“In 2005, when publishers for whom I had written top-selling books
turned down my proposal to write a book warning of the dangers Iran’s
nuclear program posed, only Joseph Farah and WND had the foresight and
courage to publish a book considered at the time to be enormously
controversial,” Corsi said.
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“Few
people 10 years ago wanted to believe Iran’s nuclear program could be a
threat not only to Israel, but to the region and the world.”
In “Atomic Iran,” Corsi predicted the following:
- Iran would game all nuclear negotiations to gain time, while
secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons program, calculating Iranian
negotiators were sufficiently skillful to fool the Western nations,
including the United States and the United Nations’ International Atomic
Agency into believing the lie that the advanced enrichment of uranium
was for peaceful purposes that could be monitored successfully amid an
agreed-upon schedule of IAEA sanctions.
- Then-Sen. John F. Kerry would lead Democratic Party politicians
lured by campaign contributions to enter into a “grand bargain”
negotiated with Iran, similar to the nuclear-fuel-for-peaceful-purposes
gambit North Korea induced President Jimmy Carter to enter. Corsi
predicted the same result, that like North Korea, Iran would utilize all
negotiated concessions to advance its clandestine nuclear weapons
program.
- Ultimately, the United States would abandon Israel, leaving the
Jewish state no alternative but to launch a military attack on Iran’s
nuclear program. The Iranian nuclear program would bring nuclear war to
the Middle East, either because Iran would develop and use a nuclear
weapon against Israel, or because Israel in defending itself would
trigger a regional war escalating into a nuclear conflict with
nuclear-armed defenders of Iran, including Russia.
“I hope and pray my prediction on nuclear war is wrong,” Corsi said.
“But my other predictions have played out over the last 10 years with a
degree of accuracy that frightens me.”
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Corsi noted that 10 years ago, there was no thought Kerry would one day be secretary of state.
“But I was right, down to naming Iranian-American Hassan Nemazee as
an agent of the mullahs who served in campaign finance positions both
for Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004 and for Hillary Clinton in
2008 and is today in federal prison for having violated federal banking
laws.”
Corsi said Netanyahu is correct, that despite the Obama
administration’s resolve that the cornerstone of its foreign policy
would be a negotiated solution to Iran’s nuclear program, Kerry is no
closer to such a deal today than the administration was when Obama took
office in 2009.
Corsi pointed out many passages from “Atomic Iran” mirrored points
Netanyahu made in his historic speech to Congress Tuesday morning.
“The mullahs [in Iran] have pursued nuclear weapons clandestinely
with a clear intent to ignore their obligations under the
Non-Proliferation Treaty and deceive the United Nations’ International
Atomic Energy Agency,” Corsi wrote on page 26. “Iran continues to
display the characteristics of a rogue regime actively pursuing nuclear
weapons, willing to both defy and deceive attempts at international
control. Clearly stated, Iran has been playing the world for a fool.”
Netanyahu said: “The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, said
again yesterday that Iran still refuses to come clean about its military
nuclear program. Iran was also caught – caught twice, not once, twice –
operating secret nuclear facilities in Natanz and Qom, facilities that
inspectors didn’t even know existed.”
He continued: “Right now, Iran could be hiding nuclear facilities
that we don’t know about, the U.S. and Israel. As the former head of
inspections for the IAEA said in 2013, he said, ‘If there’s no
undeclared installation today in Iran, it will be the first time in 20
years that it doesn’t have one.’”
Netanyahu emphasized Iran “has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted.”
Corsi wrote of Hitler in describing the hatred the radical Islamic mullahs and their sympathizers in Iran have toward the Jews.
“Hitler revealed in ‘Mein Kampf’ that he intended to commit genocide
on the Jews of Germany,” Corsi wrote on pages 40-41. “Many did not take
him seriously; the thought was simply too extreme, too mad. Yet he
communicated his true intentions, even if only those who knew how to
listen to disturbed personalities believed him at the time.
