Iran becomes a major problem

Pravda ^ | January 23rd, 2017 | Dmitry Nersesov

[Mariner]

Following the strange story with the use of the military airfield in Iran's Hamadan, it has become clear that Russia should not trust Iran. The events of the recent years can only reinforce the impression. Russia and Iran have different approaches not only to Syria - Iran shows influence on Russia's relations with the United States.

The talks between Russia, Turkey and Iran started in the Kazakh capital of Astana on January 23. The talks are of paramount importance for Russia, because they could become the first platform for establishing a dialogue with the new US administration.

"We think it is appropriate to call representatives of the UN and the new US administration for this meeting. We hope that the new US administration will be able to accept this invitation" Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The talks in Astana about the regulation of the Syrian crisis could attract the Trump team to the joint coordinated work on the issue. At the same time, it is obvious that any sort of agreements for reconciliation in Syria can not be solid and durable without the participation of the United States. Noteworthy, the invitation of American experts for the talks in Astana was agreed with Turkey.

[Mariner]

Russia laying the ground work to dump Iran.

[Hostage]

The regime in Iran is illegitimate.

The people there want to throw the Imams out but they need assistance.

[dp0622]

Or at least us wanting to think that.

Would be great but best to see tangible steps towards this end.

Russia was only all too happy to get rid of the Iran sanctions. That wasn’t 20 years ago. It was recent.

They could have called out Iran when they humiliated our sailors (a SAD SAD day in American history). They didn’t.

And I don’t think Iran makes that move without knowing Russia has its back.

[Mariner]

Iran appears to no longer be of use to Russia and a potential hindrance.

No tellin’ what will happen there if the US and Russia achieve comity.

[Mariner]

Maybe Russia has achieve what it wanted with its Iranian engagement and now has bigger fish to fry.

I do not believe Russia would ever be comfortable with Iranian nukes but 300 miles away.

[katana]

The Russians have been natural enemies of Persia / Iran for centuries. They have coveted access to the Gulf and the Indian Ocean since the time of Peter the Great and, unlike us, they think in terms of centuries not election cycles. That is one reason why prior to the Mad Mullah Khomeini Iran looked to the United States as its protector and ally. And why as soon as that protection was lost Russia's then ally Iraq invaded.

The level of forgetfulness by most of our countrymen of history and the facts on the ground in foreign regions is embarrassing. Most people can't even tell you that the Arabs and Persians are different races (with about a thirty point average difference in IQ to the Persians' favor). But it becomes dangerous when that ignorance is exhibited by people in authority.

[AU72]

Pravda has been the government mouth piece for the Soviet Union now Russia. I call this a signal sent to Trump to dump on Iran.

[Parley Baer]

“Russia laying the ground work to dump Iran.”

I think Trump and Putin will have some interesting discussions if they have not already. No doubt in my mind that this will be on the table.

[ETL]

More Russian/Pravda/Putinista BS.

Obama allowing Iran to purchase uranium from Russia

Daniel Horowitz | January 10, 2017

Remember those side deals Obama forged with Iran that were not part of the text of the official treaty? Now we are finding out some of the details.

Yesterday, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Iranian officials confirmed they have received at least $10 billion in cash, commodities, and assets from Washington since 2013. And that is likely a conservative estimate.

But cash is not the only thing the Islamic Republic of Iran is receiving for gracing us with their willingness to sign onto our own capitulation. The AP is reporting that Russia, with the support of President Obama, is shipping Iran 116 metric tons of natural uranium.

While Iranian officials have obviously declined to disclose the use of such uranium, AP notes that this is enough to enrich weapons-grade uranium for nuclear bombs:

“Despite present restrictions on its enrichment program, however, the amount of natural uranium is significant should Iran decide to keep it in storage, considering its potential uses once some limits on Tehran’s nuclear activities start to expire in less than a decade.

David Albright, whose Institute of Science and International Security often briefs U.S. lawmakers on Iran’s nuclear program, says the shipment could be enriched to enough weapons-grade uranium for more than 10 simple nuclear bombs, “depending on the efficiency of the enrichment process and the design of the nuclear weapon.” ...”

See more at:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/01/obama-allowing-iran-to-purchase-uranium-from-russia-will-tillerson-reverse-course#sthash.guYPvONI.dpuf

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Sen. D’Amato Drops Bomb: Hillary Allowed Russia to Take Ownership of US Uranium to Sell to Iran (Video at link)

Jim Hoft
Jul 3rd, 2016

Former Senator Al D’Amato (R-NY) dropped a bomb on Sunday Morning Futures this AM. D’Amato told Maria Bartiromo that Hillary allowed Russia to take ownership of US uranium so they could sell it to Iran.

