Obama held hostage: How Iran’s using the nuke deal as license to go wild

New York Post ^ | November 7, 2015 | Post Editorial Board

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry were convinced their one-sided nuclear deal would lead to better relations with Iran, but it’s already doing the reverse.

Tehran has taken two more Americans hostage just this month — and followed up with a massive cyberattack on the US government, especially the State Department’s Office of Iranian Affairs.

The kicker: Iran is holding the nuke deal hostage — threatening to junk it if Obama tries to punish the country for its fresh outrages.

[Truth29]

This article, like too many, assumes that Obama had good, if misdirected, intentions. There is no discussion that he is actively aiding the Islamic terrorists in their war against the West and things are turning out just like he wanted.

[ETL]

Trump: Iran Deal Requires U.S. Protecting Iran in Event of Israeli Strike

by Jacob Kornbluh
Sept 2, 2015

In a phone interview with CNN Tuesday evening, Trump claimed that there's "something in the Iran deal" that "people don't understand" saying if someone attacks Iran, "we have to come to their defense."

"Does that include Israel?" Trump asked. "And most people say yes, they don't have an exclusion for Israel. So if Israel attacks Iran, according to that deal, I believe, the way it reads, unless they have a codicil or they have something to it, that we have to fight with Iran against Israel." ..."

Trump was most probably referring to language highlighted by the opponents of the deal. On page 142, the deal includes a clause that states, "Co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran's ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems."

Washington-based Center for Security Policy asserted that Annex III appears "to commit the United States and other world powers to the defense of Iran's nuclear program."

http://jpupdates.com/2015/09/02/trump-iran-deal-requires-u-s-protecting-iran-in-event-of-israeli-strike/
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Aug 2015...

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Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran's Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran's Quds Force commander - their chief exporter of terror - and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ..."

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran's proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ..."

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they've seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants - some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/
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Pro-Hezbollah Paper: Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Form Alliance

Sept 23, 2015

A prominent pro-Hezbollah newspaper in Lebanon reported Tuesday that Russia and the terrorist organization have formed an alliance and will fight together in Syria. "The parties to the alliance are the states of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, with Lebanon's Hezbollah as the fifth party,"

Al-Akhbar Editor in Chief Ibrahim al-Amin wrote. The pact would be called the "4+1 alliance", a pun based on the P5+1 that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran based in Lebanon and Moscow has been working with Tehran to save Bashar al-Assad's regime, even sending men and weapons to Syria.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/22/report-russia-partners-with-hezbollah.html
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From Real Clear Politics, Sept 10, 2015...

"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.

In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.

The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/iran_deal_throws_sparks_on_mideast_tinderbox_128034.html

[SpaceBar]

he is actively aiding the Islamic terrorists in their war against the West

emphasis mine...

[Logical me]

This dim shi! King Obama and Kerry are the most ignorant jackasses in America. King Obama is a communists black Muslim terrorists and he support the destruction of America.

[bestintxas]

This is but an inkling of what Obama will do once he leaves his current position and becomes an international celebrity, touring the world, sanctioning the continued diminution of the USA, all at US taxpayers’ expense.

It will get much, much worse.

[Parley Baer]

Has Iran received the $150 billion yet?

[oldtech]

Sure glad I had no part of making that particular decision.

[Vision]

Obama wanted to empower Iran to destroy Israel. Kerry is too dumb to know which way is up.

[Patriot Babe]

“Obama held hostage”

Must we hand over a ransom?

[Old Yeller]

How is HomObama held hostage? He’s on the side of the enemy. U.S. Citizens are the hostages.

[ETL]

Has Iran received the $150 billion yet?

I don't know. Perhaps you can find the answer here:
http://freebeacon.com/?s=iran+deal+billion&submit=Search

[SunkenCiv]

"Don't Be Ridiculous. The Whole Thing Was My Idea! Death to America!"

[lewislynn]

Iran can thank the likes of pinheads like Ted Cruz for the Corker vote too.

[SJackson]

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[Slings and Arrows]

I suspect that the “Idiot vs. Scoundrel” dispute about Barky will go long after we are both buried. Personally, I favor both.

[monkeyshine]

The premise of the deal is so stupid it begs all other questions. The premise is that if we agree to their nukes and lift the embargo and give them hundreds of billions of dollars that they will moderate their behavior and engage the world in a responsible manner. This is culturally ignorant and arrogant to insist its true. In the ME they do no respect weakness and they do not pity it. Neither really does the West - weakness is something we don’t want in our gene pool. Its anti-human. (This is not about being generous to the less fortunate this is international geopolitics and war). So what is to be expected from this deal is that they will pocket it and take more, reading weakness and betting that we will be unable to “snap back” the sanctions which of course they are right.

There is a lot more to it though. There is now an axis from Moscow to Tehran. We gave it to them both. We gave them Syria and this will now push Turkey in the wrong direction. Which is even more problematic because they are in NATO. Nobody sees this? There are 60 Senators who need to be sent packing over these next 6 years.