Iran’s Revolutionaries Follow the China Model

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The American Conservative : Iran’s Revolutionaries Follow the China Model

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • January 19, 2016, 12:05 AM

 

Is the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, a RINO—a revolutionary in name only?

 

So they must be muttering around the barracks of the Iranian Republican Guard Corps today.

 

For while American hawks are saying we gave away the store to Tehran, consider what the ayatollah agreed to.

 

Last week, he gave his blessing to the return of 10 U.S. sailors who intruded into Iranian waters within hours of capture. He turned loose four Americans convicted of spying. And he gave final approval to a nuclear deal that is a national humiliation.

 

Ordered by the U.S. and Security Council to prove Iran was not lying when it said it had no nuclear weapons program—an assertion supported by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies “with