Posted on 04/04/2021 4:55:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Biden’s efforts to restart the nuclear deal with Iran is fraught with unintended consequences.
The Biden administration seeks to reinstate the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and begins next week in Vienna, Austria to negotiate that resurrection through intermediaries, according to the New York Times. That’s not good news for the Middle East and America. However, the Chinese will clearly benefit, thanks to the communist regime’s growing leverage with the Islamic Republic.
The 2015 nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was negotiated by then-secretary of State John Kerry, and widely viewed as President Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement. The Iranian leadership agreed to restrictions to and inspections of their nuclear program evidently intended to prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon in exchange for lifting crippling sanctions.
President Obama sidestepped domestic opposition to the deal by making the agreement an executive action rather than seeking ratification of a treaty subject to a Republican-controlled Senate and a certain death. Meanwhile, Obama sweetened the deal for the Persian mullahs by shipping via an unmarked aircraft that landed in Tehran at midnight $1.8 billion in cash followed up by releasing $150 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
Then in 2016 Obama’s legacy achievement became the object of one of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s primary campaign promises, which he labeled a “rotten” agreement. In May 2018 President Trump made good on his promise to scrap the Iran nuclear deal which he characterized as built on a foundation of lies.
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I am sure that Xiden, 0bama and Valjar agree with Iran that Israel is the little satan and the USA is the great satan. In typical leftist fashion they call others what they are themselves.
Why do allegedly conservative-leaning writers always refer to Demonic Party diplomatic efforts, policies and legislation as having “unintended consequences”. With over 100 years of evidence, it is obvious o anyone with an iota of common sense, that everything they do is intended to have the adverse effect on our culture, economy, the country and its citizens.
In typical leftist fashion they call others what they are themselves.
The best way to spot one they always expose them selves.
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