Pat Buchanan sees Iran’s supreme leader as shrewd ‘revolutionary in name only’
Is the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, a RINO – a revolutionary in name only?
So they must be muttering around the barracks of the Iranian Republican Guard Corps today.
For while American hawks are saying we gave away the store to Tehran, consider what ayatollah agreed to.
Last week, he gave his blessing to the return of 10 U.S. sailors who intruded into Iranian waters within hours of capture. He turned loose four Americans convicted of spying. And he gave final approval to a nuclear deal that is a national humiliation.
Ordered by the U.S. and U.N. Security Council to prove Iran was not lying when it said it had no nuclear weapons program – an assertion supported by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies “with high confidence” in 2007 – the ayatollah had to submit to the following demands:
Decommission 12,000 Iranian centrifuges, including all the advanced ones at Fordow, ship out of the country 98 percent of its enriched uranium, remove the core of its heavy-water reactor in Arak and fill it with concrete, and allow U.N. inspectors to crawl all over Iran’s nuclear facilities for years to come.
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