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.
