Jack Keane on Iran Talks: ‘This Is a Mirage,’ It Goes Back to Ronald Reagan, They Blew Up Two Embassies

RUSH EXCERPT:
KEANE: "Well, this is a mirage, that they are so successful they’re creating. You’ve done it, it began with Jimmy Carter all through Reagan all the way up through the current administration. And their narrative is simply this. They create a narrative that we are the diplomats and we’re more moderate than the hard liners that run the regime and you’ve got to help us motivate and change the hard liners somewhat. And we do. This is the key point. We want to co-exist with you, so let us work this together. And every negotiating team believes, wow, we’re dealing with people that are much more reasonable that we dealt with in the past."

BAIER: "We’re going back decades here."

KEANE: "Going back to Jimmy Carter, we extended a hand to the regime that just took over, they stiffed the and stormed the embassy, going back to Ronald Reagan when they released the hostages on the day of his inauguration. He and his team thought they could work with the Iranians, they blew up two embassies and the barracks. The list goes on and on and-. These moderates who they believe are reasonable report to the guys running the regime, they are as committed to the goals of the regime as the so-called hard liners. There’s just one, and we’ve got to understand this, and every new administration has to find out this awful truth. And the president knows it. Oh, these guys are crazy. They lie, they cheat. And that is the truth of it. Even though they’re sophisticated diplomats. They appear urbane and appear to be very reasonable and just help us work with the hard liners."