The Man Who Owns the Current Iran Crisis
Analyzing Obama's impact on the Iran crisis and the consequences of the nuclear deal.
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20 Jun 2025 ~~ By Victor Davis Hanson
In 2015, former President Barack Obama signed a deal with the murderous Iranian regime, putting America last and our allies in danger.
Instead of punishing the largest state sponsor of terror for the murder and kidnapping of thousands of Americans, starting in 1979 and continuing for decades through proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and others, Obama rewarded them. In return, the Iranian regime cheated its way through the “agreement,” secretly pursuing a nuclear weapon, while continuing its attacks on U.S. troops and innocent Americans. Flush with billions in cash and gold delivered by the Obama administration, Iran was emboldened, and their malign activity became more aggressive with a goal of further humiliating the United States.
In 2016, just six months after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed and two days after major sanctions were lifted on the regime, Iran took U.S. sailors captive, violated the Geneva Convention, and published forced “confessions” of wrongdoing on Iranian state television. They forced female sailors to cover their hair in captivity.
“Iranian media broadcast humiliating images of the US sailors during their detention, showing them kneeling on their boats at gunpoint with their hands on their heads,” The Guardian reported at the time.
The JCPOA didn’t prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon; it simply delayed it, and the terms did practically nothing to stop the regime's ballistic and intercontinental program.
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For those who argue, “We’ve been told Iran almost has a nuke for 30 years.” Yes, Iran has been pursuing a nuclear weapon for decades, and thanks to the brave work of the Israelis to set the program back year after year, they’ve been prevented from getting one. But like all half measures, eventually, setbacks aren’t enough, and today, the threat must be eliminated.
“We’re going to have a solution one way or the other. It’s either going to be violent or non-violent. And I far prefer non-violent,” Trump told Fox News in May.
Iranian missiles are raining down on Israeli civilians, targeting hospitals, schools, synagogues, churches, and mosques. A thousand miles away, the Israeli Air Force is paving the way for a final nail to be placed in Iran’s nuclear program. When the program is gone, either by force or through diplomacy, the world will be a safer place. Unlike the moves of the past by Obama and Biden, Trump's support of the Israeli operation and preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is not only a real path to peace, it's America First.
Commentary:
“Death to America” is a sentiment shared by the Ayatollahs, Obama and the Democrat Party.
DSA Democrats and jihadis have some things in common — hatred for and a plan to destroy America, Israel, and western civilization.
We all heard in Barry's Fundamental Transformation of America speech, his desire to set the world on fire by flipping the balance of power in the Middle East from the Sunnis to the Shia, in hopes they would destroy Israel,.start WWIII, and bring about the Great Reset.
He almost made it in creating ISIL/ISIS while kowtowing to the Mullahs in Iran.
With the fall of Iran, there's a good possibility that Obama's hopes and the NWO will have caved and a modicum of peace can come to the Middle East.
