Iran-North Korea Missile Cooperation Undermines Recent Geneva Nuclear Deal

Washington Free Beacon ^ | Nov 27, 2013 | Bill Gertz

[Innovative]

Iranian collaboration with North Korea on a new rocket booster for long-range missiles undermines the deal with Tehran on its nuclear program, key Senate and House Republicans said on Tuesday.

“While the president was undertaking his secret negotiations—which Congress wasn’t informed of—he had to know Iran and North Korea were testing new engines for ballistic missiles to target the United States,” said Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.) chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces.

Reports of Iran-North Korea ICBM collaboration follow new anti-America and anti-Israel outbursts from the Islamist regime in Tehran, Cruz said.

“The Iranian regime is clearly demonstrating through word and deed that they have no intention of moderating the behavior that earned them one of the harshest international programs of economic sanctions on record,” Cruz told the Washington Free Beacon.

[Innovative]

See also:

Iran: White House Lying About Details of Nuke Deal

EXCERPT:

"Iranian officials say that the White House is misleading the public about the details of an interim nuclear agreement reached over the weekend in Geneva.

The White House released a multi-page fact sheet containing details of the draft agreement shortly after the deal was announced.

However, Iranian foreign ministry official on Tuesday rejected the White House’s version of the deal as “invalid” and accused Washington of releasing a factually inaccurate primer that misleads the American public.

“What has been released by the website of the White House as a fact sheet is a one-sided interpretation of the agreed text in Geneva and some of the explanations and words in the sheet contradict the text of the Joint Plan of Action, and this fact sheet has unfortunately been translated and released in the name of the Geneva agreement by certain media, which is not true,” Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told the Iranian press on Tuesday.

[Innovative]

One more thing from article:

“The White House confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon on Monday that the final details of the plan have yet to be worked out, meaning that Iran is not yet beholden to a six month freeze its nuclear activities.”

In other words — there is NO real deal, it’s just smoke and mirrors.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And Lurch is back home for turkey (not to mention those magic raisins.)

[ThunderSleeps]

That's odd. I wouldn't imagine missile development in any way impacts the deal capitulation in Geneva. As I understand it, Iran's missile program isn't even mentioned in the "deal" so there's no way to undermine it. Besides, "undermining" the deal implies it somehow makes it worse (for us) or better (for Iran). I honestly don't see how that could be done. You can't undermine a "deal" when there is nothing good about it to weaken or take away.

As I said before, this "deal" looks like it was drafted by the Iranians as an opening negotiating position. "Here, lets write down everything we want, giving up nothing..." Only this "deal" is apparently the result of Kerry's brilliant and hard-nosed negotiating. {snort} Kerry just got owned the same way odumber got owned by Mr. Putin, maybe worse...

[SunkenCiv]

“While the president was undertaking his secret negotiations—which Congress wasn’t informed of—he had to know Iran and North Korea were testing new engines for ballistic missiles to target the United States,” said Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.) chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces.

Yeah, he must have known. But what's your point? /s Thanks Innovative.