Iran: What's The Price Of Saving The Iran Deal?

How the Iran deal is empowering America's enemies

In an attempt to preventthe Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) 

from falling apart, U.S. President Barack Obama continues to pursue the failed policy of appeasement and giving concessions to the Iranian regime.  The latest round includes the easing of financial restrictions against sanctioned entities such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and paying a hefty ransom to free Americans held hostage by Iran

In the past month alone, U.S. ships off the coast of Yemen were attacked on several occasions by Houthis, 

a rebel group backed, funded, and trained by the Iranian regime.  Now, thanks to the easing of sanctions, Tehran will be even better positioned to further funnel cash and weapons to the Houthis and its other terrorist proxies in Iraq and Lebanon – many of which have a known history ofattacking and murdering U.S. troops – and to further aid the regime of Bashar al-Assad in slaughtering the

people of Syria.

There are two main lessons to be drawn from the continued failed policy of the Obama administration toward Iran.

First, moderation under the clerical regime in Iran is a total myth.  In fact, the same figures who are now in key positions under Rouhani's "moderate" cabinet have been endemically involved in the Iranian regime's crimes in the past three centuries.

Two stark examples are Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohamadi, who played a pivotal role in the 1988 massacre of thirty thousand political prisoners by the regime, and Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan, who was one of the founding members of Hezb'allah's military wing and one of the masterminds behind the1983 bombing of U.S. Marines barracks in Lebanon.

Second, the siloed approach toward Iran's nefarious activities must be abandoned for a holistic one.  Ignoring Iran's terrorism and human rights violations for the sake of keeping the lid on its nuclear ambitions will only make things worse and result in further plunging the region into mayhem and chaos.  Ironically, this is against the initial goal of the nuclear negotiations, which was to establish global security and stability.