If the Iranian government doesn’t frighten you, you haven’t been paying attention. The regime in Iran has been killing Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan for many years and has sworn countless times in the past 30 years to preside over the destruction of the United States. If it wasn’t for a lucky break, Washington D.C., this autumn, would have been the scene of a massive explosion detonated at a high-end restaurant, with scores and perhaps hundreds killed and maimed. The principal target of this terror attack was to be the Saudi ambassador to the United States, but as one of the plotters told another during the planning: “They want that guy (the ambassador) done (killed), if the hundred go with him f**k ’em.” The FBI suggests that several U.S. senators are also known to frequent the restaurant.

This carnage was only one of several violent attacks Iran was planning to perpetrate on American soil. It seems safe to say that President Obama’s outreach to the mullahs is not going well.