly destructive that hand-wringing will accomplish nothing and a war to truly end all wars may well erupt. Iran with a sanctions-free economy along with an intercontinental ballistic missile program and its hands free to continue on with its thuggish internal politics and the barbarism of its sectarian conflicts in the Middle East, is a prospect too dreadful to contemplate, so Europe will not think too deeply about it, while America's current administration will be but a bleak memory.
Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force commanders who prosecute the ayatollahs' agendas have had their hands untied.
Labels: Capitulation, Conflict, Iran, Middle East, Negotiations, Nuclear Technology, P5+1, Sanctions, United States
posted by Pieface @ Friday, July 17, 2015
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