Posted on 12/21/2015 5:53:14 PM PST by smoothsailing
BY: Adam Kredo
December 21, 2015
Senior Obama administration officials are expressing concern that congressional attempts to tighten laws preventing terrorists from entering the United States could violate the Iran nuclear agreement and prompt Tehran to walk away from the agreement.
Congress is considering measures that would tighten the Visa Waiver Program to make it harder for potential terrorists to legally enter the United States by increasing restrictions on individuals who have travelled to countries with prominent terrorist organizations from bypassing security checks upon entering the United States.
Iranian officials have in recent days repeatedly issued threatening statements to the Obama administration, saying that such moves would violate the nuclear agreement, and the Obama administration last week conveyed the Iranian anger to American lawmakers.
Stephen Mull, the State Department official in charge of implementing the Iran deal, warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late last week that these congressional efforts "could have a very negative impact on the deal."
Under the revised law, which came in the week of a deadly terrorist attack in California, individuals who have traveled to Iran-a lead sponsor of global terrorism-would no longer be eligible to participate in the Visa Waiver Program, which permits individuals from 38 partner nations to more easily enter the United States.
Congress remains concerned that gaps in the program could prevent federal law enforcement officials from detecting terror-tied individuals before they are granted entrance to U.S. soil.
However, a portion of the Iran nuclear deal mandates that the United States not take any action that could harm Iran's economic relationships with other countries. Iranian officials maintain that the new restrictions violate this passage of the deal.
Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, said last week that these tightened measures "are aimed at harassment" and that they "blatantly violate the nuclear agreement," according to comments carried by the Iranian state-controlled press.
Larijani warned that this action will detonate the deal before it has even been implemented.
"If the Americans pursue the plan, they will destroy an achievement with their own hands since it is against the [nuclear deal] and it will trouble them"; he warned.
Rep. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) echoed these concerns last week when he questioned Mull during a Senate hearing.
Visa waiver reform efforts include "a naming of Iran such that individuals who have travelled to Iran will no loner be eligible for the visa waiver program," Murphy said. "There has been a suggestion because there is an element of the agreement that obligates us to not to take steps that would stop economic relations between other nations and Iran that we could perhaps be in jeopardy of breaching the agreement."
Mull agreed with this assessment.
"I have heard from very senior, and Secretary [of State John] Kerry has as well, from very senior officials of differing European allies of ours that it could have a very negative impact on the deal," he said.
Sources working with Congress on the Iran deal criticized the Obama administration for attempting to stymie increased action on terrorism due to its desire to preserve the nuclear deal.
"According to the Obama administrationâs latest interpretation, the nuclear deal allows Iran to test ballistic missiles in violation of international law, but does not allow Congress to prevent terrorists from coming into the United States," Omri Ceren, the managing director of press and strategy at The Israel Project, a D.C. based organization that works with journalists on Middle East issues, told the Washington Free Beacon.
Seyed Araqchi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, also warned that Iran is prepared to "take action" against the United States for implementing visa restrictions.
Iranâs latest threat to break the deal comes amid numerous Iranian provocations, including multiple tests of advanced ballistic missiles, acts prohibited under United Nations Security Council resolutions.
The Obama administration repeatedly said that, while it does not agree with those launches, they do not violate the nuclear deal.
Being as the deal was NEVER approved by Congress, GOOD you effing muslim faggot jihadist dictator madman.
Look.
It's time.
Someone take this guy out. He's got mental problems. There's a section in the Constitution that deals with a President who goes insane. Exercise it.
He's lost his motherhugging mind.
Arrest him and get him into treatment. Seriously.
“assignment”
Interesting word play.
Looks like a cross between Dick Smothers and Lee Oswald.
This HAS to be satire or a joke.
The Treason of the complicit “US” Congress
and their First Moslem by Fraud Caliph reeks
increasingly every single hour.
Cuckoo, Cuckoo... The President is delusional.... Makes for seriously dangerous times... but don’t worry he is on the beach in Waikiki sipping Mai Tais contemplating how best not to anger the Muslim world....
“U.S. officials confirmed over the weekend that Secretary of State John Kerry sent his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, a letter promising to use executive powers to waive the new restrictions on those who have visited Iran but are citizens of countries in the Visa Waiver Program.”
So Obama is more concerned about the feelings of the Iranians than he is about Congress. Makes sense when you think about it; after all, Congress just rolls over and gives Obama whatever he wants anyway or simply ignores them and does whatever he wants to in the few cases Congress won’t pass a law obama wants.
The Obamatollah wants us dead.
There is no other conclusion.
It must be, it had me laughing.
So we have an (illegal, imaginary) agreement with Iran that just happens to keep us from cracking down on terrorism? The (not funny at all) jokes write themselves.
If we were living in a sane time in history , Dear Leader would be impeached, removed from office, and tried for treason.
It’s just a deal so it really doesn’t mean Jack. “Deals” are made to be broken.
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Dear Obuttocks: that’s what you get when you try to end-run Congress by getting only an executive agreement, not a proper treaty. You abused Congress by end-running it, so you have no ground to complain when Congress does the same to you.
Nope, not satire, straight news. To put the US in such a position is treason, IMO.
Ooo, we wouldn’t want to do anything to upset the Iranians.
I agree, but who will do it?
As if giving nukes to Iran isn’t bad enough. No one could figure out why this paki pecker puffer wanted to do this, they settled on the notion that Ogabe wanted to terminate America’s influence in the middle east.
This fvcker is giving nukes to Iran because he can’t nuke the U.S. directly.
Yes, it’s that bad.
Traitors Turtle and JihadiLookalikeRyan will act like there is a deal and will kowtow to their Master Obama.
Even if there was a “deal” it sounds to me as if this administration is saying their deal with Iran is more important than prevent murderous Moose Limbs from coming and killing US citizens.
for those interested, ebay and other websites are selling a ton of toilet paper with his picture on every sheet. and at least one enterprising vendor is offering a “2 for 1” package...one roll with his pic, a second roll with Hillary’s
These make great gifts (in case you haven’t figured out yet what you can possibly give to that commie in your clan, especially)
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(this poster has Zero connection with, or interest in, any of the many vendors of these products, the article in this latest thread just brought O and H to mind, is all) smile smile
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