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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