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Trust Iran but Don’t Verify
The U.S. frets about secret nuclear activity but keeps negotiating.
The Editorial Board
President Ebrahim Raisi (2-R) accompanied by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami (R) attending an event during the "Nuclear Technology Day" in the capital Tehran on April 9.
Talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal paused last month, and it isn’t clear whether they’ll resume or officially end. A little-noticed line in a State Department report published last week makes a good case for formally walking away.
“The United States has concluded that serious concerns remained outstanding regarding possible undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran,” according to State’s annual report on compliance with arms control and nonproliferation agreements. The document notes that the Islamic Republic has not fully cooperated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is trying to investigate possible secret nuclear activity at four sites around the country.
Four years ago Donald Trump left the 2015 accord—which provided Tehran billions in sanctions relief for temporary limits on nuclear activity—and pursued a “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign. President Biden has eased some sanctions and promised more relief. Yet now talks reportedly have stalled over whether the U.S. will lift the terrorist designation for the Iranian terrorist group known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
But Iran’s refusal to cooperate with the IAEA on the suspect sites is the best signal that renewing the deal is misguided. How can the U.S. negotiate a return to a nuclear deal if it can’t verify all of Iran’s nuclear activity? The IAEA is trying to resolve its differences with Tehran, but even if it does the country’s long history of nuclear deception foretells the future. Iran was blocking inspections at military sites even when it was still adhering to the 2015 deal.
The State Department report also concludes that while “Iran is not currently engaged in key activities associated with the design and development of a nuclear weapon,” it continues “to expand its uranium enrichment activities and stocks of enriched uranium, key factors in the amount of time it would require to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon.”
In other words, Washington doesn’t know the extent of Iran’s nuclear activity, but it knows enough to think Tehran isn’t building a weapon—at least not yet. Oh, and the regime is preparing to build a weapon faster if it does build one.
Western officials began saying in December that reviving the 2015 deal would become pointless within “weeks” amid Iranian nuclear advances. Weeks have come and gone. There are many reasons for the White House to walk away from talks with Iran, but the lack of meaningful verification is at the top of the list.
And:
Media's Eyes Wide Shut: Iran's 'Hidden' Hand Behind Palestinian Violence Atop Temple Mount
Are global media outlets complicit in obfuscating the true root causes of ongoing unrest at holy sites in Jerusalem?
Indeed, news organizations are repeating the same mistakes they made ahead of the May 2021 Hamas-initiated conflict with Israel by failing to connect the dots between Palestinian violence and Iran's, destabilizing efforts in the region.
April 29: Quds Day
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth Stepping Down, But Remaining Israel-Bashers Stand to Carry on Legacy
Ken Roth, the executive director of frequent Israel critic Human Rights Watch, is stepping down from his post. But even with Roth no longer leading HRW, it seems unlikely that the organization's entrenched animosity toward Israel will fade.
Promoting anti-Israel libels
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Patriot:
I can define “Woman”
By Elizabeth Kreiselmaier
War is raging, but it's not just the one in Ukraine. The radical left prefers you stay focused on Ukraine, so you won't notice the war they have waged here at home.
The War on Women.
If they’re not teaching our children in elementary schools about their gender identity, they’re busy forcing young girls and women, who have worked so hard to take their place in women’s sports, to compete against biological men.
Women have been sacrificed and told “too bad,” in order to serve the appetite of the “woke” mob and I hear nothing but crickets from the mainstream media who once proclaimed to be advocates of women.
How can you claim to champion women while at the same time devaluing them?
This insidious transgender “movement” is an assault on women’s rights and Democrats do not care about the safety of our girls and women. In Washington state they just voted for SB1956 which allows one’s biological sex or gender identity in women’s prisons to remain classified. Biologically male inmates, who still have their male body parts are allowed to be housed with women. Some female inmates have already been raped or impregnated. I recently testified in strong opposition to this bill.
This transgender movement is widespread throughout the country under Biden, Kilmer and the Democrats. We now have a Supreme Court Justice, a woman, who can’t, or won’t, define the word “woman,” a society that encourages girls to ignore their Biblical significance and identity, to be careless with their bodies, and celebrate abortions.
There is more to being a woman than just saying you are a woman, but the left doesn’t want to follow the science, even though it doesn’t take an M.D. to know there are fundamental, biological differences between men and women.
Liberals DO NOT CARE.
CoachI ask you, sincerely, if we don’t advocate for our girls then WHO WILL?
We have an obligation to stand up and defend these women and girls. We must do it fiercely and unapologetically. We are being steamrolled.
