Posted on 04/03/2016 6:24:25 AM PDT by HomerBohn
President Obama on Friday criticized Iranian leaders for undermining the “spirit” of last year’s historic nuclear agreement, even as they stick to the “letter” of the pact.
In comments following the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Obama denied speculation that the United States would ease rules preventing dollars from being used in financial transactions with Iran, in order to boost the country’s engagement with the rest of the world.
Instead, Obama claimed, that Iran’s troubles even after the lifting of sanctions under the nuclear deal were due to its continued support of Hezbollah, ballistic missile tests and other aggressive behavior. “Iran so far has followed the letter of the agreement, but the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and businesses that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that are going to scare businesses off,” Obama said at a press conference.
“When they launch ballistic missiles with slogans calling for the destruction of Israel, that makes businesses nervous.”
“Iran has to understand what every country in the world understands, which is businesses want to go where they feel safe, where they don’t see massive controversy, where they can be confident that transactions are going to operate normally,” he added. “And that’s an adjustment that Iran’s going to have to make as well.”
Months after the U.S. and other global powers lifted sanctions against Iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program, Iranian leaders complain that they have yet to reap the benefits.
“Our banking trade, our efforts to return wealth from their banks, various kinds of businesses that require financial services — all of these are still facing problems,” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an address last month. “When we investigate the issue, it becomes obvious that [the banks] are afraid of the United States.”
Despite the lifting of sanctions, American companies are still banned from doing business in Iran and foreign banks are prohibited from using the U.S. dollar for their Iranian dealings. Earlier this week, multiple reports indicated that the White House was considering easing financial rules to let foreign companies use the dollar to do business with Iran.
But on Friday, Obama appeared to shoot the idea down.
“That’s not actually the approach that we’re taking,” he said.
“It is not necessary that we take the approach of them going through dollar transactions,” he added. “It is possible for them to work through European financial institutions as well.”
Instead, Obama said, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew
and other U.S. officials would help “provide clarity” to global businesses about what kinds of work they can do in Iran under current rules.
What a prize we have in barry....
Not only evil, but STUPID too!!!
How precious...
Obama thought the deal was for Iran to behave as long as he was still in the White House. He never figured that Iran would calculate that it needed to take maximum advantage while Obama is still at the helm.
This moron doesn’t fool me. He is a closet moozlum-lover who hates Free America. All his actions are intentional. He should be in prison.
Bump
So, I guess our only option now is war since Obama said there were 2 options available.
Idiot on parade
The Iranians were like the Martians from Mars Attacks.
They would never behave and killed all of the world’s leaders.
Two nitwits. Unfortunately they, along with Hillary and a legion of appointees, have wounded America so deeply that we may never recover.
Our enemies, of which are legion, can take this pitiful nation over whenever it suits them.
With all the on-the-job training he has gotten he still doesn’t have the judgement to understand what a theocracy stands for.
And what are you going to do about it? Nothing.
"I'm not saying that's a *bad* thing.
Oh, and Death to America!"
Why, just what the hell do you think you’re talking about?
Our elected Congressmen and Senators will make certain that America will re-vitalize and that the criminal Obama doesn’t get away with anything.
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