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Title: The Issue is Iran, Not the Deal
Post by: endicom on May 07, 2018, 11:35:09 pm

PJ Media
Michael Ledeen
May 7, 2018

President Trump is on the verge of his big decision on the Iran Deal, but it seems to me that the Iran Deal is secondary; in fact, the passionate debate over the Deal leads us to the central issue. Whether he opts out of the Deal or stays in, Trump needs to decide what to do about Iran.

The Islamic Republic is at war with us. Two successive supreme leaders have declared and waged that war, led their people in chants of “death to America,” and armed, trained, funded and led IRGC and Hezbollah forces worldwide -- along with proxies that killed and kidnapped Americans throughout the Middle East and east Africa.

When Deal supporters say that we must stay in the Deal in order to avoid war with Iran, they ignore the fact that the war started in 1979 and is very much in force today.

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