Posted on 05/14/2015 11:54:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama has defended the impending nuclear deal with Iran by promising Americans that there will be automatic snap-back provisions to restore sanctions automatically if Iran cheats on its obligations: If Iran violates the deal, sanctions can be snapped back into place, he said in April. On Wednesday, Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told Bloomberg News that there would be no such provisions: There can be no automaticity, none whatsoever, he said.
The Russian rebuke came in the same week that Secretary of State John Kerry was in Russia to meet directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin himself (after Kerry promised last year to go to the hilt to isolate Russia for its invasion of Ukraine).
Previously, members of the Obama administration had promised that Russia could be persuaded to agree to snap-backs, or that a new mechanism could be created to avoid a Russian or Chinese veto at the UN Security Council.
The Obama administrations case for the Iran deal largely rests on the snap-back provision
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If true...Bwahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
This isn’t new. The White House was already trying to make arrangements so that Russia and China can’t block new sanctions at the UN.
Obama does not know how to tell the truth. Kerry has been a communist since he cut a deal with the VC and NVA in Paris. Anyone who trusts Kerry is out of touch with reality.
Poor Obammy. He can’t even count on the support of the people he’s trying to sell us down the river to.
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