The Norwegian Nobel Committee is considering the former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, and the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to acknowledge their role in reaching the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, Reuter news agency reports.
The framework deal on Iran's nuclear program, or as President Donald Trump likes to call it: “the worst deal ever,” gave Iran access to an estimated $150 billion of previously frozen assets in foreign bank accounts in return for Islamic Republic’s wage promises to halt its nuclear weapons program. And in a brilliant masterstroke of Obama-Kerry diplomacy, the Iranian Islamic regime could self-inspect its nuclear facilities to ensure they weren’t making any nuclear weapons.
If this trio manages to win the Nobel Peace Prize it would be joining a very exclusive club that includes luminaries such as former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Barak Obama, and the Arab terrorist-turned-kleptocrat Yasser Arafat.
According to Reuters, these top architects of the Iran Deal were running as “favorites” for the prestigious prize in recognition for their efforts:
Among the favorites are parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, such as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini and John Kerry, the U.S. Secretary of State at the time.
The deal, which saw Iran agree to curbs on its nuclear program in return for the lifting of international sanctions, has been criticized by hardliners in both Tehran and Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump called it “an embarrassment to the United States” in a speech at the United Nations this month, and has suggested Washington could repudiate it.
Kerry, given his soft corner for tyrannical ideologies from the Vietnamese Communist Party to Nicaragua’s Sandinistas, will be in good company. EU Foreign Policy Czar, Mogherini, began her political career with the youth wing of the Italian Communist Party and rose to her high position as a member of the ‘Party of European Socialists.’ Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif is in the top cadre of the repressive Shia-Islamic Mullah Regime.
Meanwhile, Iran's windfall from the Nuclear Deal is becoming a big boon for Islamic Republic’s terror financing. Just this month Tehran raised the annual funding for the terrorist militia Hezbollah to $800 million, an increase of $200 million. Hezbollah, or the “Party of Allah,” is currently fighting on behalf of the Assad Regime and vows to destroy Israel, the only functioning democracy in the region. According to the details released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Iran is supplying Hezbollah “with ever more accurate missiles” to target Israel.
The Obama-Kerry Nuclear Deal, just like the Obama-Kerry Foreign Policy, has created new armed conflicts and fueled old ones across the Middle East. But considering the Nobel Prize Committee’s "excellent" picks in recent years, nothing would surprise us.
