How Iran is Taking Advantage of the Focus on Islamic State https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/10/iran-is-taking-advantage-of-the-focus-on-islamic-state/

October 3, 2014 | Clifford May
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Already benefiting from the carnage in Iraq and Syria, Iran will get nuclear weapons, too, unless Washington changes course. Clifford May writes:

Last year, Iran’s current president, the “moderate” Hassan Rouhani, observed: “Saying ‘Death to America’ is easy. We need to express ‘Death to America’ with action.” His most strategic action to date: pushing back Obama’s red lines on Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear-weapons capability.

Negotiations with Iran are to conclude November 24. The president would be wise to make clear that no agreement is preferable to a bad agreement. Such a decision will require courage, resolve, and recognition that negotiations, like wars, do produce winners and losers, and that it matters which the United States turns out to be.

Read more on Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/30/may-iran-takes-advantage-of-the-focus-on-isis/