Hillary made it possible for the Russians to take control of one of our huge uranium producers and allow them to own the company, export the uranium and who do they sell the uranium to? Iran!

Now if people knew that and that the foundation as a result of that got $135 million. I think people would start saying, “What?”

It’s true.
In January 2013, Pravda celebrated the Russian atomic energy agency’s purchase of the company “Uranium One” in Canada.

That same company, Uranium One, owned uranium concessions in the United States. Because uranium is a strategically important commodity, the Russians would need approval from the Obama administration, including Hillary’s State Department, before the purchase took place.

Nine shareholders in Uranium One just happened to provide more than $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation in the run-up to State Department approval.

The Clintons took the cash from Uranium One officials before the deal was approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. The Clintons hid the donations which is a clear violation of the Memorandum of Understanding Hillary Clinton signed with the Obama administration wherein she promised and agreed to publicly disclose all donations during her tenure as Secreatary of State. (Via Breitbart)

The New York Times reported on the crooked deal in 2015.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And then there’s this...

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) told Greta Van Susteren the deal Hillary approved gave Putin ownership of 20 percent of US uranium and Russia sells uranium to unfriendly countries, including Iran.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/senator-damato-drops-bomb-hillary-allowed-russia-take-ownership-us-uranium-sell-iran-video/

[ETL]

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
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Re: The Obama-Putin Iran Deal...

Aug 2015

[Mariner]

The US is going to do a deal with Russia.

Get used to it snowflake.

[mrsmith]

Maybe Iran has already dumped them for China. Iran is at least playing them against each other. China’s path through the ‘Khans’ is also pressuring Russia.
Russia would like to be in a stronger negotiating position with China.
But slowing construction of pipelines through Syria is all I see them getting near term. If they want to calve Turkey from NATO more power to them.

[Mariner]

Comity with the US is a very valuable thing in this world.

Especially when you have Iran and China at your back door.

[ETL]

Stick your “snowflake” up your you-know-what, you Putin butt kissing phony.

[mrsmith]

And Trump doesn’t sell valuable things cheap.

[ETL]

Comity with the US is a very valuable thing in this world. Especially when you have Iran and China at your back door.

Except for the fact that Russia has never had a tighter alliance with Iran and Red China than they do right now. They've been holding annual joint war games with the ChiComs since 2005, in obvious preparation for war with the US and our allies.

[ETL]

Maybe Iran has already dumped them for China. Iran is at least playing them against each other.

One would have to have been born yesterday to automatically believe everything that comes out of the Kremlin-controlled media.

[ETL]

...then again, I’ve always figured Russia was just using Iran to advance their own evil agenda. Putin’s goal is to basically restore the Soviet Union. Only this time it will include valuable territories in the oil and gas-rich Middle East.

[Jonty30]

Russia has promised a devastation of the Middle East if there is ever a single bomb dropped anywhere in Russia.

[Rainier1789]

Weren’t Libya (Gadaffi), Egypt (Mubarak), and Syria (Assad) at peace under relatively secular dictators until Obama had the foolish notion that Islamists marching in the streets could bring about Western-style democracy?
Obama succeeded in leaving Libya to terrorist anarchy. Egypt was almost lost to the Muslim Brotherhood. Assad and his minority Alawites and Christians were not about to commit suicide, so he called on his Russian and Iranian friends.

Don’t Russians and Israelis have good feelings for each other? Israel has the highest proportion of Russian speakers outside the former USSR.

Better relations with Russia would be good to get their help in fighting Radical Islam throughout the world, including in Iran.

It would be good to allow the people of Crimea and Donetsk to have a vote, but as far as I can tell, they prefer to be Russian instead of Ukrainian. Was there another way to let them leave Ukraine, as Slovakia was allowed to split from the Czechs and Scotland was allowed a vote? The US encouraged the breakup of Yugoslavia. The remainder of Ukraine is thus more pro-Western. Let there be peace there.

Reagan regarding Gorbachev: “Trust but verify”. The working relationship between them, plus a stronger American leader, economy and military posture, led to the eventual breakup of the USSR. Sure we have problems with Putin’s treatment of his domestic opponents, but some of our allies are even less democratic and more ruthless (Saudis). I think less enmity toward Russia would be a good thing.