Wiesel doesn't believe the Iranians

Nobel Peace Prize winners do not seek out war. U.S. President Barack Obama is a wonderful example. Obama, who won the prize in 2009, wants to go down in history as a stopper of wars (Afghanistan, Iraq), as the anti-Bush, and as someone who avoided conflict in Syria (until the Islamic State group somewhat ruined his plans).

Obama is still looking for a way to justify receiving that prize, and he knows he can do so by signing a nuclear deal with Iran. Whether the deal is good or bad, it won't be his problem anymore. His successors in the White House will have to cope with it -- as will we, apparently.

In the meantime, another Nobel Peace Prize winner has stepped into the fray -- one who has been around longer, is more experienced (despite not being a president), and who understands a thing or two about human evil and genocide. Eli Wiesel, the 1986 recipient of the prize and a Holocaust survivor, has been sounding the alarm over the Iranian nuclear threat for years now; he didn't just stumble across this issue because of the controversy surrounding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned speech before Congress.

In 2013, Wiesel went directly to the U.S. president and his personal friend, Obama, and to congressional leaders to ask them to intensify sanctions against Iran, in the belief that doing so was the only way to stop Iran's nuclear arms race. Wiesel, in an interview with Israel Hayom, admits he does not believe the Iranians. He also fails to understand how such a dark regime could be allowed to keep centrifuges and preserve the ability to enrich uranium, even at a low level.

From Wiesel's point of view, Iran must never be nuclear, period. And in order to prevent this, its nuclear facilities need to be dismantled. Obama feels differently. Netanyahu agrees. For this reason only did Wiesel decide to support the prime minister's endeavor to speak before Congress, even at the cost of clashing with Obama.

The Iranian nuclear issue has become a political flashpoint, which is a real shame. This coming March, global powers could sign a bad deal with Iran. This date wasn't coordinated in advance with Netanyahu or with the Central Elections Committee in Israel. Netanyahu has a date with history. No one turns down a date like that.

Does one need to be Eli Wiesel to understand this-

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