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Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal
The Guardian ^ | May 5, 2018

Posted on 05/05/2018 8:09:42 PM PDT by keat

Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran Donald Trump promised the Israeli leader that Iran would never have nuclear weapons. Donald Trump promised the Israeli leader that Iran would never have nuclear weapons. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, the Observer can reveal.

People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama’s top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal.

The extraordinary revelations come days before Trump’s 12 May deadline to either scrap or continue to abide by the international deal limiting Iran’s nuclear programme.

Jack Straw, who as foreign secretary was involved in earlier efforts to restrict Iranian weapons, said: “These are extraordinary and appalling allegations but which also illustrate a high level of desperation by Trump and [the Israeli prime minister] Benjamin Netanyahu, not so much to discredit the deal but to undermine those around it.”

One former high-ranking British diplomat with wide experience of negotiating international peace agreements, requesting anonymity, said: “It’s bloody outrageous to do this. The whole point of negotiations is to not play dirty tricks like this.”

(Excerpt) Read more at tiny.iavian.net ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201805; 20180512; benrhodes; blackbox; blackrock; brexit; colinkahl; deadline; iran; irandal; israel; jackstraw; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; straw; theresamay; traitor; trump; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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This is the Brit's weak-assed attempt to counter Trump on the Iran deal. Good luck, lol!
1 posted on 05/05/2018 8:09:42 PM PDT by keat
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To: keat

Sat night take news


2 posted on 05/05/2018 8:11:34 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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The Guardian is a Liberal rag.


3 posted on 05/05/2018 8:11:39 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: keat

The President knows the Obama cabal sold us out to the Mullahs. Need to get the best evidence available.


4 posted on 05/05/2018 8:11:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: keat

Jack Straw is scum.


5 posted on 05/05/2018 8:11:58 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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The BS Meter is pegged hard on this one...


6 posted on 05/05/2018 8:12:02 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: keat

Well, I certainly hope that he did so. The Iran Deal is a fetid pile of dingoes kidneys.


7 posted on 05/05/2018 8:12:31 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: keat

How anti-S can they get? Eff them, I Say


8 posted on 05/05/2018 8:12:34 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: MarvinStinson
Jack Straw is scum.

+1

9 posted on 05/05/2018 8:13:11 PM PDT by keat
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Oh FFS. Flaming bulls**t.


10 posted on 05/05/2018 8:13:53 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: keat

This is it! We got the ORANGE MOFO now!


11 posted on 05/05/2018 8:14:48 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: keat

Don’t insult scum with such comparisons.


12 posted on 05/05/2018 8:15:15 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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"The President knows the Obama cabal sold us out to the Mullahs. Need to get the best evidence available."

Well, if he could trust the FBI, CIA and other deep staters, he wouldn't have to go around them, would he.

13 posted on 05/05/2018 8:20:15 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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This is a street fight for the future of the Free World. No need to apologize to anyone. Bare knuckles, brass knuckles, whatever it takes.
 
14 posted on 05/05/2018 8:20:44 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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Amen to that.


15 posted on 05/05/2018 8:21:50 PM PDT by keat
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To: armourenthusiast

Think Trump had to beg the Israelis to lose k into this?


16 posted on 05/05/2018 8:23:22 PM PDT by Equine1952 (The left sucks. That is why your toilet flushes.)
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To: keat

Good on them.


17 posted on 05/05/2018 8:23:40 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Equine1952

Look into.


18 posted on 05/05/2018 8:25:38 PM PDT by Equine1952 (The left sucks. That is why your toilet flushes.)
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One former high-ranking British diplomat with wide experience of negotiating international peace agreements, requesting anonymity...

Real Name=Christopher Steele???

19 posted on 05/05/2018 8:28:05 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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Leftist klaptrapbthat blows its cover ( trying to blame the Jews) right at the start. Yes, Bibi is concerned about the Iranian threat. But Israel is only the Iranian islamonazis’ lesser target. USA is and always has been their “Great Satan” to be nuked first. Actually, first, second, third, 4th, 5th, 6th, and seventh -per their own words, plans, threats. Any responsible American official doesn’t need any encouragement from Jerusalem to remove the Iranian threat. None at all. (. It was only the enemy agent previously in our white house that set America up for nuclear destruction from his Iranian islamonazi bff’s. )


20 posted on 05/05/2018 8:33:37 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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