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Iran deal architect is running Tehran policy at the State Dept.
Conservative Review ^ | March 14, 2017 | Jordan Schachtel

Posted on 12/10/2018 12:07:57 PM PST by detective

A trusted Obama aide who once worked for an alleged Iranian regime lobbying group is one of the individuals in charge of Iran policy planning at the State Department under Secretary Rex Tillerson.

Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, the Iran director for former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), has burrowed into the government under President Trump. She’s now in charge of Iran and the Persian Gulf region on the policy planning staff at the State Department.

To make matters worse, Nowrouzzadeh is a former employee of the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), a non-profit that is accused of being a lobbying group for the Iranian regime. NIAC’s current president, Trita Parsi, has long held close relationships with top officials in the Tehran dictatorship. In February, a group of over 100 prominent Iranian dissidents called for Congress to investigate NIAC’s ties to the Iranian regime.

One of Nowrouzzadeh’s primary duties under President Obama was to promote initiatives that pushed the Iran deal. As President Obama’s NSC director for Iran, Nowrouzzadeh sat in on high-level briefings along with President Obama, former VP Joe Biden, and former Secretary of State John Kerry, as top White House staff crafted false narratives on the Iran deal to sell to the American public.

According to the head of a state-run Iranian newspaper, Nowrouzzadeh was an essential element to pushing through the Iran deal. Editor-in-Chief Emad Abshenass said that she opened up a direct line of communication with the Iranian president’s brother. “She helped clear a number of contradictions and allowed the entire endeavor to succeed,” Abshenass said of her efforts.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: iran; obama; state; tillerson
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"In addition to Nowrouzzadeh, several other prominent Obama officials currently serve under Sec Tillerson at the State Department. A former John Kerry apprentice, Michael Ratney, occupies the Israeli-Palestinian portfolio there. Another trusted Obama aide, Yael Lempert, also serves under Tillerson on the same platform.

Why Secretary Tillerson has decided to keep on a chief Obama policy official remains unclear."

On Friday, Tillerson said, "Trump is “a man who’s undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things but rather says ‘this is what I believe."

Tillerson also said, "the president would say here’s what I want to do and here’s how I want to do it and I would have to say to him, ‘Mr. President I understand what you want to do but you can’t do it that way. It violates the law,'” .

Trump responded, "Rex Tillerson, didn’t have the mental capacity needed. He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell."

It turns out Tillerson was pursueing Obama policies at the State Department and deliberately sabotaging President Trump on Iran policy, relations with Israel, the Paris Accords and other issues.

Trump was correct to fire him and to come down on Tillerson after Tillerson attacked President Trump to the media.

1 posted on 12/10/2018 12:07:57 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

Here is the thread from Friday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3711353/posts


2 posted on 12/10/2018 12:08:42 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

Deep State continues its fight to save Obama’s Iran deal.


3 posted on 12/10/2018 12:12:06 PM PST by lodi90
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To: detective; Admin Moderator

Please correct title: “Iran deal”, NOT “ran deal...”

Current title won’t show up if searched under Iran.

Thanks.


4 posted on 12/10/2018 12:14:50 PM PST by Innovative
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To: detective

Forget draining the swamp in Washington. . .it needs a royal flush as in enema. We need to pray that President Trump is surrounded by trusted true Patriots. God knows who is capable. . .we need to ask Him first rather than suffer the consequences by employing those who are career politicians or government workers.


5 posted on 12/10/2018 12:17:02 PM PST by Maudeen (http://ThereIsHopeinJesus.com/)
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To: detective

Trump is so naive when it comes to the deep state. Very few of the Obama holdovers have been purged. We are so screwed.
It is very disappointing. If elections no longer work, there is only one alternative for freedom loving patriots.


6 posted on 12/10/2018 12:18:17 PM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: Dont tread and Live

Sadly, i must agree with you. Why is it when “we” see it but he doesn’t?
This is what I can’t figure out!


7 posted on 12/10/2018 12:22:31 PM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (get off my lawn)
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To: Dont tread and Live

I think POTUS vastly underestimated the treasonous behavior of his own party. The latest seems to be all quarters of the beltway trying to bully Trump into not running again in 2020. Good luck with that.


8 posted on 12/10/2018 12:23:19 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Maudeen

Trump is surrounded by snakes he appointed based upon the advice of other snakes he appointed.


9 posted on 12/10/2018 12:28:52 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: detective
“O” and all his crowd are like an indigestibles lump of crud spewed out of the WH and now at large poisoning the outer world at large.
10 posted on 12/10/2018 12:29:21 PM PST by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: detective

Another swamp draining failure.