We need to speak up and say definitively:
You are NOT going to hijack women’s sports,
You are NOT going to teach our daughters any sexual content,
You are NOT going to devalue the worth of our daughters,
You are not going to minimize the importance of being a woman, and
You are not going to teach our children, of any gender, to do anything other than love and respect our country.
Biden and Kilmer don't want you to defend your daughter, but instead are working with TSA to spend MILLIONS of your dollars on “gender neutral” security scanning machines and “gender X” options on your passport.
Our girls are counting on US and now I’m counting on YOU to put me in Congress to save our girls from the radical left’s dangerous policies.
Join my team - America First.
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Russia’s Energy Extortion of Poland and Bulgaria
With more U.S. help for Europe, the ploy could boomerang on Vladimir Putin.
By The Editorial Board
An attack on one NATO ally is an attack on all, and that’s how Europe and the U.S. should treat Russia’s decision this week to stop supplying natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria. With enough allied coordination, this could boomerang on Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin is extorting Europe by demanding that “unfriendly” countries pay for gas in rubles rather than euros or dollars as required under their Gazprom contracts. European companies have been ordered to set up two accounts at Gazprombank to enable the currency conversion. Countries that refuse, as Bulgaria and Poland have, risk a gas cutoff.
“The request from the Russian side to pay in rubles is a unilateral decision and not according to the contracts,” says European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “Companies with such contracts should not accede to the Russian demands. This would be a breach of the Russian sanctions.” Mr. Putin hopes to erode Western sanctions, boost the ruble and divide Europe.
This may be a tactical blunder. Europe can’t replace the 40% or so of its gas that it imports from Russia overnight. But Mr. Putin’s extortion should harden Europe’s resolve to reduce its dependence on Russian fuel. Poland shows it can be done sooner than many think.
The Poles saw how Mr. Putin had repeatedly weaponized natural gas against Ukraine and prepared by building a large liquefied natural gas import terminal on the Baltic Sea. Next week Poland plans to open a pipeline linked to Lithuania’s LNG terminal. Another pipeline delivering gas from Norway to Poland is expected to be completed this fall.
Poland says it had planned to let its Gazprom contract expire later this year anyway. Other countries are more vulnerable to Mr. Putin’s blackmail but they have some short-term alternatives. Bulgaria imports some 90% of its gas from Russia but can get more from Turkey and Greece in a pinch. Italy has secured a deal to import more gas from Algeria.
Germany has scrambled to reduce its dependence on Russian gas, which now accounts for 35% of imports, down from 55% last year. Lucky for Germany, wind power is strong in the spring, and power plants can switch to burning coal. Mr. Putin’s ploy is a prod to Chancellor Olaf Scholz to cancel the retirement of Germany’s last remaining nuclear plants this year.
Mr. Putin wants to raise the costs to Europe for arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia. Wholesale gas prices in Europe rose 20% Wednesday morning and are more than six times higher than a year ago. If Mr. Putin cuts off gas to other European countries, the Continent could fall into recession.
But cutting off exports would also wound Russia, as fuel sales fund its war machine and nearly half its budget. Mr. Putin has few other places to send his gas, so drilling rigs would soon have to be taken down and wells sealed. This could do longer-term damage to Russian gas production.
Mr. Putin continues to underestimate European solidarity and resolve. He may think his threats will erode sanctions, but the opposite may be happening. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that German officials were prepared to support a gradual ban on Russian oil imports to the European Union.
The Biden Administration could support the Europeans by imposing secondary sanctions on businesses that help finance Russia’s oil trade so Mr. Putin can’t easily off-load his crude to China and India. It should also be moving heaven and earth to ramp up U.S. oil and gas production and exports to Europe.
Mr. Biden is doing the opposite. Last week the Administration reaffirmed support for a leasing ban on public land and imposed new permitting rules that will make it much harder to build pipelines and LNG export terminals. This week it reversed a Trump plan to open up the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to more drilling. Mr. Putin must be smiling.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has awakened Europeans from their energy illusions, but Mr. Biden is still snoozing. Time to wake up, sir.
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Oh to be a glorious Democrat and progressive radical liberal:
Democrats Blew Covid’s Politics
Biden and the party’s progressives think spending money will earn voter gratitude. Not this time.
By Daniel Henninger
WSJ Opinion: The Democratic Party Is Midterm Toast
Wonder Land: Biden and the party’s progressives think spending money will earn voter gratitude. Not this time.
The dictionary’s second definition of “landslide” is a torrent of votes for one party over its competition. But the original, more to-the-point definition is a destructive mass of rocks, mud, trees and debris hurtling down a mountain. There must be a New Yorker cartoon somewhere of a politician standing below a landslide’s leading edge and remarking, “They’re predicting sunshine tomorrow.” Say hello to the Democrats—while they’re still standing.
