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for a cool cat like Obama not to be in that club?
I suspect not, as he harbored some sentimentality towards the Islamic Republic, having stated in his first letter to its leader, as well as in his taped video message on the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, that he sought normalization with the state sponsor of terror, a long step beyond hoping for better relations with Iran someday, as you might do in a holiday greeting.
Yeah, look, to understand, leaders lead.
And by the way, Obama was leading.
Obama was leading.
There's practically not an Islamist on planet Earth that he didn't coddle, embrace, and send money to.
And by the way, when he was brand new in office, he flew to โ as president, he flew to Cairo, to the University of Cairo, and he gave a speech where he said Iran has a right, and he used the word right, to nuclear weapons.
Nuclear technology.
He actually didn't say weapons.
He said nuclear technology.
That was absurd.
And so his claiming to be reluctant, I think, is a brazen lie.
This is his ideology.
And by the way, it came to full flower under the Biden White House.
And I think the history for a lot of folks that may not remember what was happening, look, 2009 was 16, 17 years ago.
It was a long time ago.
Yeah.
Let me jump forward because the question then is, OK, what's different now?
And let me jump forward to this article.
I think it's a really insightful article.