Iran’s White House Enabler

Last week’s revelation that ex-Ambassador Thomas Pickering pushed the Iran nuke deal while secretly working for Boeing makes you wonder: Were any of the deal’s backers not paid for their support?

Boeing now stands to make $25 billion selling planes to Tehran. That’s a nice return on its investment in Pickering, a respected ex-diplomat who has worked for the aircraft-maker for years.

Pickering played a key role in drumming up support for the nuke deal that made Boeing’s sale possible. But neither he nor the company bothered to disclose their relationship at the time.

Nor was he the only one hawking the deal while secretly being paid by its supporters: A key White House ally, the Ploughshares Fund, also funneled piles of cash to friendly media. NPR, for one, got $100,000 to “report” on negotiations with Iran.

The cash helped feed the “echo chamber” that Obama aide Ben Rhodes cited as key to rallying support for the pact.

And now Team Obama’s fighting a p.r. war to keep the deal alive. Administration officials, for example, admit that uranium particles found at Iran’s Parchin military base likely came from a nuclear-weapons program there.

The particles, unearthed by UN watchdogs last year, are the first physical proof of nuke-building efforts. But Team Obama buried the news of the find and pooh-poohs its significance.

Uranium at the site by itself doesn’t “definitively prove anything,” an Obama aide told The Wall Street Journal.

Well, maybe not “definitively.” But Iran earlier removed truckloads of soil from the site — a clear attempt to hide evidence. It won’t let the UN folks interview its scientists. And under the nuke deal, inspectors can’t even collect more samples.

Fact is, even Obama & Co. say they believe Iran tried to build nukes — meaning it has blatantly lied all along. Yet in selling the accord, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry vowed they’d force Iran to “come clean.” Guess the mullahs weren’t the only ones who lied.

There’s more: Kerry’s now telling the world it’s safe to resume trade with the terror-sponsoring mullahs — infuriating the Treasury Department, which warns that sanctions remain in effect. And The Washington Free Beacon reports that State is pushing to renege on a promise to ban Iran from the US financial system.

Meanwhile, Obama has refused to punish Russia for illegally selling Iran S-300 surface-to-air missiles — despite his authority to use sanctions under a 1992 law. An aide at State told the Beacon the president had yet to decide how to respond to the sale — or whether to respond at all.

Obama & Co. used every sleazy trick in the book to get this rotten deal through. Now, to keep it alive, he’s breaking every vow he made about it.