THE OBSERVER
by Abraham H. Miller
February 25, 2015

Barack Obama will go down in history as the American president who enabled the Shi’ite theocracy to become the region’s hegemonic power and looked the other way while Iran developed the bomb…The real issue is that the Obama administration back in 2012 created a secret link to Iran through Oman without telling the Israelis and all the while leading them to believe that Mr. Obama would not permit Iran to have the breakout capacity for a nuclear device. That the administration believed Israeli intelligence would not learn of these secret talks is in and of itself an act of stupidity. To assume that the Israelis would not be outraged that the administration had made a seismic shift in policy from stopping Iran to containing and monitoring Iran without telling them is an act of betrayal…But when it came to Iran, Mr. Obama not only engaged, he also prevented Israel from independently pursuing its own strategic interests to stop the Iranian program. READ MORE