Biden’s handlers considering giving Iran $1,000,000,000 as show of goodwill

In a sane world, the “Death-to-America” chanting mullahs would be the ones who would have to show goodwill, but this is not a sane world.

“If it demonstrates the kind of good faith that can cause reciprocal good faith from the Iranian side, then it is potentially a good step forward,” says the unaptly-named Thomas Countryman. This is an indication of how disastrously naive and ill-informed our foreign policy “experts” really are. If the good Countryman and his colleagues understood even the basics about Islam, from Islamic sources rather than soothing propaganda for non-Muslim Westerners, they would know that any show of goodwill by the U.S. will be seen in Tehran as weakness to take advantage of, not as a gesture of good faith to be reciprocated. But Countryman and his ilk are unteachable in this regard, for they would regard the facts of the case as “Islamophobic.”

“US weighing $1b in humanitarian aid for Iran as a show of goodwill – CNN,” Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2021 (thanks to the Geller Report):

The United States is considering the option of unfreezing $1 billion in Iranian funds to be used for humanitarian aid purposes as a possible goodwill gesture in the attempt to reach a new nuclear deal, CNN reported on Thursday, citing three sources who had been briefed on the internal deliberations with the Islamic Republic.

According to the report, the aid will be transferred to a Swiss Channel, called Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement, which is designed to bring humanitarian aid to the citizens of Iran without violating US sanctions.

“If it demonstrates the kind of good faith that can cause reciprocal good faith from the Iranian side, then it is potentially a good step forward,” Thomas Countryman, who served as US assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation from 2011 to 2017, told CNN.

Iran, on its end, continues to instead demand sanction relief in order to comply with a new agreement, according to the report….