The mullahs' regime in Iran main cause of instability in the Middle East, world, the massacre of the Syrian people and the godfather International terrorism
BRUSSELS, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- When President Barack Obama leaves the White House later
this month, he will leave behind a shocking legacy of death and destruction in
the Middle East. His foreign policy vision, which saw the United States focus
on cooperation with Iran as its core strategy, has unlocked a Pandora's box of
conflict and sectarian strife across the zone.
Obama has now belatedly, during the closing days of his
administration, come to realize that the nuclear deal with Iran and his
concessions to that ruthless regime have in fact not only threatened the
security of the Middle East, but have even undermined the interests of the
United States. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Turkey have tried in vain to
prevent Iran's aggressive expansionism in the region, but they have been
repeatedly thwarted by U.S. empathy for the mullahs' regime. His failure to
back the Syrian opposition has allowed the bloody civil war in that country to
rage on into its seventh year, costing hundreds of thousands of lives and
sparking the huge migration crisis in Europe.
Following the nuclear deal, a sum of $150 billion of frozen
assets was released to Iran by the U.S. administration, providing a windfall
for the Tehran government, which was teetering on the brink of economic
collapse. But far from investing in its own people, the fascist mullah-led
regime used this money to redouble its spending on exporting terror through the
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Quds Force, both of which are listed
terrorist organizations in the West and are involved in almost every conflict in
the Middle East. As well as Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Yemen's
Houthi rebels, Iran funds and supplies Hezbollah in Lebanon and the brutal
Shi'ia militias in Iraq.
Demonstrating complete disdain for the West, the Iranian regime
has consistently breached the nuclear deal. Last March, two Qadr-H missiles
were fired in open defiance of a U.N. Security Council resolution tied to the
agreement. The missiles were chillingly marked with the phrase: "Israel
must be wiped out" and the test firing took place provocatively on the
same day that the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Israel. Last
August, Vladimir Putin, in a further flagrant signal of aggression to the West,
sent the first shipment of Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran.
But under Obama's misguided Middle East policy, his determined
efforts to do deals with the so-called "moderate" and
"smiling" Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have provided a green
light for Tehran's dogmatic expansionist policy. Rouhani is in fact in charge
of a venally corrupt government, which has executed around 3,000 people since
he took office in 2013. Ten have been hanged this year. Mass hangings are now
the order of the day; many are carried out in public, even in football stadiums.
But this should come as no surprise; in a further scandalous development it has
been revealed that the mass-murder by the regime in 1988 of over 30,000
political prisoners from the opposition People's Mojahedin of Iran was
supervised by Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, who has been appointed by Rouhani as his
justice minister.
Despite repeated warnings, Obama began his administration by
capitulating to Iranian demands to back the corrupt and murderous Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister in
Iraq. Maliki was a puppet of the mullahs, doing their bidding by opening a
direct route for Iranian troops and equipment heading to Syria to bolster the
murderous Assad regime. Iran's support for Maliki in Iraq and for Assad in
Syria, two corrupt dictators who repressed and brutalized their own people,
resulted in the rise of Daesh, also known as the Islamic State.Thanks to U.S. acquiescence over
Tehran, Daesh grew and became a threat to the whole world.
Obama compounded this grievous mistake by providing American
military support and air cover for the genocidal campaign being waged by
pro-Iranian Shi'ia militias in Iraq. Once again Iran exploited its role in
ousting Daesh as a means for implementing its ruthless policy of ethnic
cleansing to annihilate the Sunnis in Iraq's al-Anbar Province. Horrific
sectarian atrocities were committed during the so-called "liberation"
of the ancient cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. The Shi'ia militias, who formed
the main part of the force fighting to recapture these cities from Daesh and
are now engaged in the battle to recapture Mosul, are led by Gen. Qasem
Soleimani, commander of the Iranian terrorist Quds Force. Soleimani has also
played a key role in Syria and the massacre in Aleppo.
Tehran is relentlessly strengthening its grip over Iraq.
Corruption and poor training has rendered the Iraqi army almost useless,
leaving a vacuum, which the Iranian regime has been quick to fill, pressurizing
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi into allowing the Iranian-funded militias to
take control of military operations. Political disarray in Baghdad, combined
with Obama's directionless and dysfunctional American foreign policy, has paved
the way for Iran to consolidate its hold in Iraq.
President-elect Donald Trump will have the unenviable
task of trying to sort out Obama's Middle East mess. There are many people on
his team who believe that Iran is the main source of conflict in the Middle
East and as such, poses a greater threat to the West than North Korea or even Russia. It will be
interesting to see if Trump can slam the lid back down on the mullahs'
Pandora's box before the Iranian malignancy is allowed to metastasize.
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