Spring of freedom

Iran's clandestine nuclear program The world powers and Iranian regime signed an accord on July 14, 2015, to put an end to more than a decade of tensions between western powers and Tehran over the mullahs’ clandestine nuclear program. The agreement, dubbed by some of its proponents as somewhat a historic deal, was to control and regulate the Iranian regime’s plans to become a nuclear power in return to yet to be fully disclosed rewards and incentives. The Obama administration and its former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry, the front line negotiator, made this agreement center focus of their Middle East policy by giving Iran even more concessions and leeway in the region. They literally viewed the deal as their legacy. However, as time passed and the public relations campaign and euphemism subsided, sober realities revealed a different picture about not only the deal, but also the parties involved. This particularly included the true intention of te Iranian regime for go...

The distance Europe is going, aiming to preserve the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, can be described as shameless. While disturbing to admit, it is a stark reminder of how British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain fell to Hitler’s knees in the late 1930s, only to pave the path for World War II. One would think the Green Continent would have learned its lesson, especially after the death of over 60 million people. Unfortunately, Europe’s policy vis-à-vis the Iranian regime is mirroring the shame witnessed 80 years ago. Appeasement and short-term economic interests are blinding Europe to the extent that senior officials are neglecting the very dangerous security terrorist threats posed by Iran’s regime, being the number one state sponsor of terrorism. Denying reality While the United States re-imposed crippling oil/banking/ shipping sanctions against Iran  on November 5, and considering the exodus of international firms pulling out of Iran, the Europeans are relentlessly preser...

By Reza Shafiee After months of speculations, finally President Donald  Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal  formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The deal was struck by his predecessor President Obama who went out his way to sweeten the deal for the regime in Iran hoping that its rulers may eventually come around and stop their destabilizing behavior in the region, not to proliferate long-range ballistic missiles and end human rights violations at home. None of that happened. Lack of transparency in the deal from day one raised many eyebrows. No one really knows how much money was offered to the regime in exchange. The figures are anywhere from $50 to $150 billion. Sadly not a dime of the money gained from the deal was spent to make life easier for average citizens. Instead it was generously wasted on wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Iran’s clerical regime did everything possible to prop up its puppet Bashar al-Assad in...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel   President Donald Trump will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of two European leaders heading to Washington as he mulls the fate of the nuclear deal with Iran. Their April 27 meeting follows French President Emmanuel Macron’s stop in the U.S. capital. The agreement’s future may depend on the success of last-minute European interventions with Trump. Macron and Merkel will likely be the last foreign leaders invested in the deal to see Trump before his deadline for the 2015 deal to be strengthened. Trump’s pledged to withdraw by May 12 unless U.S., British, French and German negotiators can agree to fix what he sees as the deal’s serious flaws. Iran has said a U.S. withdrawal and reimposed sanctions would destroy the pact, and has threatened to restart banned nuclear activities.

A Ghadr-H missile, center, a Sejjil missile and a portrait of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are on display for the annual Defense Week Iran tried to obtain illicit technology that could be used for military nuclear and ballistic missile programs, raising questions about a possible violation of the 2015 agreement intended to stop Tehran’s drive to become an atomic armed power, according to three German intelligence reports obtained by Fox News. The new intelligence, detailing reports from September and October and disclosed just ahead of President Trump’s planned announcement Thursday on whether the U.S. will recertify the Iran deal, reveals that Iran’s regime made “32 procurement attempts … that definitely or with high likelihood were undertaken for the benefit of proliferation programs.” According to the document, the 32 attempts took place in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The report lists Iran as a nation that engages in proliferati...

The Trump White House has been a  purveyor  of very well-founded criticism of the 2015 Iran  nuclear deal , formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Countering the narrative about the agreement curtailing progress toward a nuclear weapon, administration officials  contend that the JCPOA actually paves Iran’s way toward becoming a nuclear power. But this is not the sole or even the primary focus of the criticism, nor should it be. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley have instead focused on the broader intentions behind the JCPOA, as outlined in its preamble, which  states  that the signatories “anticipate that full implementation of this JCPOA will positively contribute to regional and international peace and security.” Nearly 22 months after the deal was implemented, this has not come to pass. Quite the contrary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has only been emboldened in  areas  far b...