The good folks at Germany’s Stop the Bomb campaign alerted me to this latest tidbit, which clearly shows what a double game Berlin now plays vis-à-vis Iran:
Last month, Iran’s Science, Research, and Technology ministry signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), the German Academic Exchange Service. When it comes to its dealings with Iran, DAAD acts with the blessing of Germany’s Foreign Ministry. The German agreement with Iran comes despite the fact that Kamran Daneshjoo, the Iranian Minister of Science, Research, and Technology, is on the European Union sanctions list because of his alleged involvement in Iranian nuclear warhead design and work. DAAD’s logic of academic engagement falls short when it fails to pay attention to the agenda and, in this case, expertise of its partners. Exchange in the humanities is one thing. Does DAAD really believe it is wise to provide Iranians pursuing nuclear and sensitive scientific studies with unprecedented access to German technology and instruction?
Sanctions against those involved in Iran’s nuclear program will not alone change the regime’s mind against the path it is pursuing. The logic of sanctions, however, is to isolate the regime and to demonstrate a united front. With DAAD’s latest agreement, however, the German government appears to be signaling Iran that nothing is beyond the pale, not even dabbling in nuclear weapons technology. As the Iranian regime doubles down on its genocidal rhetoric, it is unfortunate that Berlin pursues such an underhanded policy. It is embarrassing, as well, that the German government has concluded that the White House policy of leading from behind means that they need not worry about chastisement for their double-dealing.
Sad business. My daughter, then a mathematician, now a computer scientist, spent a year at the Max Planck Institute betweeen college and graduate school on a DAAD scholarship. Every time I begin feeling better about the "new Germany" some vestige of Hitler pops up to remind me of the fixed German national character. "Either at your throat or groveling at your feet," said Churchill. Julius Caesar should have annihilated the lot.
As I have a bit of German DNA flowing in my veins and this latest news makes me sick ot my stomach. Germany, as well as most of Europe, is having it's problems with islamists and yet it enters into an agreement of this type with some of the most virulent islamists on the planet. It makes no sense to my aging grey cells.
Do not forget that German businesses helped Libya build a chemical weapons plant in the 1980s and France built Saddam's nuclear facility. n nI do not contend that U.S. businesses are always clean and pure, but it does seem that Europeans have no reservations about getting into bed with anti-Semites and those who would destroy Western Civilization.
The devil is not finish yet and is active! Germany leadership had probably act silently and without the citizens support. I don't think the German's people are aware of that position of they leader's. Democracy is good but require the continuous involvement of the people, normally speaking is not the realty and leader's are not accountable!__Luigi Rosolin