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Iran Defector: Regime Needs Nukes to Avoid Collapse -Kerry, Obama Being ‘Outmaneuvered’
Secretary of State John Kerry
Leo Hohmann / WND
An Iranian defector and former top shariah lawyer now living in Texas says the Iranian regime is attempting to back the Obama administration into a diplomatic corner: Either accept a nuclear deal that is so one-sided that it will allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon within the next couple of years, or walk away from the bargaining table with no deal.
Daniel Akbari is a former criminal defense lawyer who argued death-penalty cases before the Iranian Supreme Court. He is intimately familiar with the way the regime’s supreme religious leaders think.
Daniel Akbari
Akbari defected to the U.S. almost seven years ago after coming here on a student visa.
“I became Christian and that made living in Iran worse,” said Akbari, who has appeared in radio interviews with conservative talkers Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. He has also authored two books about jihad and shariah law. His latest is “Honor Killing: A Professional’s Guide to Sexual Relations and Ghayra Violence from the Islamic Sources.”
He spoke with WND in an hour-long exclusive interview.
Akbari said the Iranian regime wants to prove to its people that it at least tried to negotiate a deal that would allow for the relaxation of economic sanctions, which combined with lower oil prices have had a crippling effect. If the sanctions continue, Akbari said he sees the regime collapsing within two to three years.
“They don’t want an uprising. They want to have their people behind their backs. So their message is, ‘Yes, we care about your economy but that’s not in our hands,’” Akbari told WND in near-perfect English. “They will say, ‘You should not trust the U.S. or the West, they are playing with us, so if you are forcing us to stop enriching uranium you are wrong because you are not going to get anything in return from the West.’”
Akbari said he doesn’t expect a deal to be signed.
“It’s a psychological chess game, that’s why we should not expect any deal. No such thing, because they are not going to stop dreaming about the bomb,” Akbari said. “That is the only way the regime can survive. They want to have the bomb because they know their policies are harsh enough and crazy enough that everyone is against them. So they have to pursue a strong military and the nuclear bomb.”
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/iran-defector-regime-needs-nukes-to-avoid-collapse/
