Grand Concession!

IRGC FAITHFUL (Islamic Republic's Parallel Government)

"The only way humanity will be saved is that the world comes under the domination of Islamic Government".--Ayatollah Khamenie


As I've been saying all along, the Islamic Republic covets the "Grand Bargain" that Fidel Castro of Cuba was bestowed upon by President Kennedy and short of that 'Grand Concession', they will not stop their nuclear enrichment program or terrorist sponsoring activities because that's the only thing they view as worth having as far as incentives and diplomacy are concerened.

Apparently, Ahamdinejad has been studying the "Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 with the help of his friend Fidel Castro of Cuba. And Fidel more than happy to oblige, has been given him tips on how to secure the precious "Grand Bargain" from the US. The Nuclear Standoff with Iran parallels the Cuban Missile Crisis in many ways. China Confidential explains below:

A loose alliance of influential, left-leaning pundits, politicians, and academicians are rooting for a Kennedy-style solution to the Iranian Nuclear Crisis--as in JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.But a careful, sober reading of history suggests that would be a disaster. At best, following the Cuban model, Iran would be assured permanent security--and permanent protection from regime change--in return for giving up its suspect nuclear program. But the mullahocracy would be free to pursue its formidable chemical, biological, and ballistic missile programs for decades to come.

Like Communist Cuba, Islamist Iran would become an institutionalized, internationally accepted threat to world peace. But unlike Cuba--a Soviet welfare case throughout the Cold War--oil-rich Iran would have the cash to finance its deadly schemes and dreams.

Don't expect these dire warnings to resonate among members of the American foreign policy establishment. From the State Department to the Council on Foreign Relations, Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis is ... well ... worshipped.

The popular myth of a totally successful outcome, a staple of the liberal entertainment and publishing industries, ignores an inconvenient truth: JFK's administration bungled the Cuban file from the get-go. Just days before the crisis began, National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy ridiculed reports of suspicious activity on Cuba--i.e. eyewitness accounts of deployment of Soviet-supplied nuclear-tipped missiles. Appearing on national television, Bundy branded the information that Cuban exiles had been giving the State Department and CIA for months as mere "refugee rumors."

Said Bundy: "Nothing in Cuba presents a threat to the United States. There's no likelihood that the Soviets or Cubans would try and install an offensive capability in Cuba."

The following day, Kennedy himself declared: "There's fifty-odd-thousand Cuban refugees in this country, all living for the day when we go to war with Cuba. They're the ones putting out this kind of stuff."

So much for one of best and the brightest--and his brilliant monarch.

In the end, the United States and the Soviet Union managed to back away from the brink and avert a possible nuclear war. The Missile Crisis ended when Moscow backed down and removed the weapons it had secretly installed in Cuba.

As we now know, however, the secret agreement between Kennedy and Soviet Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev forbade any invasion of Cuba--not just by the US, but also by any other group or nation in the Western Hemisphere. Thousands of Soviet troops and KGB officers already in Cuba were allowed to remain on the island, bolstering an anti-American regime just 90 miles from Florida.

Shortly after the missiles were removed, Washington, in accord with its covert deal with the Soviet Union, pulled US missiles out of Turkey. Following Kennedy's assassination, US President Lyndon Johnson reaffirmed Washington's hands-off-Havana pledge.

The difference this time is that Fidel's main ambition and objectives for his state were not world domination by an Islamic Government.