Monday, September 30, 2013

Iran's Dangerous Façade



by Dr. Reuven Berko



The American response to Iranian President Hasan Rouhani's visit to the United States was reminiscent of Roland Emmerich's 1996 film "Independence Day": Somewhere in the Pentagon, data analysts were monitoring Iranian chatter about the destruction of Israel, the return of the Shiite Mahdi and the Iranian takeover of the world, but they understood none of it. Then the UFOs arrived at major cities worldwide, including New York.

U.S. President Barack Obama's people anxiously awaited the Iranian "aliens'" arrival at the U.N. When the Iranian flying saucers landed in New York, the transmissions surprisingly changed: Rouhani acknowledged the Holocaust and called for world peace and global cooperation. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, echoed with a doctrine of "heroic flexibility" featuring all the right words -- without changing anything on the ground, of course -- and a fatwa [religious decree] was issued in his name barring the development or use of nuclear weapons.

And so, the declarations of war have turned in messages of peace. Iran, which is not under threat by any nations, is accumulating nuclear weapons "for defense purposed only"; Iran, which seeks to obliterate Israel "acknowledges the Holocaust"; Iran, where a member of the Supreme National Security Council recently explained that improving the country's relations with the U.S. would "break the back of the Zionist regime and the reactionary regimes in the Middle East" has suddenly changed.

Soon after the Iranian president made his speech, long-range missiles slowly made their way through Tehran's streets in a military parade, featuring slogans reading: "Death to Israel." Rouhani, who attended the parade, stated that Iran has never instigated war or any other military conflict. The world has a short memory: Iran led a murderous war on Iraq, Iranian combatants are butchering Syrian civilians, Iran is supplying funding, weapons and training to Hezbollah, and Iranian intelligence is feeding information to terror and espionage rings the world over. But Iran has "changed."

The Iranian "aliens" employ the principle of "taqiyya" -- a Shia code which is a form of religious dispensation allowing a false worshiper to impersonate his enemy to eliminate him. As Obama is wary of acting on his threat against even a crushed nation like Syria, the Iranians have realized that there is no chance that he would target them.

The Middle East has been abandoned and Obama is now seen as a paper tiger. The timing allowed the Iranians to rush to the U.N. armed with their "conceptual flexibility" -- the famous Shiite taqiyya -- while hiding nuclear bombs in the basement. The Iranian "aliens" have found in Obama the lever needed to lift the sanctions crippling their economy and plan to use their "conceptual flexibility" to the breach the economic siege.

The Iranians, who have depicted apocalyptic visions of Shia, the Mahdi and the elimination of Israel, will not shelve their nuclear weapons after investing such considerable resources in developing them, losing scientists under peculiar circumstances, weathering cyberattacks and suffering through financial sanctions. The nation that plotted to take over Arab oil, to conquer the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf, to overrun the Middle East and afterwards the world -- that nation is not going to stop simply because Obama is charming or Rouhani graced the U.N.'s podium.

The sanctions imposed on Iran must remain in place pending the complete removal of its nuclear potential. Sanctions are the result of momentum, perseverance and accumulated damage to one's opponent and once they are suspended they will be hard to renew.


Dr. Reuven Berko

Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=5833

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