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Obama admin assures foreign governments they won’t be penalized for doing business with Iran
Atlas Shrugs ^ | 8/20/15 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 08/20/2015 3:49:08 AM PDT by markomalley

Has Obama registered as an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran yet? Why not? What would he be doing differently if he were one?

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“Senators: Obama Admin Hiding Secret Iran Deal Letters,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 19, 2015:

Two leading U.S. senators are calling on the Obama administration to release secret letters to foreign governments assuring them that they will not be legally penalized for doing business with the Iranian government, according to a copy of a letter sent Wednesday to the State Department and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Sens. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) disclosed in the letter to the State Department that U.S. lawmakers have been shown copies of several letters sent by the Obama administration to the Chinese, German, French, and British governments assuring them that companies doing business with Iran will not come under penalty.

The Obama administration is purportedly promising the foreign governments that if Iran violates the parameters of a recently inked nuclear accord, European companies will not be penalized, according to the secret letters.

Congress became aware of these promises during closed-door briefings with the Obama administration and through documents filed by the administration under a law requiring full disclosure of all information pertaining to the accord.

The issue of sanctions on Iran has become a major issue on Capitol Hill in the weeks since the Obama administration agreed to a deal that permits Iran to enter the international community in exchange for temporarily constraining its nuclear program.

Iran will receive more than $150 billion in sanctions relief as part of the deal and many of its military branches will be removed from international sanctions designations.

“The documents submitted by the Administration to Congress include non-public letters that you sent to the French, British, German, and Chinese governments on the consequences of sanctions snap-back,” Kirk and Rubio wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry.

“These letters appear to reassure these foreign governments that their companies may not be impacted if sanctions are re-imposed in response to Iranian violations of the agreement,” they claim. “While Administration officials have claimed that this is not the case, we think it is important for the American public to be able to read your assurances to foreign governments for themselves as their elected representatives review this deal in the coming weeks.”

Kirk and Rubio are demanding that the Obama administration release these letters to the public so that the full nature of the White House’s backroom dealings are made known.

“We therefore request the Administration to publicly release these letters, which are not classified, so that the full extent of the Administration’s non-public assurances to European and Chinese governments can be discussed openly by Congress and analyzed by impartial outside experts,” they write.

“Given the conflicting interpretations hinted at by the deal’s various stakeholders, it would also ease congressional review of the deal if you were to receive assurances from the other members of the P5+1 about the guidance they will provide to companies about the inherent risks of investing in Iran due to Iran’s ongoing support for terrorism and use of its financial system for illicit activities and the potential for sanctions to snap back if Iran violates the nuclear agreement,” the letter states.

As Iranian companies and government entities are removed from sanctions lists, they will be permitted to do business on the open market. A number of governments, including the Russia and Italy, have already expressed interest in partnering with Iran.

U.S. lawmakers remain concerned that if Iran violates the nuclear accord, sanctions will not be reimposed in a meaningful way.

“The conditions under which foreign investment in Iran would proceed under the nuclear agreement remain unclear,” Kirk and Rubio wrote. “On July 23, 2015, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that companies that have invested in Iran would ‘not be able to continue doing things that are in violation of the sanctions’ if sanctions snap back.”

“Foreign investment in Iran will involve long-term contracts in many cases, however, and some interpretations of the Iran agreement indicate these contracts might be protected from the snap-back of sanctions by a so-called ‘grandfather clause,’” they write.

Under the terms of the agreement, sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a paramilitary force known to commit acts of terrorism across the globe, will be lifted.

A multi-billion dollars financial empire belonging to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei also will be removed from sanctions lists, according to the parameters of the deal.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; US: Florida; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cryptomuslim; dhimmitude; election2016; florida; illinois; iran; iraniannukes; israel; lebanon; marcorubio; markkirk; pamelageller; pamgeller; surrendermonkey; waronterror

1 posted on 08/20/2015 3:49:09 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

They’ll probably be *rewarded* by the 0 administration, in one way or another.


2 posted on 08/20/2015 4:13:39 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: markomalley
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3 posted on 08/20/2015 4:13:51 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: markomalley
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4 posted on 08/20/2015 4:15:21 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: markomalley

What an ass we have for a president and I don’t mean a donkey! He is either stupid or evil or BOTH!


5 posted on 08/20/2015 4:17:05 AM PDT by buffyt (The devil's favorite sin: pride. Favorite trick: convincing us he doesn't exist.)
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To: markomalley

Will none dare call it treason?


6 posted on 08/20/2015 4:20:49 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: markomalley

“Has Obama registered as an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran yet? Why not?”

Because he doesn’t really give a rat’s rear about them, or their religion. What he’s doing is helping his comrades in Moscow. Iran is a pawn of Russia. Russia seeks to make a major comeback. Obama is doing all he could to insure they achieve their new world order goals, which he shares: weaker US, stronger Russia and China.


7 posted on 08/20/2015 4:24:24 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: luvbach1

The accomplices in the GOPe will not dare try to bust the traitor.

He or his handler is too smart of a politician to try a gun grab, which is what this once great notion was founded upon.


8 posted on 08/20/2015 4:25:28 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: luvbach1

Let’s call it what it is - Its a lift the sanctions deal pretending to be an arms control deal. Just like in Egypt and Syria, just like fleeing in Iraq and every other muslim country O took the side of the Muslims. All he wanted was for Iran to dom the region so the US could never project power there again. It is a lift the sanctions deal not an arms deal.


9 posted on 08/20/2015 4:26:12 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: buffyt

Definitely both.


10 posted on 08/20/2015 4:40:49 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

“Has Obama registered as an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran yet? Why not?”


Excellent question. Because he is above the law.


11 posted on 08/20/2015 4:44:08 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: major-pelham

All he wanted was for Iran to dom the region so the US could never project power there again. It is a lift the sanctions deal not an arms deal.


I don’t think that’s all he wanted. He clearly wants Iran to destroy Israel too.

Guess this is what happens when you elect a security-risk as President.


12 posted on 08/20/2015 4:45:48 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: markomalley

King Barack I doesn’t need Congress to pass his Iran Bailout and Bomb Plan. He can just issue edicts on his own. Congress is as useless as teats on a boar. Everyone knows that.


13 posted on 08/20/2015 4:50:44 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: major-pelham

In your post #9, a very astute take on “the deal.”


14 posted on 08/20/2015 4:53:58 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

Odumbo once again offends THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by helping Iran. That illegal bastard needs to be sent to prison or to hell.


15 posted on 08/20/2015 6:11:41 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: markomalley

If Obama or Kerry were actually competent at making deals, they’d be as rich as Trump.


16 posted on 08/20/2015 6:20:52 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ETL
From AsiaTimesOnline
Feb 26, 2008

"Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...

Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.

There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. ..."

Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
by David Horowitz

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17 posted on 08/20/2015 6:30:02 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: markomalley
Obama is an agent of Iran

CORRECTION:

Valerie Jarrett id an agent of Iran

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Sens. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) disclosed in the letter to the State Department that U.S. lawmakers have been shown copies of several letters sent by the Obama administration to the Chinese, German, French, and British governments assuring them that companies doing business with Iran will not come under penalty. The Obama administration is purportedly promising the foreign governments that if Iran violates the parameters of a recently inked nuclear accord, European companies will not be penalized, according to the secret letters.

18 posted on 08/20/2015 7:12:21 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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