comment by jerry Gordon

President Bush and his ‘legacy lap’ trip to the EU has apparently succeeded in ratcheting up more economic sanctions against Mahdist Iran An Iran lurching towards a nuke arsenal replete with Shahab 3 missiles to deliver them to targets in the Middle East like Israel and even Eurabia. But as this IBD editorial points out Iran Ayatollahs may have other plans afoot; equipping Hezbollah with the makings of ‘dirty’ bombs’ to secret them across the Lebanese border into Israel or via its extensive network into the EU, UK and here.

Note these ‘doublespeak’ comments from Ayatollah Khamanei:

Khamenei said, “The Iranian nation is against such weapons based on its religious beliefs as well as based in logic and wisdom.”

But almost in the next breath, he added: “Before long, the world’s terrorists will have access to nuclear weapons and take away security from all the tyrants of the world and all the nations of the world.”

As our ally Steven Emerson points out in recent comments on a Hannity & Colmes panel discussion, Hezbollah has an extensive network, especially among the 150,000 shia in and around Dearborn, Michigan. Last week, Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz spoke plainly in Yediot Aharanot interview about striking at Iran’s nuclear facilities. General Petreaus has told the Congress that Iran is the leading supporter of terrorist proxies in the region. Note this comment from this IBD editorial:

“It persists in its nontransparent pursuit of nuclear technology and continues to fund, train and arm dangerous militia organizations,” Petraeus told the committee. “Iran’s activities have been particularly harmful in Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Afghanistan.”

If the balloon does go up on a possible attack on Iran nuke facilities, before the end of President Bush’s term, will presumptive Democratic and GOP nominees, Obama and McCain be clued in? Stayed tuned.

Investors Business Daily, Editorial, June 10, 2008

WMD: Iran’s supreme leader proclaims Tehran isn’t interested in nuclear weapons itself but that someday terrorists will have such weapons. We’ll need more than Barack Obama’s doublespeak to stop them.

The U.S. and the European Union this week announced tentative plans to ratchet up economic sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program.

It’s a pretty tough move, one spearheaded by President Bush, that will grab Iran’s attention. It also appears to be a preparatory step to a possible military strike against Iran if it refuses to stop its nuclear weapons program.

That’s one way to deal with a dangerous rogue state. Obama has another.

If a President Obama ever gets to conduct his “aggressive personal diplomacy” with Iran, it will present the world with an interesting dialogue in which leaders of both countries are talking out of both sides of their mouths.

The man who is apparently running for Jimmy Carter’s second and third terms once said that he was willing to talk with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions.

Now, having discovered the Jewish vote, he talks of the need for careful preparations for such talks: “Contrary to the claims of some (including his own speechwriters), I have no interest in sitting down with our adversaries just for the sake of talking.”

That’s not the only issue regarding Iran that he’s flip-flopped on.

At the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee last Wednesday, he said he would do “everything” to keep Iran from going nuclear. He defended Israel’s strike on a Syrian nuclear facility.

Yet when Hillary Clinton suggested nuking Iran if it attacked Israel, he denounced her use of “language reflective of George Bush.”

During the primaries, when he still wanted to make nice with the thug du jour, Obama opposed the Kyl-Lieberman resolution that called for designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

Obama called the resolution “saber-rattling” and a “blank check” for war. At AIPAC, he said the Quds force of the IRGC has “rightly been labeled a terrorist organization.”

This is the man who wants to talk with Ahmadinejad, the Iranian despot who has pledged to nuke Israel off the map.

He must have been encouraged when Ahmadinejad’s boss, the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a speech to mark the 19th anniversary of the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini on June 3, said nuclear weapons were contrary to the teachings of Islam and Iran had no interest in possessing them.

Khamenei said, “The Iranian nation is against such weapons based on its religious beliefs as well as based in logic and wisdom.”

But almost in the next breath, he added: “Before long, the world’s terrorists will have access to nuclear weapons and take away security from all the tyrants of the world and all the nations of the world.”

Hezbollah is the Iranian terrorist group set up by Tehran as its foreign legion.

Before 9/11, it was responsible for more American deaths than al-Qaida. Its most recent success was the almost bloodless coup in Lebanon, giving it behind-the-scenes control of Iran’s new client state.

Gen. David Petraeus, the man Obama is not quite so passionate about meeting, warned the Senate Armed Services Committee recently about Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology and its willingness to use groups such as Hezbollah to fight “proxy wars” across the Middle East.

“It persists in its nontransparent pursuit of nuclear technology and continues to fund, train and arm dangerous militia organizations,” Petraeus told the committee. “Iran’s activities have been particularly harmful in Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Afghanistan.”

Steve Emerson, author of “American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us,” said on Fox News’ “Hannity and Colmes” recently that compared to al-Qaida, “Hezbollah has got a greater network, much, much more developed around the world” — including “throughout the United States” — and that “potentially Hezbollah can wreak a lot more damage if they chose to attack the United States within the continental borders.”

The Ayatollah Khamenei’s remarks raise the specter of a Hezbollah armed with nukes by its Iranian masters.

Maybe this is why even Hillary Clinton didn’t want Barack Obama picking up that phone at 3 a.m.