Dr. Zarif or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Iranian bomb

WASHINGTON TIMES
by Clifford May
May 6, 2015

…International law requires the United States to live up to the terms of an agreement that this government enters into.” Just so we’re clear: “This government” means President Obama who is planning to “enter into” an agreement even if most members of Congress consider it detrimental to the security of the U.S and its allies. Mr. Obama plans to do this by not calling the agreement a treaty – which would require a Senate vote for ratification – but rather a non-binding “executive agreement” that he can then turn over to the UN Security Council which will issue what Dr. Zarif called a “mandatory resolution” that will bind the U.S. “whether Senator Cotton likes it or not.”…In The New Yorker, Dexter Filkins – a journalist for whom I have enormous admiration — did report without equivocation that Dr. Zarif “is the foreign minister of a state that has killed hundreds of Americans (in Iraq, in Lebanon), and is possibly the world’s most active sponsor of terrorism. Mr. Filkins added: “He doesn’t apologize for, or even acknowledge, any of that.” READ MORE

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