FAIL: Negotiations with Iran over Halting their Nuclear Weapons Development have Stopped.

By Rob Janicki

News all over the media indicates that America and its allies have failed to achieve a negotiated settlement with Iran to stop their uranium enrichment, which is obviously meant to achieve weapons grade material to develop one or more nuclear weapons.  It doesn't take a genius to understand that the negotiations with Iran over their nuclear weapons development was destined to fail.

Once again, the government of Iran has played the United States and its allies for the fools they are.  Time is the enemy of those seeking to prevent Iran from acquiring weapons grade uranium.  

Conversely, time is the ally of Iran.  The longer they can keep stringing out the western allies in negotiations, the closer they come to their goal, which is a nuclear weapon that can be delivered in one of their intermediate ballistic missiles.

Iran has developed ballistic missiles which can reach Europe and, if deployed on a ship, can easily come within striking distance of most of America's most vital centers.  The Islamic terrorist leadership of the Iranian government has a much longer time frame for their ultimate success than most people in the west can understand.  Similar to the Chinese outlook, the terrorists leading Iran thinks in terms of multiple generations, to achieve their goals, which the western allies have difficulty in grasping.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to play into the Iranian game, all the while posturing to the world that the allies have successfully used economic sanctions to forestall Iran's development of one or more nuclear weapons.  Rather than continuing and expanding the economic sanctions on Iran, the allies lead by President Obama, have actually reduced the economic sanctions against Iran, with the excuse that such action was meant to entice Iran to return to negotiations and realize it is in Iran's best interest to return to a state of non nuclear development, thus enjoying economic opportunities for their national growth.

The problem with this thinking is that it does not take into account the willingness of the Iranian terrorist regime to take Iran into oblivion, sanctions or not.  The Iranian regime simply has a fatalistic view that it will ultimately prevail or go down taking untold numbers of innocent victims with it.  

The western allies need to understand the perspective of the Iranian regime and realize it may well take a concerted effort to militarily stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.  It should be obvious to even our dimwitted president that Iran will, if not physically stopped, develop nuclear weapons to threaten Israel, the western allies and even their neighbors in the Middle East.  

Prime Minister Netanyahu to BBC: "No deal is better than a bad deal. The deal that Iran was pushing for was terrible" pic.twitter.com/KuG3Y0FNLH
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) November 24, 2014

Iran's goal is simply to exercise overwhelming hegemony over the entire Middle East.  In addition Iran has a demonstrated messianic mindset to literally wipe Israel off the face of the earth to advance Islam and Iran's own worldwide self image.  Having lived and worked in Iran in the early 1970's, I can attest to the fact that Iranians have a very strong view of their 2000 year plus Persian heritage dating back to their world advances, which were close to the size and extent of the Roman Empires.

PM Netanyahu at #UNGA2014: There is a new Middle East. It presents new dangers but also new opportunities
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 29, 2014

PM Netanyahu at #UNGA2014: In any peace agreement I will always insist that Israel be able to defend itself by itself.
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 29, 2014

All that said, when you are dealing with religious zealots, the likes of which we see in the leadership of Iran, reason is not part of any settlement equation that can ever hope to be achieved by western standards.