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It was President Carter in 1979 who naively misunderstood the internal politics of Iran and let the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, be overthrown by Islamists. Carter was overjoyed to let the Ayatollah Khomeini return from his exile in France to take over the Iranian state. Astonishingly as we look back now at his actions, Carter believed that he was undertaking a human rights agenda.

In return, the United States was to be deeply humiliated as its embassy in Tehran was overrun and its diplomats held as prisoners by Iranian “students” for 444 days among whom were numbered many of the present day anti-American Iranian regime members, including the ex-Iranian president and certified fanatic, Mahmoud Ahmadenijad.

But Carter was clueless and gullible, believing that the Iranian Islamists, now that the Shah was removed, would usher in a period of western style democracy. President Obama is neither clueless nor gullible. On the contrary, he full knows what he is about and his unbecoming rush to embrace the Iranian mullahs is destined to become an historic catastrophe for the Free world, the West and for America’s few remaining allies in the Middle East, especially Israel.

Just a few short years ago the Iranian people, desperately wanting a secular democracy, came out into the streets of Tehran in their millions to protest the horror of living under the mullahs. Obama turned his face from them, even as they were begging for his support, and a golden opportunity to free the Iranian people and, especially the many non-Iranian peoples who live under the mullahs yoke, was lost.

Yoram Ettinger, wrote the following in his excellent blog under the title, Second Thoughts: “In view of Obama’s plans on improving relations with a rogue and dangerous regime, one may wonder why U.S. policymakers have not learned from the disastrous consequences of Jimmy Carter’s human rights mistakes on Iran.”

He is correct and we should never forget that the Iranian regime ordered the bombing of the American embassy in Beirut in 1983, killing 61 people and leaving 120 more wounded. Or that the mullahs sent members of the Iranian Republican Guards as suicide bombers to destroy the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut in 1983 killing hundreds of American soldiers.

The same Iranian terrorists blew up the Jewish Community Center in Argentina killing 85 civilians, including children, and maiming scores more. Over the years, Iran has financed and armed terrorist movements including Hamas, Hezbollah, so-called rebel groups fighting in Syria, and has provided lethal improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan which have killed and maimed hundreds of American soldiers.

The current leader of Iran may be President Rouhani but it is the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, the all-powerful Shiite Muslim ruler of Iran, who gives orders to the regime.

Ettinger adds that Khamenei adheres to the Koranic concept of Taqiyya, which requires Muslims to lie and obfuscate to infidels; the term Muslims insolently call non-Muslims. This is the deceptive manner to be employed by Muslims when entering into agreements with non-Muslims. Such agreements with “infidels” are merely provisional and must be immediately abrogated and torn up as soon as the conditions favor the Muslim partner.

As Mr. Ettinger also points out, “… that is why the November 23, 2013 agreement with Iran is a colossal mistake and has provided Iran with the most essential resource – time – to attain nuclear bomb capabilities, thus transforming Iran from a tactical – to a strategic – threat.”

During the Cold War, it was President Reagan who called the U.S.S.R the evil empire, and so it was. But the Russian finger on the nuclear button was nevertheless a rational finger. Remember the U.S. and Soviets had an agreed policy of Mutually-Assured-Destruction (MAD). The Iranian finger is anything but rational and must never be trusted in any similar agreement.

The Iranian regime includes fanatical mullahs who yearn for the apocalyptic coming of what they call the Twelfth Imam. Remember this same regime, who President Carter so misguidedly helped usher into power, was willing and eager to let up to some 500,000 Iranian children die clearing Iraqi minefields during its long war against Saddam Hussein.

According to Reuters, November 19, 2013, “The U.N. envoy on human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, said last month that Iran’s human rights record should not be overlooked amid overtures to the West by Rouhani. He criticized Tehran for executing 724 people in just 18 months, including dozens after Rouhani was elected in June.”

Iran has sizeable ethnic minorities, many of whom are, and have been, endangered by the regime. According to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in a report from August 2010, “over recent decades Iran has deliberately pursued a policy of exclusion towards Arab, Azerbaijani Turk, Balochi, Kurdish and Turkmen communities.” Iran also has small pockets of Baha’i, Christian, and Jewish communities, and all face periodic discrimination or worse.

Even as the man President Obama is so eager to negotiate with, Iran’s President Rouhani, was smooth talking the ever gullible West, and even as the secret negotiations between Iran and Obama’s policy advisor, the Iranian born Valerie Jarrett, were continuing, Rouhani was establishing ever firmer military relations with North Korea.

Bill Gertz, military correspondent of the Washington Times’, reported on November 26 that the two rogue regimes are currently engaged in the joint development of a new long-range missile, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, which could reach the United States.

In developing its nuclear weapons and the missiles to carry atomic warheads, Khamenei’s hand-picked president, Rouhani, while smiling at his duped Western counterparts, has every intention of sacrificing millions of Iranians in a nuclear war with what he calls the Big Satan (America) and the little Satan (Israel). This is why all agreements with Iran are not worth the paper they are printed on.

Shi’ite Muslims believe that the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, is the last in a line of saints, descended from Ali, the founder of their Shi’ite sect. The belief is that this Mahdi vanished down a well in 941 AD but that after the beginning of the apocalyptic wars, which Iran’s nukes will usher in, the Mahdi will be revealed and the entire world will submit to Islam.

This end times belief is the driving force that was behind Ahmadinejad’s incessant doomsday rants, and remains the undying belief of the Ayatollah Khameni, leading members of the Iranian regime, and tens of thousands of fanatical mullahs.

The finger on the Iranian nuclear button is by no stretch of the imagination a rational finger. Rather it is the finger of doom.

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Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer with articles and essays published in FrontPageMag.com, Outpost, American Thinker, Renew America, Israel News Daily, Family Security Matters, Page One Daily, The Jerusalem Connection, Israel National News and many other publications. He is also the author of Volumes One,Two and Three of Politicide: and a book of short stories, The Blue Hour and Other Strange Tales.