October 05, 2004

In the debate last week, Kerry suggested the goofy proposal, that we actually give nuclear fuel to Iran:

“I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes,” Kerry said in a critique of the Bush administration’s handling of Tehran’s nuclear program, which the Iranians claim is only for civilian purposes.

The comments came in response to a question about whether diplomacy and sanctions can resolve the “nuclear problems” with North Korea and Iran.

So Kerry says, give them nuclear fuel, and then check to verify that they didn’t use it to make an atomic bomb. Kerry’s a genius, isn’t he? But wait—intelligence reports indicate that the Iranian leadership has already said flat out it wants a nuke by January:

Khamenei told the gathering, “We must have two bombs ready to go in January or you are not Muslims,” the official said.

But Kerry wants to give them nuclear fuel and then test to see whether they used it to make nukes. What a brilliant plan.

Kerry’s strategy is two-part:

• Find sand.


• Stick head in it.

But is that all there is to it? It just so happens that:

Among Kerry’s top fund-raisers are three Iranian-Americans who have been pushing for dramatic changes in U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Say what?

Most prominent among them is Hassan Nemazee, 54, an investment banker based in New York. Nominated to become U.S. ambassador to Argentina by President Clinton in 1999, Nemazee eventually withdrew his nomination after a former partner raised allegations of business improprieties, WND previously reported.

The Kerry camp has identified Nemazee as having raised more than $100,000 for the senator’s campaign, WND reported last spring.

A Nemazee friend in Silicon Valley, Faraj Aalaei, has raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for the Kerry campaign. Aalaei has worked in the telecommunications industry for 22 years and is the chief executive officer of Centillium Communications, a publicly traded company.

Last year, Aalaei married a 35-year-old recent immigrant from Iran named Susan Akbarpour, whom the Kerry campaign also lists as having raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for the campaign.

But is there any indication that all this money has influenced Kerry’s political positions?

Kerry has embraced the entire political agenda of Akbarpour and other wealthy Iranian-Americans embracing Tehran. Those positions include:

• ending the fingerprinting of Iranian visitors to the U.S.;


• expanding “family reunion” visas to allow extended family members of Iranians living in the U.S. to immigrate here legally and in large numbers;


• offering a “dialogue” with the hard-line, terrorist-supporting clerics in Tehran;


• help Iran join the World Trade Organization.

So this would appear to indicate that not only is Kerry a stick-your-head-in-the-sand candidate; he also appears to be a bought-off —bought and paid for —candidate.