No Illusions ... None Whatever

"We have no illusions about the Iranian government or the significance of the Revolutionary Guard and the Quds Force ... "
"Iran supports terrorist organizations like Hezbollah. It supports proxy groups that threaten our interests and the interests of our allies, including proxy groups who killed our troops in Iraq."
U.S. President Barack Obama

Deal: U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, both pictured this week

"I didn't see the final documents [in 'side deals' between the IAEA and Iran]. I saw the provisional documents, as did my experts."
"I was shown documents that I believe to be the final documents, but whether, in fact, there are any further discussions ..."
"Indeed our understanding of the Corker-Cardin legislation [on the Iran Nuclear Review] that passed by the House and the Senate, is that we must give you every document that we have, and we have given you every document that we have [but the administration has no copies of the documents on the 'side deal'].
Lead U.S. negotiator Wendy Sherman

The nuclear agreement with Iran which saw the United States negotiators capitulate on all issues before the bargaining team of the P5+1, has had an interesting side-effect. Not only has it estranged the United States further from its traditional Middle East allies; Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, but it has given an additional impetus to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The issue is the U.S. support of Shiites and its decision to jettison its support of Sunnis in the Middle East.

The revelation further that U.S troops and Iran-backed Shia militias were in effect sharing the same airbase in Iraq gives added strength to this apprehension that Sunni Arabs have been abandoned to an American alliance with Shiite Persia and its Shia acolytes. Abu Mohammad al Adnani, ISIL spokesman, now warns of a Western plan whereby the United States is leading a move to surrender  the Sunni Middle East to non-Arab Shiite Iran.

Clearly, the Obama administration has not thought through the consequences of its chosen alliances. In partnering with Shia Iraq and Iran against the Sunni Islamic State jihadists the conventional Middle Eastern balance has suddenly come undone. The majority of Sunnis now believe a conspiracy has resulted leaving them vulnerable to Iran's self-aggrandizing plans to command the Middle East. Tehran has, in effect, been given what it has sought by the very agency it calls Satanic.

Iran will very soon be free to collect on its sanctioned investments and with that will come increased financial support of Syria's Bashar al Assad, of Hezbollah, of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And terror attacks will be financed to instruct the world that Iran is on the ascendancy. French President Francois Hollande revealed recently that his country is busy foiling terrorist plots on a weekly basis.

As far as Scotland Yard is concerned, an average of one potential terrorist is arrested daily in the United Kingdom. ISIL is recruiting more successfully than ever before throughout the West. And why hesitate to increase attacks on the West, since it has turned its back on majority Sunni Muslims in favour of minority Shiite Muslims?

And in the United States itself, President Obama is frantically attempting to sell the success of his deal with Iran to a newly skeptical public. The latest Quinnipiac poll has the American public rejecting the Iran deal by over two-to-one. The side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have been revealed to have flaws that hugely benefit Iran to the detriment of the Security Council members plus Germany's stated intention to slow down its nuclear ambitions.

The Obama administration's insistence that "international inspectors would monitor Iran's facilities and if Iran is caught breaking the agreement economic sanctions would be imposed again", defies belief that sanctions could be reimposed; 'snapback' sanctions are a figment of an intentional lie. An impossibility but for the gullible to accept. The 24-day advance notice of impending inspections is yet another absurdity.

The aerial photos released by a Washington think tank purportedly show new activity at Parchin, including (from left) 'one small container removed'; 'unidentified vehicle, possibly bulldozer or steamroller', 'new roof activity', 'two new unidentified structures', 'debris' and 'possible oil spills'

And while all suspicious sites were to have been open to IAEA inspection teams, it is clear that the Parchin military facility where it is suspected with good reason that Iran has already tested nuclear detonation devices is to be strictly off limits. Congress, despite this, is expected by President Obama to validate the agreement that benefits Iran's "Death to America!" mullahs' intentions.  Just as Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser to the supreme leader states "entry into our military sites is absolutely forbidden".

Which didn't stop the U.S. President from placing 'warmongering' Republicans into the same basket with Iranian 'hard-liners' -- as being soul-brothers. Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards have hidden their rogue nuclear weapons program despite multiple Security Council declarations of illegality, and the imposition of sanctions and embargoes. That, at the very least, is no longer secret.

But the Good Fairy of peace and goodwill has released Iran from those sanctions and embargoes with a treaty legitimizing the Iranian nuclear program, and lifting the embargo on ballistic missiles and conventional weapons, while reviving the economy with the generosity of $150-billion in released frozen assets, unlimited oil sales and access to international finances.

Illustrative photo of a Fateh-110 ballistic missile, taken at an Iranian armed forces parade in 2012. (military.ir/Wikimedia Commons)