“So, too, the mad mullahs who rule Iran have been clearly telling the
world that they intend to use their missiles, and when they have them,
their nuclear weapons,” Corsi continued.
“Iran’s President Muhammad Khatami speaks in radical terms. ‘Haven’t
the Jews and Christians achieved their progress by means of toughness
and repression?’ he asks. Take him seriously, for he has a strategy
drawn to destroy Jewish and Christian civilization, regardless how
fourteenth century the whole discussion seems. ‘Our missiles are now
ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions
arrive from the Leader Ali Khamenei, we will launch our missiles at
their cities and installations.’”
Similarly, Nethanyahu pointed to the statements of Hezbollah’s leader in Lebanon.
“For those who believe that Iran threatens the Jewish state, but not
the Jewish people, listen to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah,
Iran’s chief terrorist proxy,” Netanyahu warned. “He said: If all the
Jews gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of chasing them down
around the world.”
But Iran’s regime, he said, is “not merely a Jewish problem, any more than the Nazi regime was merely a Jewish problem.”
“The 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis were but a fraction of the
60 million people killed in World War II. So, too, Iran’s regime poses a
grave threat, not only to Israel, but also the peace of the entire
world. To understand just how dangerous Iran would be with nuclear
weapons, we must fully understand the nature of the regime.”
Netanyahu also showed understanding of the oppression the Iranian people have suffered.
“The people of Iran are very talented people,” Netanyahu
distinguished. “They’re heirs to one of the world’s great civilizations.
But in 1979, they were hijacked by religious zealots – religious
zealots who imposed on them immediately a dark and brutal dictatorship.
“That year, the zealots drafted a constitution, a new one for Iran,”
Netanyahu continued. “It directed the revolutionary guards not only to
protect Iran’s borders, but also to fulfill the ideological mission of
jihad. The regime’s founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, exhorted his followers
to ‘export the revolution throughout the world.’
“I’m standing here in Washington, D.C., and the difference is so
stark,” Netanyahu concluded. “America’s founding document promises life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Iran’s founding document pledges
death, tyranny and the pursuit of jihad. And as states are collapsing
across the Middle East, Iran is charging into the void to do just that.”
Corsi and Netanyahu both invoked the theme “never again” in describing Israel’s resolve to defend itself.
“Israel has sworn ‘Never Again!’ Corsi wrote on page 218. “Reasoning
that the Holocaust occurred in part because European Jews did not
resist, the Israelis have determined that never again will Israel be
passive in the face of its enemies.
“Since the 1940s, first strikes have characterized Israel’s foreign
policy,” Corsi continued. “The highly effective Israeli first-strike air
assault on June 5, 1967, destroyed the entire Egyptian air force on the
ground at the start of the Six-Day War. But more parallel to the
urgency surrounding the situation of Iran’s having nuclear weapons is
the June 1981 air attack that took out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor.”
Speaking to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in the House gallery
Tuesday, Netanyahu said, “Elie, your life and work inspires to give
meaning to the words, ‘never again.’
“And I wish I could promise you, Elie, that the lessons of history
have been learned. I can only urge the leaders of the world not to
repeat the mistakes of the past,” he continued. “Not to sacrifice the
future for the present; not to ignore aggression in the hopes of gaining
an illusory peace.
“But I can guarantee you this, the days when the Jewish people
remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over,”
he asserted.
“We are no longer scattered among the nations, powerless to defend
ourselves. We restored our sovereignty in our ancient home. And the
soldiers who defend our home have boundless courage. For the first time
in 100 generations, we, the Jewish people, can defend ourselves.
“That is why, as prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more
thing,” he stressed. “Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will
stand.”
Corsi warned against making deals with Iran, writing on page 83,
“There is ample proof that the mullahs are not to be trusted, no matter
how many times they give their word.”
Netanyahu was equally skeptical.
Just as Corsi concluded in his book, Netanyahu declared restrictions
on Iran’s nuclear program should not be lifted unless Tehran stops its
threats to annihilate the Jewish state, its aggression against its
neighbors in the Middle East and its support of terrorism around the
world.
