Iran considers Obama’s threats ‘joke of the year;’ Germans wonder about Obama’s international commitments

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US President Barack Obama is having a credibility problem internationally:

March 4, 2014

Iran has mocked US President Barack Obama’s warnings that the military option is still on the table to prevent the Islamic regime’s nuclear aspirations, calling the threats “the joke of the year.”

General Saeed Masoud Jazzayeri, Aide to Basij (local Islamist militia) Affairs and General Headquarters Defense Publicity in the Iranian military, laughed at Obama’s recent warnings of possible American military intervention in the Middle East.

“The low-IQ US president and his country’s Secretary of State John Kerry speak of the effectiveness of ‘the US options on the table’ on Iran, while this phrase is mocked at and has become a joke among the Iranian nation, especially the children,” said Jazzayeri according to the Iranian semi-official Fars News Agency…http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178118

“The lesson of America’s weakness is really becoming pervasive and will spread worldwide,” said John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations. “I think Putin at this point holds all the high cards, and I think all we have to offer from President Obama is rhetoric.”

…But the United States is, in fact, obligated – at least morally – to abide by the conditions of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. At that time, Ukraine agreed to hand over 1,600 nuclear warheads after the dissolution of the Soviet Union; for the last two decades, the US has used the uranium from these warheads to power its nuclear power plants. In return, the US, the United Kingdom and Russia pledged to guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

Now that Moscow has broken that agreement, the Budapest Memorandum requires the US and the UK to act. However, the contract is not militarily binding – unlike Article 5 of the NATO treaty, for example. http://www.dw.de/alarm-grows-over-russian-moves-in-ukraine/a-17468701

While the USA is strong militarily, the issue seems to be credibility. To a degree, the USA has lost the ‘pride of its power,’ which was prophesied to happen:

14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart.
And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies.
Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 I will break the pride of your power (Leviticus 26:14-19)

The USA has refused to obey God, has had terror, and will get more terror in the future.

Now, perhaps I should add here that I am not convinced that according to the 1994 agreement the USA is obligated to militarily defend Ukraine against Russia as that presumes that the elected President of Ukraine who has asked Russia to intervene is of no relevance. But the German press report above is correct that the USA has potential obligations related to Ukraine.

That being said, neither Iran, Russia, or certain others seem to be afraid of what the USA may do. This could end up being a mistake as the USA still has options, and very well might decide to make an example out of Iran (see also Iran in Prophecy) or some other nation in the relatively near future, perhaps even partially to try to demonstrate that it is still a threat to be taken seriously.

The USA is having a serious credibility issue in Europe, however, and I believe that the situation in Ukraine may be a factor that the Europeans will point to in order to bolster their military. And that will not end up well for the USA (cf. Daniel 11:39).

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