Friday, September 4, 2015

IRAN-USA-Gov. Tom Ridge: In dealing with Iran, hope is not a strategy




Beneath U.S. President Barack Obama’s "outrageous claim" that those who oppose the recent nuclear deal with the regime in Iran are actually voting for war lies a "pattern of self-deception and false hope," writes former Gov. Tom Ridge.



"This month marks the 27th anniversary of what Amnesty International has called the 'prison massacre' in Iran. Tens of thousands of political prisoners were arbitrarily executed in the span of a few months in 1988 in what has become one of the worst post-World War II instances of crimes against humanity. Yet, instead of seeing the real victims of the Iranian regime, Washington finds itself keenly in tune with the ayatollahs’ 'grievances,'” Gov. Ridge wrote on Friday in TheHill.com

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