Iran, Our New Best Friend?

Posted by Tina

“When I first ran for president I said it was time for a new era of American leadership in the world, one that turned the page on a decade of war and began a new era of our engagement with the world.” – President barrack Obama

While President Obama patted himself on the back, as if Iran is our new best friend, Iran announced to the world that soon the U.S. and Iran will share a Chamber of Commerce:

Member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture Abolfazl Hejazi:

“Iran-U.S. chamber of commerce will be launched in less than one month”.

Hejazi also said that the government has authorized the private sector to launch joint activities and that Iran was ready to establish direct flights to the United States. He stressed that establishing a direct flight line to the US is necessary for resuming trade ties. He said the planes will take off from Kish Island to land in New York and vice versa. “This is because the Island is a free trade zone and Iranian passengers who have US citizenship will not need to obtain visas to enter it.” He added that on the island, they can apply for visa to visit other parts of the country. Currently, the flight line will be established for economic purposes, he stressed. “It will enable us to export domestic products to the US and import high-tech products and raw materials from the country”

Sounds cozy, huh?

Some of us who live in the real world have to wonder what the President could possibly be thinking. Indications that Iran is America’s friend are nowhere to be found. Instead there are countless examples that show Iran’s intentions are not friendly.

Investors.com reports:

Proliferation: As we shutter our ICBM squadrons and destroy our silos, Iran and North Korea are working on technology to deliver nukes Pyongyang already has and Tehran is a few centrifuge rotations from acquiring.

As Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon reports, groups of technicians from the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG), a unit in charge of building Iran’s liquid-fueled missiles, have made repeated trips to North Korea during the past several months, including as recently as late October, to work on a new 80-ton rocket booster being developed by the North Koreans.

That booster is believed to be the foundation for a new heavy-lift missile with intercontinental range and capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead. It would be far more capable than Pyongyang’s Taepodong or Iran’s Shahab missile series.

The booster was described by one official as a thruster for a “super ICBM” or a heavy-lift space launcher. “It is completely new from what they have done so far,” he added.

The L.A. Times reported this morning that Jamaican authorities intercepted and seized 3,300 warhead missiles while we feasted on turkey dinner:

Jamaican authorities have seized 3,300 warheads and a missile-making machine at the port of Kingston and sought help from international police in tracking the shipper, Jamaican media reported Friday.

The unauthorized arms shipment was discovered Thursday afternoon in a police and customs operation carried out at a berth of Kingston Wharves, the RJR News site reported.

A high-level investigation has been launched, and Jamaican police have asked for assistance from international law enforcement, the news service said.

Our president does read his security briefs right? That’s what we’re told.

Last summer, NBC’s World News reported another shipment:

A North Korean cargo ship was stopped near the Panama Canal and searched on suspicion of drugs, but it was carrying something sweeter — the apparent parts of a surface-to-air missile system, hidden inside containers of brown sugar.

The State Department said any shipment of arms or related material aboard the freighter would violate at least three U.N. resolutions.

The ship was on its way home from Cuba. Panamanian authorities said the captain of the ship tried to kill himself after officials boarded it Monday and began searching the containers that were supposed to contain the sugar.

Vladimir Putin is tickled pink over the deal and why not, we are apparently now allied with Russia against Israel:

MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday praised a last-minute agreement between Iran and the six international negotiators on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

“The agreement is a balanced list of measures and it will certainly have a positive influence on the development of the international situation, especially in the Middle Eastern region,” Putin said in a statement as quoted by the Kremlin.

Our border with Mexico is porous. Last March the Arizona Capitol Times disputed, but also duly reported terror threats at the US Border with Mexico:

I would like to emphatically state that there is indeed ample evidence of terrorist activity coming across the border, including activity by Hezbollah. For example, on Feb. 2, former Chief of Operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Michael Braun, testified before Congress about Iran’s growing influence along the southern United States Border.

Braun testified that the terrorist group, Hezbollah, has developed strong, sophisticated relationships with Mexican drug cartels. “And by developing those relations it provides them with the ability to operate far from home in our neighborhood and – as I said earlier – on our doorstep,” he replied.

At the same hearing, “Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, committee member and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, asked about Hezbollah’s relationship to criminal organizations in the Western Hemisphere and what it means for U.S. security. Braun replied with the warning that those relationships allow “these groups to operate freely in our neighborhood” and said the U.S. would regret it if the threats were not taken seriously.”

Hello…Iran is the worlds greatest sponsor of terror…not a country to be trusted.

I ask again….what exactly was it that Obama meant when he said to Dmitri Medvedev, “I’ll have more flexibility after the election” while both were attending talks on missile defense?

It could be we’re on schedule to find out that “fundamental transformation” involves the darkest of dark realities.