Iran Is Not Going to Give Up its Nuclear Weapons Program

The key variables here aren’t economic or strategic, they’re Islamic.

by Daniel Greenfield

The problem is simple.

Iran wants nuclear weapons because of its religious belief in Jihad. It’s not going to give up that belief for money. And money is the only thing we have to offer it in the form of dropping sanctions. That puts us right back to the same place where Obama’s Iran Deal negotiations were.

Sure the Trump administration bombed an Iranian nuclear plant, but we’re not going to go in with a full regime change operation. And, frankly even if the Iranians believed we would, it still wouldn’t change anything. Their government is a theocracy founded on an Islamic revolution that was going to be as uncompromising as possible. Asking it to give up its nuclear weapons is asking it to give up its religious mission of Jihad.

So what comes next?

The negotiators trying to work out a new Iran Deal are already on the same course trying to find some ‘middle ground’ between having Iran give up its nuclear weapons ambitions by redefining what ‘nuclear’ is. Turkey has proposed moving Iran’s enriched uranium to its own Islamic terrorist state. And we can trust Erdogan and Turkey as much as we can trust Iran.

Qatar and the Koch assets in the Pentagon and the NSC will be working hard to craft a ‘compromise’ that Witkoff or some other useful idiot can present for Iran Deal 2.0.

And we can keep going down that dead end or recognize that any deal Iran will agree to will be a deal that it believes will allow it to develop nukes.

There’s no sense in us signing on to such a deal.

The less time we spend playing silly games with terrorists, the better off we are. If we’re not going to overthrow Iran’s Jihadist regime, then we at the very least shouldn’t demean ourselves through the folly of negotiating with it.

Tehran stuck to its refusal to end enrichment of nuclear fuel in talks Friday between senior U.S. and Iranian officials, but both sides signaled a willingness to keep working toward a diplomatic solution that could head off an American strike.

According to Iranian state media, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his U.S. counterparts that Tehran wouldn’t agree to end enrichment or move it offshore, rejecting a core U.S. requirement.

The U.S. wants Tehran to stop enriching uranium, curb its ballistic-missile program and end its support for regional proxies. Iran has said it is willing to discuss only its nuclear work.

It’s not discussing anything, it’s stalling as it did under Obama. If a deal comes along that allows it to continue developing its nuclear program, it’ll take it. If not, it’ll go on doing it anyway.

The key variables here aren’t economic or strategic, they’re Islamic.

Until we recognize that, it’s all going nowhere.