Congress is apparently doing everything in its power to kill any agreement reached between the US and Iran, and with the Obama administration now entering into a “compromise” with congressional hawks on the matter, prospects for a final deal are looking pretty slim. The Senate bill, approved yesterday, seems to have been passed pretty much at the behest of AIPAC, and one Israeli official, Yuval Steinitz, has even come out and called it “an achievement for Israeli policy.”
The Iran nuclear discussions have been a charade, little more than “a bad b-movie,” as Ken O’Keefe calls them in the above interview. “See? We offered the Iranians a good deal and they turned it down”–what are the chances we’ll be hearing words of that sort used as a justification for an attack upon Iran at some point in the near future? You have to give the Israeli lobby credit for persistence. They’ve been trying to get this war started for the past ten years or so. What are the odds they’ll finally succeed? And what of Iran’s acquisition (after a five year delay!) of the Russian S-300 anti-missile system? How will that factor into the war makers’ plans? I guess time will tell.
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