Mullahs’ Military Shopping List

Published July 21, 2015 4:53pm ET



What will Iran do with the big “signing bonus” – perhaps as much as $150 billion – coming its way thanks to the nuclear pact negotiated by the Obama administration?

The current debate revolves around how much the regime will spend on its suffering citizenry – National Security Adviser Susan Rice asserts that “for the most part” the windfall will be spent on “the Iranian people and their economy” – and how much on “bad behavior in the region” of the sort the world has come to know so well: support for the Assad regime, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Shiites in Iraq and around the Gulf, its proxies in Afghanistan, and terrorist operations.  And it’s a good bet that, when Tehran decides finally to go nuclear, it will be a short sprint for which they will have been prepared well.

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