WarSclerotic

Israel began the ordeal of confronting Iran’s nuclear program alone, and it appears that is how it will end it.

The very imperfect “interim deal” signed in Geneva; the international conglomerates already seeing the dollar signs and reserving hotel rooms in Tehran; smiley-faced Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s interviews to the press, now being broadcast after the deal was signed; and primarily the feelers sent out between Iran and the Gulf States, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia — which all point to one thing: Iran will be nuclear, and that this is first and foremost our problem.

It would be so tempting to blame the Israeli government for the latest series of events, but it is impossible to complain about the efforts exerted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which began as far back as his first stint as prime minister in 1996 to sound the alarm over the threat of a nuclear Iran. There are even those who argued he was doing too much.

And he was not the only one. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin rushed to China to warn Beijing before helping to build the reactor at Isfahan. That was in 1993.

The interim agreement signed with Iran has many limitations, but the most problematic of them all stipulates that the interim deal will be valid over a period of time to be decided by the sides, and when this period is over, the Iranian nuclear program will be received similarly to any other country that has nuclear weapons and which is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

In other words, Iran, even as it is led by this dark regime, will be able to install an unlimited amount of centrifuges and of course produce enriched uranium without violating the agreement. That is to say, the world has no more qualms with the ayatollah regime. It is free, down the road, to receive its certificate of validation.

The amazing part of the Geneva agreement — regardless of whether it is interim or final — is how quickly the world is moving today to bring Iran into the family of nations. This is what it looks like when the world in general and the White House in particular act according to their heart’s desires instead of the realities on the ground.

It is tempting to say “sorry that we were right,” but because of the gravity of the situation it is more appropriate to say “what a shame we weren’t wrong.”