Preparing for Iranian Hegemony in the Middle East

By Gary H. Johnson, Jr., AT:

Newsweek has all but officially become the pulp-based mouthpiece of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Obama administration’s inner sanctum of advisers.

Following the first official U.S. diplomatic effort with Iran on October 1, a few Westerners realized that Iranian hegemony in the Middle East was virtually assured by the Geneva P5 plus 1 sit-down. Iran had proven itself a rational actor on the geopolitical stage by simply passing a letter to the Council on Foreign Relations to be handed to President Obama’s foreign policy team in early September. In that letter, Iran agreed to assume the role of a regional superpower through a process of engagement. The fact that Iran’s new nuclear facility near Qom was not a bombshell in the international community indicated that the world readily accepted Iran’s rejection of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime’s rules in defiance of the sanctions it was facing from the international community. In so doing, Iran beat Western leaders to the nuclear punch, agreed to set up token inspections, and set the world on a new axis.

[...]

MORE