11 posted on 12/10/2018 12:35:01 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: detective

Another reason Trump should have signed a memo Jan 20, 2017 firing every Obama executive branch hire by the close of business that Friday afternoon. Every single person. Too late now.


12 posted on 12/10/2018 12:37:16 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Dont tread and Live

Congress, by majority vote, and Trump could spin off parts of the United States.

The new countries would be Swampland independent.

A succession statute is also possible.

The clock is ticking.


13 posted on 12/10/2018 12:46:26 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: detective

Sahar

14 posted on 12/10/2018 12:52:27 PM PST by gaijin
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To: thesligoduffyflynns

Trump needs to develop some more ideologically competent individuals to be able to send in another set of “landing parties” to most Depts., have them survey how best to get a purge going.


15 posted on 12/10/2018 12:53:43 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: gaijin

How does she look in a Burka?


16 posted on 12/10/2018 12:54:20 PM PST by Paladin2
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PDJT please please DRAIN THE damned SWAMP!

this is a Super-BIG part of why we voted for you...


17 posted on 12/10/2018 12:58:58 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Maudeen
Forget draining the swamp in Washington. . .it needs a royal flush as in enema.

The corruption is just so wide, deep and pervasive that it will be a long term effort to put things right.

There are too many bureaucracies employing too many Swamp people that the Deep State cannot be cleared out in one fell swoop.

Well... A nuclear strike could do it but anything short of that will take time, perseverance and the stomach for a long struggle.

It has been made clear in the last two years that they will not leave or relinquish their stranglehold on America without a nasty, dirty fight.

18 posted on 12/10/2018 12:59:42 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (Yes Dorothy, Windows 10 sucks even in Kansas!)
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To: thesligoduffyflynns

I agree but not sadly. I’m locked and loaded. Happy to get it on. The wheels are turning and there’s no other alternative. It will require prudent and disciplined action as demanded by the Declaration of Independence. Not a haphazard effort that could be infiltrated and sabotaged by the demons of democracy. What we are experiencing is a slow and sometimes not so slow communist takeover of our nation. Anybody that denies this is a liar and facilitator of the left. As the forefathers said “ either hang together or separately”.


19 posted on 12/10/2018 1:13:07 PM PST by HighSierra5
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Trump fired him now it turns out Secy of State Tillerson was pursuing Obama-era policies at the State Dept,
deliberately sabotaging President Trump on Iran policy, relations with Israel, the Paris Accords and other issues.
.......several prominent Obama officials who have knowledge of the Iran deal are still at the State Dept.
<><> Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, in charge of Iran and the Persian Gulf region on the policy planning staff,
<><> a former John Kerry apprentice, Michael Ratney, occupies the Israeli-Palestinian portfolio,
<><> trusted Obama aide, Yael Lempert, served under Tillerson on the same platform.

REFERENCE--- Obama's $1.3B giveaway to Iran was paid in cash Jan 22 and Feb 5 from a little-known fund administered by the US Treasury.The so-called Judgment Fund is made up of tax dollars Congress has permanently approved in the event it's needed....

SOURCE: fiscaltreasury.gov. -----The Judgment Fund was established to pay court judgments and Justice Department compromise settlements of actual or imminent lawsuits against the government. It is administered by the Judgment Fund Section, which is a part of the United States Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The Judgment Fund Internet Claims System (JFICS) is the application used to process all Judgment Fund claims.

The Judgment Fund is a permanent, indefinite appropriation available to pay judicially and administratively ordered monetary awards against the United States. The Judgment Fund is also available to pay amounts owed under compromise agreements negotiated by the U.S. Department of Justice in settlement of claims arising under actual or imminent litigation, if a judgment on the merits would be payable from the Judgment Fund. The statutory authority for the Judgment Fund is 31 U.S.C. 1304.

If funds for paying an award are otherwise provided for in the appropriations of the defendant agency, the Judgment Fund may not pay an award. A federal agency may request that payment of an award be made on its behalf from the Judgment Fund only in those instances where funds are not legally available to pay the award from the agency's own appropriations.

Amounts paid vary significantly from year-to-year. Federal agencies are not required to reimburse the Judgment Fund except when cases are filed under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) or the No FEAR Act (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act).

We can be contacted at judgment.fund@fiscal.treasury.gov or 202-874-6664.

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UT-OH----J.Ansari Zarif, the Iranian deputy for parliamentary and Iranian affairs within Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he would expose "everyone who allegedly accepted bribes" to facilitate Obama's nuke deal with Iran. "... we will reveal which western politicians receive

20 posted on 12/10/2018 1:16:31 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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