Who supports the Obama administration’s increasingly
unpopular Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (
JCPOA) aimed
ostensibly at curbing Iran’s nuclear program? Many of its strongest proponents come from the field of Middle East studies, which boasts
widespread animus towards the U.S. and Israel along with a cadre of apologists for the Iranian regime determined to promote ineffectual diplomacy at all costs. In the latest Campus Watch
research, appearing today at
FrontPage Magazine, CW West Coast representative Cinnamon Stillwell reports on the Mullahs’ academic cheerleaders:
Flynt Leverett, an international relations professor at Pennsylvania State University, whitewashes Iran’s terrorist proxies Hamas and Hezbollah as “constituencies” and “communities” which the Iranian regime “help[s] organize in various ways to press their grievances more effectively,” effective terrorism being, for Leverett, a laudable goal. Characterizing the regime as “a rising regional power” and “legitimate political order for most Iranians,” he urges the U.S., through the JCPOA, to “come to terms with this reality.”
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