Iran's New Moderate Cleric Not A Moderate, Will Lose Anyway (Plus: Even The French Are Laughing At Obama's Idiotic Iran Policy)
Meryl has an interview up demonstrating that Mehdi Karroubi - the media's new moderate Iranian cleric - is exactly as moderate as all the other MSM-sanctified Iranian moderates. Not that it'll matter:
The failure of reformists to form a united front increases Ahmadinejad's chances of being re-elected, although the president is under fire for Iran's high inflation, which has hurt many of his core support-base amongst the provincial poor. It was not yet clear whether Ahmadinejad would obtain unanimous support of the conservative faction or if neo-conservatives would name their own candidate, as they did in the March parliamentary elections. Ahmadinejad is also said to enjoy the support of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who, according to the constitution, has the final say in all state affairs. But some of the ayatollah's advisers, including former foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati, have openly criticized the president's policies.
Well as long as "some of the ayatollah's advisers" are willing to distance themselves from a genocidal lunatic who takes orders from an invisible prophet on how to ignite a global nuclear apocalypse - well then no worries, yeah? Which is a relief, because leading US nonproliferation experts now say Iran could have 60 nukes in the next two years and even the French think that negotiations won't work:
Barack Obama can talk about negotiating with Iran until he’s blue in the face, but a top French official who has been there and done that contends that any efforts by a future president to open direct talks with Iran would be a waste of time. "Good luck" is the advice that Therese Delpech would offer to the next U.S. president if he wanted to negotiate with the Tehran regime. “We’ve been negotiating with the Iranians since 2003, five years,” the nuclear adviser to French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Newsmax during a visit to Washington. "We came to the conclusion that they are not interested at all in negotiating, but in buying time for their military (nuclear) program."... But such talks would be a fool’s errand, Delpech said in a scarcely veiled reference to the Democrat.
Anyone with a brain has known for years - as a matter of near-mathematical certainty - that Iran is not interested in negotiating. But foreign policy experts insisted again and again - and always for a new reason - that anti-Ahmadinejad clerics were about to take control of negotiations. Which was repeatedly proven to be exact opposite of true, but hey - why let facts get in the way of faux sophistication?
References:
* Iran’s “reformist” candidate: More of the same [Yourish]
* Idiots [MR]
* Iranian presidential candidate: Ahmadinejad`s Holocaust comments are `irrelevant` [Ha'aretz]
* Iran: Tehran could make 60 nuclear bombs in two years, says US expert [AKI]
* French Official Scoffs at Idea of Negotiating With Iran [Newsmax]
* Mathematical Proof That Negotiating With Iran Is Stupid. Not Wrong. Stupid. [MR]
* Iran Misses Memo About How Sunnis And Shiites Don't Cooperate, Gives Syria Cutting Edge Offensive Missiles (Plus: Expert Sophistication Wrong On Iranian Nuclearization. Again) [MR]
* Iran’s establishment turns on Ahmadinejad — thanks to the NIE? [Hot Air]
* "Unprecedented" Power Grab By Iranian Ultra-Hardliners Casts Doubt On "Pragmatists Are Winning" Liberal Sophistication [MR]
* Super! Iran's New Nuclear Negotiator Dedicated To Bringing About The End Of The World. Yes, Really. [MR]
Previously:
* Israeli Military Intel: Iran "Halfway" Toward Nuclear Weapon (Plus: Syria, Hezbollah, And Hamas All The Way Toward Every Other Kind Of Weapon)
* Iran Producing Its Own Nuclear Fuel (Plus: Obama Would Meet With Iran, Give Them Security Guarantees, Etc)
* Bill Richardson: Ahmadinejad Is Nothing To Worry About, We Should Engage Iran
