A CLEAR UPCOMING CRISIS – AT 11:34 A.M. ET:  The Iranian threat is growing in the Mideast.  Iran's fingerprints are all over Lebanon and Iraq.  And it refuses to rein in its deadly ICBM program.   There is trouble ahead.  From AFP:   

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that negotiations on the country's missiles programme were out of the question.

"We will negotiate with no one on our weapons," said Rouhani in a press conference in Tehran.
"Iranian-made missiles have never been offensive and never will be. They are defensive and are not designed to carry weapons of mass destruction, since we don't have any," he said.

What a crock.  An ICBM is designed to carry only weapons of mass destruction.

He reiterated that the nuclear deal signed in 2015 with six world powers could not be renegotiated, despite threats from US President Donald Trump to reimpose sanctions unless fresh curbs were put on Iran's missiles and regional behaviour.

"The key to the problems between Tehran and Washington is in Washington's hands. They need to stop their threats and sanctions and pressure, and automatically the situation will improve and we can think about our future," Rouhani said.

COMMENT:  Thank you, President Obama, for putting us in this position.  We get some support from our allies in confronting Iran, but nowhere near enough.  A number of our European allies are too busy making fortunes in Iran, the world's largest sponsor of terror.

Iran will have nuclear weapons within a decade, when the limitations of the nuclear agreement end.  It will also have the missiles to carry them.

Barack Obama will be receiving honorary degrees from the admiring faculties of major universities.

February 7, 2018