Posted on 11/06/2014 10:51:17 AM PST by Dave346
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama secretly wrote Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the middle of last month and described a shared interest in fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, according to people briefed on the correspondence.
Mr. Obama stressed to Mr. Khamenei that any cooperation on Islamic State was largely contingent on Iran reaching a comprehensive agreement with global powers on the future of Tehran’s nuclear program by a Nov. 24 diplomatic deadline, the same people say.
The October letter marked at least the fourth time Mr. Obama has written Iran’s most powerful political and religious leader since taking office in 2009 and pledging to engage with Tehran’s Islamist government.
Mr. Obama’s push for a deal faces renewed resistance after Tuesday’s elections gave Republicans control of the Senate and added power both to block an agreement and to impose new sanctions on Iran. Sens. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) and Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) have introduced legislation to intensify sanctions.
“The best way to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is to quickly pass the bipartisan Menendez-Kirk legislation—not to give the Iranians more time to build a bomb,” Mr. Kirk said Wednesday.
In a sign of the sensitivity of the Iran diplomacy, the White House didn’t tell its Middle East allies—including Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—about Mr. Obama’s October letter to Mr. Khamenei, according to the people briefed on the correspondence.
Leaders from these countries have voiced growing concern in recent weeks that the U.S. is preparing to significantly soften its demands in the nuclear talks with Tehran. They said they worry the deal could allow Iran to gain the capacity to produce nuclear weapons in the future.
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The treasonous Impostor speaks out of both sides of
his Islamic mouth at the same time.
ever notice how the really most important things about Obama involve cloak and dagger secrecy and extreme, extreme treachery?
I have the feeling that historians will be writing the books about this evil, mandible-clicking insect for over a hundred years.
PS-This has ValJar’s fingerprints allll over it.
I read a lot of history, and it’s safe to say that I cannot think of any major nation having pursued a more inconsistent, self-destructive and just plain horrible foreign policy. Ever.
See Kemosabe...Not just ‘white men speak with forked tongue’. :)
Diplomacy doesn't work by talking, name-calling and beers outside the Oval Office. It works by horse trading. Is Zero going to give them what they want?
WHY DOES THIS BOTHER ME AND WHY AM I SURPRISED...
The fact that the Iranians did not publicize it before the election to SCROOOOOO him tells you whom they want to deal with as POTUS.
How do you say “October Surprise” in Arabic?
I don’t know about anyone else, I am very uncomfortable with this guy negotiating this country’s national security. Can you imagine FDR writing Hitler secretly? Or Truman the Emperor of Japan? UNFREAKIN BELIEVABLE!
Interesting leak. Perhaps insiders are turning on the Punk in the White Hut.
It’s a drip, drip, drip situation. Something is going to give. I think he may break down psychologically. Once the bad stories start coming out, it’s all over. How do I know all this? I grew up observing mentally ill people - it was how I survived.
YOu’re right on. Listen to Charles K at night. We all know he’s a board certified psychiatrist. When he speaks about Obama, he speaks like the guy is his patient.
I am sure he is seeeeething behind closed doors, and he will do one chicken bleep thing after another.
No compromise Boehner and McConnell. You hear that?
Iran is 100X more dangerous than ISIS. Why Obama is seriously considering making common cause with Iran is testimony to his lack of seriousness.
Because IS and obola are sunni and Iran is shiite?
He is trying to use the Iranianas to help the Ikwahn??
something is fishy here, I think it is to get Iranian pressure off nuking America while he is there and to get them closer to nuking Israel...
I dunno, I see everything Obola does as helping the muslim brotherhood, shiites and sunnis do not nor mally mix, this iss strange
Fake but accurate. :-)
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