{"id":20928,"date":"2013-11-08T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20928"},"modified":"2013-11-08T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:35:50","slug":"giving-away-the-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20928","title":{"rendered":"Giving Away The Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major threats to world peace is the acquisition of nuclear weapons by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=35.6833333333,51.4166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=35.6833333333,51.4166666667 (Iran)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Iran<\/a>. Because of that threat, most of the world has agreed to impose economic <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sanctions against Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanctions_against_Iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">sanctions against Iran<\/a> until Iran abandons <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nuclear program of Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_program_of_Iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">its nuclear program<\/a>. Unfortunately, Iran is not likely to do that.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/11\/08\/exclusive-obama-s-secret-iran-d-tente.html\">Daily Beast<\/a> posted a story revealing that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama administration<\/a> began softening sanctions on Iran after the election of Iran\u2019s new president in June.<\/p>\n<p>As I quoted in an article posted on June 17th (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19254\">rightwinggranny.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Ultimate power in Iran rests in any case with Mr. <a title=\"Ali Khamenei\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ali_Khamenei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Khamenei<\/a> and his fellow clerics, who are backed by the <a title=\"Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Army_of_the_Guardians_of_the_Islamic_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a>, which has expanded its control over business and other parts of society in recent decades. Iran today is best understood as a Shite fascist state with a democratic electoral veneer and ambitions to dominate the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lifting the sanctions on Iran will most surely result in a nuclear Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The article at the Daily Beast reports:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A review of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of the Treasury\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8983333333,-77.0341666667&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8983333333,-77.0341666667 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20the%20Treasury)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Treasury Department<\/a> notices reveals that the U.S. government has all but stopped the financial blacklisting of entities and people that help Iran evade international sanctions\u00a0since the election of its president, Hassan Rouhani, in June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><strong>On Wednesday <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/barack_obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">Obama<\/a> said in <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/11\/07\/21352724-exclusive-obama-personally-apologizes-for-americans-losing-health-coverage?lite\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with NBC News<\/a> the negotiations in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Geneva\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=46.2,6.15&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=46.2,6.15 (Geneva)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Geneva<\/a> \u201care not about easing sanctions.\u201d \u201cThe negotiations taking place are about how Iran begins to meet its international obligations and provide assurances not just to us but to the entire world,\u201d the president said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The article goes on to explain the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama Administration&#8217;s<\/a> justification for loosening the sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The thing we need to remember about Iran is that ultimately the clerics control Iran. No one gets to be <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President<\/a> of the country unless he has shown loyalty to the clerics and the clerics approve. There was an election, but the government of Iran has not changed. The goal of the leaders of Iran is still a world-wide caliphate. We need to consider that fact when we deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=3c22f8e4-d9c2-4561-b45e-2de8270aa160\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major threats to world peace is the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran. Because of that threat, most of the world has agreed to impose economic sanctions against Iran until Iran abandons its nuclear program. Unfortunately, Iran &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20928\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[481,6008,246,966,4079,135],"class_list":["post-20928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-daily-beast","tag-geneva","tag-iran","tag-irans-nuclear-program","tag-nbc-news","tag-obama-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20929,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions\/20929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}