I want to talk a little bit about this fellow, Ahmed Vahidi, a man wanted by Interpol in connection with the 1994 terrorist attack on a Jewish Community Center in Argentina. Let me give you a little bit of background from that moment in time.
Clip: July 18, 1994, Buenos Aires was hit again with a Middle-Eastern Style terrorist attack. The target: the Jewish Community Center in the center of the city. That some kind of Islamic terrorists were behind this attack was obvious.
Gaffney: Eli Lake, a terrific reporter for the Washington Times, has a front page above the fold story about Ahmed Vahidi, a man widely suspected, indeed being sought by Interpol, the international agency, in connection with that murderous bombing. Turns out, Vahidi was also reputably involved in the attack on the Khobar Towers in which scores of American servicemen and women lost their lives.
And there is also reason to believe that the Al Quds force, the elite units of the Iranian revolutionary guard corps, have been intimately involve in attacks that have also killed Americans and many others in Iraq these days, and that makes for a man who I think unmistakably is hostile to the United States, unmistakably, indeed, an enemy of the United States. So what are we to make of the fact that Ahmadinejad has appointed this fellow to be the defense minister of his country? This suggests that this basically completes the takeover not only of most of the business sector of Iran but also the government of Iran by the IRGC. This means that what we are dealing with a consolidation of power by the worst elements of that regime, those that are most hostile to this country. So the question arises, what is President Obama going to do now?
Does he really believe that this kind of affront to the United States sets the stage for useful conversations with the Iranian regime? Does he cling still to the hope that engagement with these guys is going to be anything other than a game that has been played by the Iranians for 6 or 7 years with the Europeans, to the point where, in a more candid moment, one of the Iranian negotiators actually thanked the Europeans. For what? For buying the Iranian regime time. For buying it the time it needs to build the nuclear weapons with which it seeks to threaten and I fear to act on its threats, to wipe Israel off the map, and to perhaps bring about a world without America.
Now the reason I ask the question does President Obama persist in the delusion that he can do business with the Iranian regime in the face of this latest spittle that has been placed firmly on his face by the Iranian regime. I pray not, because what that will mean if indeed he is going to seek, yet again, in the face of all the evidence, the repression of the genuine reformers (those who genuinely seek to end the tyrannical, repressive regime in Tehran), despite the evidence that the bomb building is going forward, despite the evidence that terrorism is continuing, despite the evidence that Iran is actively involved in attempting to destabilize Iraq, despite all of this the president has to this point clung to this illusion. Will he still? I ask you, our Secure Freedom Radio audience, will you let him cling to this illusion or will we insist that enough is enough. I hope the answer to that is yes.
