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Kerry Admits U.S. Will Help Protect Iran’s Nuclear Program From Sabotage
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 7/23/15 | Blake Seitz

Posted on 07/23/2015 5:58:41 PM PDT by markomalley

Top Obama administration officials testified Thursday that the U.S. would help ensure the “physical security” of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure as part of the nuclear agreement they reached with the Islamic republic two weeks ago.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) asked the assembled officials whether a controversial provision in Annex III of the agreement obligated the U.S. to help protect Iran’s nuclear program from future sabotage by Iran’s opponents, notably Israel.

The charge was ducked, but not denied, by Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz.

“I believe that refers to things like physical security and safeguards,” Moniz said. “All of our options and those of our allies and friends will remain in place.”

Secretary of State John Kerry clarified that the annex in question was designed to ensure that Iran’s nuclear capacity was “adequately protected” from unconventional threats like cyber warfare.

“The purpose of that is to be able to have longer-term guarantees as we enter a world in which cyber warfare is increasingly a concern for everybody,” Kerry said. “If you are going to have a nuclear capacity, you clearly want to be able to make sure that those are adequately protected.”

Israel has sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program through cyber warfare in the past.

Such stalling tactics will be more difficult to carry out if the U.S. provides Iran with “training and workshops” to counter nuclear security threats, as the deal requires.

Israel is widely believed to be the ultimate target of an Iranian nuclear weapon. It is one of the leading opponents of the agreement.


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KEYWORDS: feckless; iraniannukes
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To: BipolarBob

It is...but while we’re still here we must fight this evil. For us Israel is our only ally. God will bless them forever and that also is prophecy!


21 posted on 07/23/2015 6:17:02 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (The Sun Never Sets on Liberal Idiocy)
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To: markomalley
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22 posted on 07/23/2015 6:18:22 PM 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: Jim Robinson

I believe the commitment to wage war w/o Congressional prior approval is illegal - not that that has ever stopped Zippy.


23 posted on 07/23/2015 6:18:33 PM PDT by quantumman (K)
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To: markomalley
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24 posted on 07/23/2015 6:19:09 PM 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

Only the Muslim in the Oval Office could sell out Israel so blatantly. Anyone in DC who votes for this shameful betrayal of the Jewish nation should be expelled from office.


25 posted on 07/23/2015 6:20:13 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Jim Robinson
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"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

26 posted on 07/23/2015 6:21:43 PM 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: tumblindice
my wife and I had a talk about these images in our heads this evening. she said she would never be able to erase those images.

just damn how we got where we are today.

27 posted on 07/23/2015 6:22:29 PM PDT by onona (If I agree with something Donald says in a forest, and no one hears, am I still a "Trumper" ?)
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To: Jim Robinson
John Kerry, from his book, The New Soldier
"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small [American] flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.'..."

"The John Kerry quote comes in the epilogue to "The New Soldier," the book put out by Vietnam Veterans Against the War [VVAW]. The book's cover features a group of not-particularly sober-looking anti-war protesters (vets, presumably) flying the American flag upside down [while mocking the historic flag raising event at Iwo Jima]":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203164/posts

Note John Kerry's name at top right of The New Soldier

"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small (American) flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.' "

So John Kerry would have a difficult time marching with those waving small American flags yet had NO problems marching with those waving HUGE VIETCONG FLAGS?

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"Pictured above: VVAW-supported demonstration during the Washington Spring Offensive, April - May 1971. Notice the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong flags."

28 posted on 07/23/2015 6:22:49 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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JOHN KERRY BEING HONORED, BY COMMUNISTS, FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR VICTORY OVER UNITED STATES

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Source for both:
http://www.tinyvital.com/Misc/KerryHonoredByCommunists2.htm

29 posted on 07/23/2015 6:23:29 PM 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: Roman_War_Criminal; hal ogen

It is criminal. We should all ask our congresscritters to vote this down. I don’t know what else to do (that is legal).


30 posted on 07/23/2015 6:23:49 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Hillary is as believable as Sharknado 3. Oh Hell No!)
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"...if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned."-J.F. Kerry

"Under questioning from the Committee, Kerry referred to the democratically elected government of South Vietnam -- our allies -- as a "dictatorial regime, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime," while respectfully calling the North Vietnamese communist regime we were fighting by its oxymoronic official name, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the murderous Viet Cong's political arm by their preferred "Provisional Revolutionary Government.":
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez042804.asp
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June, 1970 -- Kerry joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national veterans group that is part of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City. VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, a former Black Panther, is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ. Hubbard soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the normal election process.
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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John Kerry and the VVAW--Hanoi's American Puppets?
"Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=puppets
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) Complete FBI files:
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=VVAWFBI


31 posted on 07/23/2015 6:24:55 PM 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
The charge was ducked, but not denied...

Somebody get a rope.

32 posted on 07/23/2015 6:32:33 PM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: BipolarBob

That and pray.... Prayer is very powerful! IMHO it’s delayed this evil usurper a lot since this Iran issue has been literally played like kick the can for years. It’s all we can do.


33 posted on 07/23/2015 6:32:37 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (The Sun Never Sets on Liberal Idiocy)
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To: txrefugee
Only the Muslim in the Oval Office could sell out Israel so blatantly.

He's appeasing Iran only out of his loyalty to Comrade Putin.

34 posted on 07/23/2015 6:36:22 PM 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
Israel has no choice but to attack. It is survival for their nation. The Israeli government knows full well they will have to move before the Iranian installations are hardened to the point of no return. The administration of idiots have begun the prelude to a potential WW3.

The evidence is all around us. Russia is probing our defenses and our allies almost daily now. China probing the defenses of our allies.

It is thought that the huge contrail off the western seaboard was a Chinese submarine missile launch a few years back. This was a potential warning for our American defense establishment. China/Russia have taken to space in anti-sattelite technology in an effort to cripple our military communication/GPS systems.

China, Russia, NK, Iran hacking our infrastructure, our government computer systems. No telling how much sensitive information they've gleaned and possibly gleaned from unsecured state dept. computers used by Hillary, Huma and lil Sidney.

Folks should prepare, cause the gubbamints not gonna be there for us.

35 posted on 07/23/2015 6:38:26 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: markomalley

God bless and protect Israel, for it looks like Israel will have to go at it alone taking out Iran’s nuclear sites without the US approval.


36 posted on 07/23/2015 6:41:26 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe aKeystone Pipe lik Project : build it already Congress)
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To: Undecided 2012

In this case I am on Israel’s side.


37 posted on 07/23/2015 6:42:45 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe aKeystone Pipe lik Project : build it already Congress)
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To: ETL

So, Kerry is still negotiating with our enemies .. First with Vietnam in Paris against Kissinger, then Nicaragua, then Russia (USSR) with Kennedy, and now Iran.


38 posted on 07/23/2015 6:43:19 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: txrefugee

Both Iran and Russia want Israel and America wiped off the map. Obama is helping set the stage for their dream to eventually become a reality.


39 posted on 07/23/2015 6:43:38 PM 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: Robert A. Cook, PE
So, Kerry is still negotiating with our enemies .. First with Vietnam in Paris against Kissinger, then Nicaragua, then Russia (USSR) with Kennedy, and now Iran.

For sure, but I prefer the word "appeasing" over "negotiating with".

40 posted on 07/23/2015 6:46:05 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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