U.S. Admiral Sees No Change in Iranian Behavior by Adam Schreck, Associated Press Interview
Iran's landmark nuclear deal with world powers has done little to stop the country from pursuing activities beyond its shores that the U.S. considers destabilizing, the U.S. naval commander charged with securing the waters around the Arabian Peninsula said Sunday.
Vice Adm. Kevin Donegan, commander of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, made the comments during an interview with The Associated Press at the opening day of the Dubai Airshow…
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Nor has this Iranian behavior changed since the Iran Deal.......
EU rolls up Iranian hacking group--they answered to the IRGC.......
Iranian hacker group "Rocket Kitten" targeted Saudi royals, Israeli nuclear scientists & NATO officials:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...ymrvj1O2eZ9.97 …
There is a very old Chinese saying back to say Sun Tzu--a tiger never changes his strips.
The Obama Administration was driven by what I call the Harvard syndrome--meaning intellecturally I can fool myself into believing for my legacy that in fact the tiger can change his stripes if he so wills it.
Obama forgot along the way the concept that drives Iran even today....
"revoluntionary Islam" called into being in 1979 and ardently defended by the IRGC.
So what did the Vice Adm. really say--think his comments were being focused at the Obama WH, the entire 700 Person NSC, and his DNI--more than Iran.
Example--the Iran recently stated that in their demo shouts of "death to America" did not really mean litzerally killing all Americans--it just was focused at "killing the American FP".
If Obama, his NSC and the DNI did not fully understand what the Iranians mean by that I have a bridge to sell them located in Angola.
Was a change in Iranian regional interests expected? If so, where?
Was it expected that Iran would back away from its current relationships with Iraq? Syria? Lebanon?
Was it expected that Iran would yield to a U.S.-led security order in the Persian Gulf and region as a whole?
Surely no objective observer expected any of the above to be realized with JCPOA.
So far, the biggest change since JCPOA has come come not from Iran but from the United States, in accepting the inclusion of Iran (without preconditions) in Syrian conflict resolution talks recently held at Vienna. The biggest surprise of those talks came in the form of the final communique, which listed nearly every position maintained for some time now, by Iran. Might be said it read as if Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif had personally written the document.