Turkey, Saudi Arabia Must Get Nuclear Bombs

The Middle East policy unveiled by President Elect Joe Biden, in his interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, teaches the world the following lesson: America, under the Democrats, rewards trouble-making countries, like Iran, and punishes allies, like Turkey.

Before he was elected president, Biden wrote on CNN’s website that “if Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations.” Rejoining the agreement means America lifting its sanctions that have dried up Iranian treasury and forced it to stop funding global terrorism and regional militias.

According to Friedman: “The view of Biden and his national security team has been that once the deal is restored by both sides, there will have to be, in very short order, a round of negotiations to seek to lengthen the duration of the restrictions on Iran’s production of fissile material that could be used to make a bomb — originally 15 years — as well as to address Iran’s malign regional activities, through its proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.”

So Biden wants to lift sanctions, because he thinks the priority is to roll back the Iranian nuclear bomb program and prevent Saudi and Turkey from getting themselves similar programs. Once sanctions are lifted and Iran starts using its money to sponsor terrorism and fund its regional militias, the US will talk to Iran about these militias that have undermined the states of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and threatened Saudi Arabia.

But what happens if no agreement is reached over Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and militias? Will Biden restore Trump’s sanctions? If he does, Iran will revive its nuclear program. Then what? Remove and negotiate again? Biden’s foreign policy is built on circular reasoning, a logical fallacy.

In fact, Iran outsmarted Obama in a deal that was reversed by Trump. By tying Iran’s nuclear bomb program to sanctions, the world conceded its leverage to stop Iranian sponsorship of global terrorism and regional militias. Once the deal was signed, Iran started selling fossil fuel and collecting revenue, with which it funded terrorism and militias.

This is how Obama, and now Biden, deal with a country that tries to make a nuclear bomb, and whose militias have killed over 1500 Americans over the past decades.

But how does America deal with its allies, say like Turkey, which never pursued a nuclear bomb program or killed any Americans?

In January, Biden told The New York Times that, if elected president, he will “support those elements of the Turkish leadership that still exist and get more from them and embolden them to be able to take on and defeat [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan.” Biden added: “Not by a coup, not by a coup, but by the electoral process.” America will just sponsor those who can trounce the president of a NATO ally.

Compare how Biden plans to lift sanctions on Iran, by rewarding it for freezing its nuclear bomb program, and how Biden wants to deal with Turkey, by ending the rule of its president through elections. If you are a world leader, you will conclude that when America is scared of your nuclear bomb program, Washington will let you get away with murder and terrorism. But when you don’t have a nuclear bomb program to scare America, Washington will come after you and use democracy against you.

While Biden argues that he wants to stop the Iranian nuclear bomb program, presumably to prevent other countries from getting one, he will in effect encourage other countries to get a nuclear bomb program which they can freeze as their get-out-of-jail card, which they can then use whenever they please, to blackmail whichever country they want with terrorism or otherwise.

So why Biden’s going back to the Iranian nuclear deal is a terrible idea? Now you know.