ANALYSIS: Why Obama’s mistakes in the Middle East should never be repeated http:// ara.tv/ncq9d via @AlArabiya_Eng by @TonyDuheaume #Iran
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ANALYSIS , Iranians, neighbouring , theIranian, alsothe , Bashar al-Assad,Houthis. Supporters of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (the JCPOA) have been very active on social media this afternoon claiming that Secretary of Defense James Mattis broke with President Trump when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the United States should remain in the Iran deal. JCPOA supporters are worried that President Trump will not certify to Congress by an October 15 deadline that the JCPOA is in America’s national-security interests and that Iran is in compliance. But after the president called the agreement “an embarrassment to the United States” in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last month, JCPOA advocates are even more worried that he will withdraw the U.S. from the agreement, possibly using a plan drafted by Ambassador John Bolton, which National Review published on August 28. Prodded by JCPOA supporters, the media is playing up Mattis’s state...
ANALYSIS : The disintegrating moral fabric of Iranian society Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had nothing but contempt for the ordinary citizens of Iran. In his own words, he saw them as “ignorant, incomplete and imperfect”. Such was his contempt for those he was destined to enslave that he described them as nothing more than brutes, who would eventually destroy each other if left to their own devices. In his arrogant mind, he believed that it was only through his astute and strict leadership, they could be moulded into a unified nation. He never really recognized the people’s part in bringing him to power, such was his egotism. He believed that it was he had reached the pinnacle through his own devices, having judiciously chosen his goals by unveiling the truth of religion, through which he was able to attain a position of absolute power and would lead Iran toward eventually dominating the world. Iranians shop in a supermarket in north Tehran, Iran, on April 29, 2015. (AP)...