Iran has now out-pioneered even North Korea in the art of nuclear extortion. As Congress embarks on its 60-day review of the Iran deal, it would be wise to consider not only the implications for Iran and the Middle East, but for a world
Nuclear Extortion: Pioneered by North Korea, Perfected by Iran
Forbes.com
With implications reaching far beyond the Middle East, the Iran nuclear deal opens the gates not to a safer world, but to proliferation on a scale likely to defy any peaceful efforts at containment. With the fatally flawed bargain announced Tuesday in Vienna, the U.S. and its negotiating partners have underscored, bigtime, the sorry lesson of the series of failed nuclear deals that helped sustain North Korea's regime all the way to the bomb: In a game of nuclear chicken, the U.S. will flinch. In the post-Cold War era, nuclear blackmail works.
