Iran flips Obama on eve of big speech

Published January 12, 2016 11:47pm ET



President Obama’s last State of the Union Address has not yet begun, but Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has already upstaged it.

By seizing two U.S. Navy patrol boats and arresting their American crews, the main terrorist organ of Iran’s government has not just committed an act of aggression against this country. It has also provided the most obvious argument against the alleged accomplishment that Obama will boast about in tonight’s speech — his nuclear deal with Iran, which he made despite robust and bipartisan congressional opposition.

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