Iran's President Hassan Rouhani welcomes the International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general, Yukiya Amano, at the start of their meeting in... View Enlarged Image
Iran Deal: It was like the local Mafia collector dropping by just to say "it would be a shame if something happened to you." Iran warned the UN's chief atomic watchdog he might come to "harm."
Never mind "The Audacity of Hope." In Iran, the audacity of hate seems to have no limits.
How much nerve does it take to go so far as to issue a vague physical threat — during "peace" negotiations — to the head of the agency charged with inspecting nuclear facilities where cheating could be going on?
Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, briefing Iranian lawmakers Monday, boasted that its government sent a letter threatening Yukiya Amano, the chief of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency.
Tehran's AEOI disclosed that the warning to Amano said that if the secret side agreements on inspections between Iran and the IAEA are revealed, "we will lose our trust in" the IAEA.
It conceded that "despite the U.S. Congress's pressures," Amano "didn't give any information to them," as reported by the Iranian regime's Fars NewsAgency.
"Had he done so," an AEOI spokesman added, however, "he himself would have been harmed."
If Tehran is this intent on keeping the specifics of the secret side deals on inspections from the U.S., how skeptical would members of Congress of both parties be of them if they could read them?
And as many have asked, how can Congress know what it's voting for — or, for that matter, how can President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry know what they're signing — if they don't know what's in the side agreements?
Will closer observation of the side deals on inspections show them to be an unenforceable sham?
The inspection mechanism agreed upon within those side deals between Iran and the IAEA are a crucial component of the overall deal.
What's more, according to intelligence reporter Yossi Melman, writing in the Jerusalem Post on Monday, "Iran, through Hezbollah, continues trying to establish terror cells in the Golan Heights area and we can already talk about a 'forward command' of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Al-Quds Force."
The 15,000-strong elite Quds Force, likely to grow in size when hundreds of millions of dollars in Iranian assets are unfrozen, reports directly to the Ayatollah Khamenei and organizes terrorism outside the Iranian borders.
These operatives would be the ones charged with causing "harm" to a political figure like Amano whom the ayatollah considered an irritant.
One thing we can be confident of, based on the threat to Amano and the intensification of Iranian-backed power near Israel: With the nuclear deal, Iran considers itself on the rise toward becoming a dominant regional power.
President Obama may assure us it is "alarmist" to fear Tehran's rise. But he's the same guy who assured us the Islamic State was a "jayvee" team, and that if you liked your health plan you could keep it.
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