Obama throws a bone to Ahmadinejad
On the day after the US midterm elections, President Obama threw yet another concession to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by designating the Sunni group Jundullah a terror organization. Jundullah is active in Iran in trying to overthrow the Iranian government. The designation is interesting, because Iranian officials have voiced suspicions in the past that the United States may be providing covert support to the group which has carried out terrorist attacks that have killed Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps officers and civilians, which the United States has always denied.Ahmadinejad has rejected every other overture from Obama. Why should this one be different?
Such designations take months to move through the bureaucracy and to develop the rationale and documentation to be able to withstand legal scrutiny.
Still, some Washington Iran experts saw the designation as a "signal" to Iran mindful of upcoming negotiations expected to take place in Europe later this month.
The designation of Jundullah shows "one bureaucratic fight in favor of engagement was won," one Washington Iran expert said on condition of anonymity. "But whether it's sufficient or not and how it is followed up remains to be seen."
Labels: designated terror organization, Iran, Jundullah, nuclear, P 5+1
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:39 AM
1 Comments:
Apparently, the elections were not enough to induce Obama to cancel his Administration's "engagement" AKA appeasement policy towards Iran.
What could go wrong indeed
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