June 16, 2014 | Quote
Obama Goes To Iran (!) For Help With Iraq
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Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies e-mailed, “To enlist Tehran, the leading state sponsor of terrorism, in a fight against ISIS, a non-state terrorist organization, makes as much sense as stocking a river with crocodiles to deal with a piranha problem.”
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Mark Dubowitz, who helped craft the anti-Iran sanctions framework, finds this all deeply disturbing. He told Right Turn, “Iran is reducing American negotiating leverage on multiple fronts. The White House permitted the Iranian economy to recover from an imminent crisis by de-escalating the sanctions pressure. The White House ignored a Syrian opposition who once shared our interests and stood by while Iran helped turn Syria into a jihadist inferno.”
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