Obama: GOP Wants To Ally With Iranian ‘Hardliners’

…
White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggested that the GOP is planning to ignite war with Iran’s anti-Western Islamic theocracy. ”The rush to war, or at least the rush to the military option that many Republicans are advocating is not at all in the best interests of the United States,” Earnest told reporters.

The administration’s claim that GOP critics “are the same as hardliners in Iran is preposterous,” said Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Iran’s “hardliners are the people who are illegally procuring nuclear material for their program, are killing people in Lebanon, in Syria and in Iraq, and are violent thugs,” he said.

“Our ‘hardliners’ — so to speak — are sending a letter to the foreign minister of Iran [while] it is the administration that is allying with these people,” he said.

Obama’s complaint about the GOP letter “is pretty rich … [because his deal] would effectively ignore Iran’s other activities beyond the illicit nuclear procurement,” such as its sponsorship of terrorism in many countries, Schanzer said.

There’s “little to no evidence that that Iran is going to change. … It is a genocidal regime,” he said.
…
Read full article here.