Obama Offered to Ally w/Ayatollah Calling for Jihad Against America

November 6, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 7 Comments

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

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It looks like all those reports of coordination with Iran have a basis in fact after all.

Obama reportedly sent a secret letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month offering to work together against the Islamic State terror group in exchange for a deal on Tehran’s nuclear program

The letter, reported on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, was sent without informing Israel or other Middle Eastern allies, according to unnamed sources familiar with the correspondence cited by the paper.

In the missive, Obama describes a shared interest in working against the Islamic State group, which has seized wide swaths of Iraq and Syria, drawing a military response from a US-led coalition

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Refusing to deny or confirm the report, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said: “I’m not in a position to discuss private correspondence between the president and any world leader.”

Which is to say, yes it happened. Earnest constantly denies everything. This isn’t just a non-denial. It’s a non-denial of something that they expected to come out.

And this is apparently Obama’s fourth letter to the terrorist tyrant of Iran.

US allies will feel stabbed in the back, but that’s normal under this administration. More problematically it suggests that Obama is committing to expanding Iran’s orbit. While I oppose US intervention against Assad, I’m starting to wonder now whether Obama wasn’t being merely indecisive, but was avoiding a conflict to pander to Iran.

Mr. Obama’s letter also sought to assuage Iran’s concerns about the future of its close ally, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, according to another person briefed on the letter. It states that the U.S.’s military operations inside Syria aren’t targeted at Mr. Assad or his security forces.

Here’s what the Ayatollah thinks of America.

In response to a question by a parliamentarian on how long this battle will continue, Khamenei said,“Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist. … This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought. … This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and need for great strides.”

Why he could be Jeremiah Wright.