If the GOP tries to sink the Iran deal, it won’t be the first time
Ronald Reagan or at least his campaign committed treason to become president, and normalizing relations with Iran may expose the whole thing.
As news of a US-Iranian nuclear deal spread like wildfire this week, the mainstream media began to ask its usual set of questions. Is the deal for real? Can we trust the Iranians? And the Republicans in Congress are going totally nuts.
Republican attempts to sabotage a Democratic presidents deal with Iran are nothing new, however. Just ask Jimmy Carter.
In the early fall of 1980, Carter thought he had reached a deal with newly elected Iranian President Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr over the release of the 52 hostages held by radical students at the American Embassy in Tehran. President Bani-Sadr was a moderate, and as he explained in an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor published on March 5, 2013, he had successfully run for president of Iran on the popular position of releasing the hostages:
President Carter was confident that with Bani-Sadrs help, he could end the embarrassing hostage crisis that had been a thorn in his political side ever since it began in November 1979. But Carter underestimated the lengths his opponent in the 1980 presidential election, California Gov. Ronald Reagan, would go to win the presidency.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/07/16/if_the_gop_tries_to_sink_the_iran_deal_it_wont_be_the_first_time/
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)hostages longer than they needed to stay because of making the deal to release them so Reagan could take the credit. That is low, think Bush sr had a lot to do with this.
CanonRay
(14,123 posts)and nobody seems to give a shit. Nobody will give a shit about Saint Ronnie's treason either. Hate to be so cynical, but there it is.
imthevicar
(811 posts)I taught My children about the treason Of St Ronny the GIT!