The Muth of Iran's Peaceful Nuclear Program
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Last year Iran was selling gasoline for less than
50 cents a gallon. This year a desperate regime
hiked prices up to over a dollar. Meanwhile,
Iranians pay about a tenth of what Americans do for
electricity.
Unlike
Japan, Iran does not need nuclear power. It is
already sitting on a mountain of gas and oil.
Iran blew between $100 billion to $500 billion on
its nuclear program. The Bushehr reactor alone cost
somewhere in the neighborhood of $11 billion making
it one of the most expensive in the world.
This wasn’t done to cut power bills. Iran didn’t
take its economy to the edge for a peaceful nuclear
program. It built the Fordow fortified underground
nuclear reactor that even Obama admitted was not
part of a peaceful nuclear program, it built the
underground Natanz enrichment facility whose
construction at one point consumed all the cement in
the country, because the nuclear program mattered
more than anything else as a fulfillment of the
Islamic Revolution’s purpose.
Iran did not do all this so that its citizens could
pay 0.003 cents less for a kilowatt hour of
electricity.
It built its nuclear program on the words of the
Ayatollah Khomeini, “Islam makes it incumbent on all
adult males, provided they are not disabled or
incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the
conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of
Islam is obeyed in every country in the world.”
Iran’s constitution states that its military is an
“ideological army” built to fulfill “the ideological
mission of jihad in Allah's way; that is, extending
the sovereignty of Allah’s law throughout the
world.”
It quotes the Koranic verse urging Muslims to
“strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of
Allah”.
Article 3 of Iran’s Constitution calls for a foreign
policy based on “unsparing support” to terrorists
around the world. Article 11, the ISIS clause,
demands the political unity of the Islamic world.
Iran is not just a country. It is the Islamic
Revolution, the Shiite ISIS, a perpetual revolution
to destroy the non-Muslim world and unite the Muslim
world. Over half of Iran’s urban population lives
below the poverty line and its regime sacrificed
100,000 child soldiers as human shields in the
Iran-Iraq War.
Iran did not spend all that money just to build a
peaceful civilian nuclear program to benefit its
people. And yet the nuclear deal depends on the myth
that its nuclear program is peaceful.
Obama insisted, “This deal is not contingent on Iran
changing its behavior.” But if Iran isn’t changing
its behavior, if it isn’t changing its priorities or
its values, then there is no deal.
If Iran hasn’t changed its behavior, then the
nuclear deal is just another way for it to get the
bomb.
If Iran were really serious about abandoning a drive
for nuclear weapons, it would have shut down its
nuclear program. Not because America or Europe
demanded it, but because it made no economic sense.
For a fraction of the money it spent on its nuclear
ambitions, it could have overhauled its decaying
electrical grid and actually cut costs. But this
isn’t about electricity, it’s about nuclear bombs.
The peaceful nuclear program is a hoax. The deal
accepts the hoax. It assumes that Iran wants a
peaceful nuclear program. It even undertakes to
improve and protect Iran’s “peaceful” nuclear
technology.
The reasoning behind the nuclear deal is false. It’s
so blatantly false that the falseness has been
written into the deal. The agreement punts on the
military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program and
creates a complicated and easily subverted mechanism
for inspecting suspicious programs in Iranian
military sites.
It builds in so many loopholes and delays, separate
agreements and distractions, because it doesn’t
really want to know. The inspections were built to
help Iran cheat and give Obama plausible
deniability.
With or without the agreement, Iran is on the road
to a nuclear bomb. Sanctions closed some doors and
opened others. The agreement opens some doors and
closes others. It’s a tactical difference that moves
the crisis from one stalemate to another. Nothing
has been resolved. The underlying strategy is
Iran’s.
Iran
decided that the best way to conduct this stage of
its nuclear weapons program was by getting technical
assistance and sanctions relief from the West. This
agreement doesn’t even pretend to resolve the
problem of Iran’s nuclear weapons. Instead its best
case scenario assumes that years from now Iran won’t
want a nuclear bomb. So that’s why we’ll be helping
Iran move along the path to building one.
It’s like teaching a terrorist to use TNT for mining
purposes if he promises not to kill anyone.
But this agreement exists because the West refuses
to come to terms with what Islam is. Successful
negotiations depend on understanding what the other
side wants. Celebratory media coverage talks about
finding “common ground” with Iran. But what common
ground is there with a regime that believes that
America is the “Great Satan” and its number one
enemy?
What common ground can there be with people who
literally believe that you are the devil?
When Iranian leaders chant, “Death to America”, we
are told that they are pandering to the hardliners.
The possibility that they really believe it can’t be
discussed because then the nuclear deal falls apart.
For Europe, the nuclear agreement is about ending an
unprofitable standoff and doing business with Iran.
For Obama, it’s about rewriting history by
befriending another enemy of the United States. But
for Iran’s Supreme Leader, it’s about pursuing a
holy war against the enemies of his flavor of Islam.
The Supreme Leader of Iran already made it clear
that the war will continue until America is
destroyed. That may be the only common ground he has
with Obama. Both America and Iran are governed by
fanatics who believe that America is the source of
all evil. Both believe that it needs to be
destroyed.
Carter made the Islamic Revolution possible. Obama
is enabling its nuclear revolution.
Today Tehran and Washington D.C. are united by a
deep distrust of America, distaste for the West and
a violent hatred of Israel. This deal is the product
of that mutually incomprehensible unity. It is not
meant to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. It
is meant to stop America and Israel from stopping
it.
Both Obama and the Supreme Leader of Iran have a
compelling vision of the world as it should be and
don’t care about the consequences because they are
convinced that the absolute good of their ideology
makes a bad outcome inconceivable.
"O Allah, for your satisfaction, we sacrificed the
offspring of Islam and the revolution," a despairing
Ayatollah Khomeini wrote after the disastrous
Iran-Iraq War cost the lives of three-quarters of a
million Iranians. The letter quoted the need for
"atomic weapons" and evicting America from the
Persian Gulf.
Four years earlier, its current Supreme Leader had
told officials that Khomeini had reactivated Iran’s
nuclear program, vowing that it would prepare “for
the emergence of Imam Mehdi.”
The
Islamic Revolution’s nuclear program was never
peaceful. It was a murderous fanatic’s vision for
destroying the enemies of his ideology, rooted in
war, restarted in a conflict in which he used
children to detonate land mines, and meant for mass
murder on a terrible scale.
The nuclear agreement has holes big enough to drive
trucks through, but its biggest hole is the refusal
of its supporters to acknowledge the history,
ideology and agenda of Iran’s murderous tyrants.
Like so many previous efforts at appeasement, the
agreement assumes that Islam is a religion of peace.
The ideology and history of Iran’s Islamic
Revolution tells us that it is an empire of blood.
The agreement asks us to choose between two
possibilities. Either Iran has spent a huge fortune
and nearly gone to war to slightly lower its already
low electricity rates or it wants a nuclear bomb.
The deal assumes that Iran wants lower electricity
rates. Iran’s constitution tells us that it wants
Jihad. And unlike Obama, Iran’s leaders can be
trusted to live up to their Constitution.