Congress came back to the Washington mother ship this week, and the buzz was that the Democrats will move heaven and earth to give the American public a reason to vote for them in November’s midterm elections. Maybe enact another $10 billion in Covid relief or wave a wand that erases student-loan debt. Normally I’d say good luck with that, but the party is beyond luck.
It’s time for a premortem on the Democrats’ House debacle and very possible loss of Senate control.
Barack Obama, now the party’s main oracle, said during his recent visit to the Biden White House: “You’ve got a story to tell—just got to tell it.” No, their story is the problem.
From the day Joe Biden entered office, the Democrats have displayed a misreading of how the Covid-19 pandemic had altered the country’s normal political and social alignments.
Obvious to everyone now, the pandemic forced millions to rethink everything in their lives—their jobs, children, schools, where they lived, care for elderly relatives, the routines of daily life.
This was a complex political and cultural event to which the Democratic response was Pavlovian: Throw money and expect gratitude.
What the Democrats did—first the $2 trillion 2021 Covid relief bill followed by the attempt to pass $4.6 trillion more with Build Back Better—was an exercise in political grandiosity wholly out of sync with a public that had turned inward. Even now, as the pandemic ebbs in an election year, people are preoccupied with either rebuilding their lives or restructuring careers.
Democrats might say that Mr. Biden simply replayed FDR’s Great Depression playbook of patching holes in the social fabric. Maybe, but the Depression didn’t include lockdowns, school closings and masking policies.
Democrats can also argue, in retirement, how they only “followed the science.” Whatever the justification, Democrats displayed little understanding or sympathy for how much the pandemic restrictions were disrupting people’s lives.
The White House anointed Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as arbiters of pandemic policy. Last week, Dr. Fauci confirmed that he considered himself answerable to no one outside his circle. How could the White House have seen so little peril in abdicating control of the politics amid the evolving mysteries of Covid? On Wednesday, Dr. Fauci announced we are “out of the pandemic phase.” Better late than never for Democrats.
Joe Biden promised a return to normality. But that was about Donald Trump. There was nothing normal about the America over which Mr. Biden presided. The pandemic’s social dislocations increased. Schools closed, then sort-of opened, with masking policies micromanaged into incomprehensibility. Parents were overwhelmed. The schools mess alone has baked in Democratic losses, notably in states such as New Jersey, a tinderbox of rage over closed schools.
Masking became a left-right issue. But the Democrats’ lockstep support for masking hurt them. Covering half one’s face with cloth is an apolitical hassle, which in time wore down many people who wanted out. Instead the Biden CDC, supported by the Justice Department, insisted in the pandemic’s last hour on extending the travel mask mandate. Is this what the Democrats mean by getting their message out?
At every level of government, the Democratic Party defended restrictions by aligning with the authority of science. Result: After living for two years under that authority’s thumb, people are looking for respite from government, which by definition means the Democrats.
President Biden’s claim that his economic recovery is unprecedented also mischaracterizes the public’s understanding of the pandemic experience. People know the lockdowns suspended a strong economy. One day they had a job. Then they didn’t. The U.S. rebound from this mandated downturn is natural, not a Biden miracle. Some aid helped some people, but there’s no reason that should translate into a wellspring of support for the party.
The Washington Democrats wasted their political capital in 2021 trying to create a once-and-for-all U.S. entitlement state with Build Back Better. That became a spectacle of political failure. So Sen. Elizabeth Warren, another progressive oracle, argued last weekend that the party’s survival depends on passing legislation to regulate drug prices and leaning on Mr. Biden to issue a long list of executive orders. Likely political resonance: about zero.
Six months before Election Day, this is the political landscape: Most voters see House and Senate Democrats as largely irrelevant to their lives, which today consist of climbing out of a pandemic amid rising inflation, crime and illegal border crossings.
That the Democrats are about to tumble down the mountain has nothing to do with their unheard message and everything to do with conscious policy choices.
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She is screwy alright:
Kamala Harris' Latest SCREWUP Has Vladimir Putin Laughing...
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Tensions in Israel can only escalate:
| Former Iranian official: Iran’s nuclear program was military from start | |||
| By MICHAEL SEGALL / JERUSALEM CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS | |||
| Ex-parliamentary chairman Ali Motahhari’s admission that Iran’s nuclear program was military from the start has caused a stir in Iran and reflects the disagreements within Iran’s military-religious leadership on the development and use of nuclear weapons. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The only reason she is not already in jail is because of privilege:.
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