Posted on 07/21/2015 8:52:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Secretary of State John Kerry admitted to Al-Arabiya that it’s “very disturbing” how Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continues talking about destroying the U.S. and Israel after signing the P5+1 nuclear agreement.
Kerry said he would be pitching Gulf partners on “all of the ways in which this agreement, in fact, makes the Gulf states and the region safer.”
“I will also discuss with them at great length the things that the United States of America is going to do, working with them, in order to push back against the terror and counterterrorism efforts and other activities in the region that are very alarming to them,” he said, adding “it’s a chance for them to ask me any misgivings they have.”
Al-Arabiya’s Nadia Bilbassy-Charters asked Kerry, “Can the United States stop the nefarious activities of Iran in four Arab capitals?”
And Kerry replied with a question. “Is it better to push back against those activities against an Iran with a nuclear weapon or an Iran without one? Obviously, without one. So you have to begin somewhere.”
When asked about the cash influx that will line the pockets of the Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah and Houthis and Assad, Kerry answered with another question: “Who has more cash? Saudi Arabia and the Emirates and Qatar, or Iran?”
“Well, maybe they need to become more proactive in pushing back against activities so people understand they don’t have a free playing field on which to deal,” he continued. “The point I’m making is that $100 billion is nothing compared to what gets spent every year in the region. Iran’s military budget is $15 billion. The Gulf states’ military budget is $130 billion.”
Kerry said he’d had “several conversations” with Assad arms supplier Russia “one with President Putin, several with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about how we might try to deal more effectively with Syria.”
On Khamenei’s threatening Eid statements about staying at war with the Great Satan: “I dont know how to interpret it at this point in time, except to take it at face value, that thats his policy,” Kerry said. “But I do know that often comments are made publicly and things can evolve that are different. If it is the policy, its very disturbing, its very troubling, and well have to wait and see. But thats one of the reasons for my meeting with all of the Gulf States; its one of the reasons for our being very attentive to guaranteeing the security of the region. And we are not kidding when we talk about the importance of pushing back against extremism, against support for terrorism and proxies who are destabilizing other countries. Its unacceptable.”
The Obama administration has constantly said that inflammatory statements from the supreme leader are just fodder for domestic hardliner consumption.
Asked if Iran will cheat on the agreement, Kerry said, “I have no idea. Im not going to accuse somebody of cheating before somebody does, but I will tell you that this agreement is built so that youre not surprised, so that you know you have the mechanisms in place to prevent it.”
Do we know if Kerry consulted North Korea and Cuba to get their wisdom about the agreement? Or Jane Fonda? You know, all the heavy weights? Maybe some African hellhold run by third rate losers? /s
Biden, Kerry-Hussein has a thing for surrounding himself with the most stupid and vapid white people he can find, from his spokespeople to people in positions like Kerry’s. It’s telling, on a lot of fronts.
GDamn I want to walk up to this horses ass and kick him in the nuts!
Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Places
Plot
Duke brothers Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer (Don Ameche) own a successful commodities brokerage in Philadelphia. Holding opposing views on the issue of nature versus nurture, they make a wager of the "usual amount" and agree to conduct an experiment switching the lives of two people at opposite sides of the social hierarchy and observing the results. They witness an encounter between their managing directorthe well-mannered and educated Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), engaged to the Dukes' grand-niece Penelopeand a poor street hustler named Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy); Valentine is arrested at Winthorpe's insistence because of a suspected robbery attempt. The Dukes decide to use the two men for their experiment.
In short - Biden, Kerry etc etc etc etc....
Very well expanded.
Obama has said a lot of things that aren’t true. I don’t expect anything he says on Iran to be any more truthful.
That’s a pretty good accounting. It’s startlingly simple, an yet says all you need to know.
And so unlike most things in life, it holds true 100% of the time.
(Not photoshopped.)
Ping to a July thread that could have been written this morning.
John Kerry: It is very disturbing how Ayatollah keeps saying he wants to Destroy Us.
Check out article, then # 52, # 57 , # 58 , # 62 .
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Not much gets past him!!!
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