"President Obama’s brief phone call with Iran’s clerical president and his inking of a disarmament deal with Vladimir Putin, both of which happened at the margins of the UN General Assembly meeting last week, elicited hearty self-congratulations for unprecedented "diplomatic breakthroughs." Yet unnoticed by those now competing to decide when exactly the gates of Imam Khomeini International Airport will open to American tourists is the unmistakable fact if any meaningful behind-the-scenes deal-making is currently underway, then it is between and among Moscow, Tehran, and Damascus. All three have only exploited the August 21 sarin attack on Ghouta by solidifying their pre-existing alliances with one another and coordinating a clever new propaganda campaign aimed directly at an antiwar American electorate, the importance of which they only accidentally discovered after the White House insisted on asking Congress to authorize airstrikes on Syria." In other words, the US, Russia and Iran will make their reconciliation (which has been an open secret for a long time now; they work closer together than many think) public, enjoy new trade, diplomatic, military and financial benefits as a result of their new alliance, and the only people to suffer from this will be the whole population of Syria, and the oppressed populations of Iran and Russia. Lovely. https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/the-real-deal
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 09:05:01 +0000
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