Jan. 22, 2016

• The Real Story of “Implementation Day” – Charles Krauthammer
  The real story of Jan. 16 – “Implementation Day” of the Iran deal – was that in a stroke, Iran shed almost four decades of rogue-state status and was declared a citizen of good standing of the international community, open to trade, investment and diplomacy. This, without giving up, or even promising to change, its policy of subversion and aggression. This, without having forfeited its status as the world’s greatest purveyor of terrorism.
  On Saturday, the Iranian transport minister announced the purchase of 114 Airbuses from Europe. Cash-rich, reconnected with global banking and commerce, and facing an Arab world collapsed into a miasma of raging civil wars, Iran has instantly become the dominant power of the Middle East. Iran is the regional hegemon, with a hand – often predominant – in the future of Syria, Yemen, Iraq, the Gulf Arab states and, in time, in the very survival of Israel. (Washington Post)

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