Quincy Institute Fellow Worries ‘Israeli Lobby’ Will Scuttle New Iran Deal

freebeacon ^ | April 12, 2021 | Adam Kredo

[MarvinStinson]

A top official at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is claiming the "Israeli lobby" in the United States is waging a coordinated effort to scuttle the Biden administration’s renewed diplomacy with Iran.

Joe Cirincione, a distinguished non-resident fellow at Quincy, claimed during an MSNBC interview last week that special interest groups controlled by the Israeli government are surreptitiously working to undermine the Biden administration’s efforts to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

"There’s the Israeli lobby in Washington that’s very effective that’s pressing" against a new deal, Cirincione told MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan.

Cirincione was likely referring to pro-Israel American-based groups that work to strengthen ties between the two allies. Many of these advocacy groups oppose the nuclear deal and sanctions relief for Iran due to the threat it poses to Israel. Cirincione’s claim that these groups are controlled by the Israeli government is inaccurate and part of a larger effort by the Jewish state’s detractors to portray American Jews as more loyal to Israel than America.

The Quincy Institute, an isolationist think tank bankrolled by George Soros and Charles Koch, has repeatedly come under fire for promoting experts who parrot anti-Semitic talking points and other narratives that paint Jewish Americans as warmongers. The think tank also has been at the forefront of efforts to support the Biden administration’s negotiations with Iran. Cirincione and Quincy executive vice president Trita Parsi served as key cogs in the former Obama administration’s self-described pro-Iran "echo chamber," which disseminated false and misleading information about the accord.

Cirincione’s claims about the so-called Israeli lobby even struck MSNBC host Hasan as out of bounds. "I think you meant to say the pro-Israeli lobby in D.C.," Hasan said. "The various lobbying organizations in Washington, D.C.; there are a lot of hawkish groups putting a lot of pressure on this administration."

Cirincione went on to claim that Israel is moving toward a full-scale war with Iran.

Israel is "threatening that again," Cirincione said. "Israel thinks that they not only want to stop the Iran nuclear program, they want to overthrow the government of Iran. They have support from Saudi Arabia … [and] of course the GOP here who opposes any foreign policy success for the Biden administration."

Cirincione continued his attacks on Israel Monday morning, when he accused the Jewish state of undermining its alliance with the United States by launching strikes on Iranian terrorists and the regime's illicit forces in the region.

"Hours after he asserts US-Israeli ties are built on ‘trust and cooperation' Israel brags about attacks on Iran, sabotaging US policy," he wrote on Twitter. "Did [Secretary of Defense Lloyd] Austin know about the attacks? If so, did we cooperate? If not, do we trust Israel? No good answers to this."

Cirincione formerly helmed the Plougshares Fund, a progressive foundation that bankrolled multiple organizations that boosted the Obama White House’s campaign to sell the nuclear agreement in 2015. That led then-representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) to launch an investigation into Cirincione and his group’s efforts to slant reporting on the deal and misinform the American public.

[MarvinStinson]

The Quincy Institute, an isolationist think tank bankrolled by George Soros and Charles Koch

Cirincione formerly helmed the Plougshares Fund,

[SaveFerris]

Soros and Koch?

Yikes

[Richard Axtell]

You can expect it. It is called “self defense.” This is not something to look forward to, but Biden is blind stupid anyway. So, he will attempt to go through with Valerie Jerrett’s treasonous initiative anyway.

[G Larry]

"‘Israeli Lobby’ Will Scuttle New Iran Deal"

I hope so!

[Seruzawa]

Ah yes. The Quisling Institute.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The Israeli lobby has more sense than anyone in the Biden administration.

[Mr. Mojo]

<< [and] of course the GOP here who opposes any foreign policy success for the Biden administration.” >>

Fast-tracking Iran becoming a nuclear power is a foreign policy success only for the mullahs and their jihadi pals and leftist bedfellows.

[ETCM]

The QI wants us to abandon Israel and Taiwan, and embrace China as our new overlords.

[Mr. Mojo]

Yep. And if that lobby were as powerful as advertised, there never would’ve been a first Iran nuke deal.

[dangus]

QIRS... wouldn’t that be pronounced, “queers”?

[SJackson]

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[caww]

Irans Nuclear facility recently attacked by Israel was because Biden/BO opened nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna. Obama wants his Iran deal back on the table...and Israel knows Obama’s running the table. Israels going to be sure Irans defanged before any deal goes down...and rightly so.

[SmokingJoe]

The Israelis don’t need Dementia Joe to take care of Iran. They just proved that a few days ago when they totally sabotaged that duper fortified Iranian plant.

[rlmorel]

Let's see.

Iran is a country that

• Is a sworn enemy
  
  
• Entices huge crowds to chant "Death to America"
  
  
• Violated all tenets of international law and took diplomats hostage
  
  
• Sponsored and sponsors terrorism that has killed hundreds if not thousands of Americans
  
  
• Took American sailors captive and humiliated them
  
  
• Was responsible for thousands of American military personnel killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan
  
  
• Had an American administration under Obama that was so completely inept and bent on both destroying the USA and getting an agreement that they could have a fawning press parade around as an example of the stellar statesmanship of an American-hating scumbag
  
  
• All topped off by pallets of greenbacks in the billions of dollars
  
  
• Is devoted to the destruction of Israel
  
  
• Is directly responsible for thousands of Israeli citizens dead
  
  
• Has openly sworn to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

That country.

And these sons of bitches at some scummy leftist think tank bankrolled by people who wish the destruction of American have their panties in a twist because smart people who are looking out for themselves, their families, and their friends, who understand fully the evil nature of the Iranian regime and are hesitant to become sheep to the slaughter are trying to-oh the horror-scuttle something that is evil and suicidal?

What kind of damned upside-down insane and suicidal world do we live in?

[cranked]

Key here is this: Koch and Soros funded.

The ‘think tank’ has a globalist, progressive, Leftist agenda, be assured. This is an outfit that thinks talking solves everything failing to acknowledge that sanctions, etc. are all apart of D I P L O M A C Y.

[BenLurkin]

[Eleutheria5]

They’re worried. I’m hoping.

[rlmorel]

Russia and the Ukraine, Communist China and Taiwan, Israel and Iran.

Anyone with a lick of common sense, real life experience and a grasp of history understands fully that weakness invites aggression.

We can only assume that the Biden Administration, the Left and the people who support and vote for them want the world in flames.

• Hard times create strong men
  
  
• Strong men create good times
  
  
• Good times create weak men
  
  
• Weak men create hard times

We are fully engaged in this cycle, and are on the very last phase right now.

[PIF]

Let’s see.

Iran is a country that
• Vowed to nuke NYC

[libertylover]

I hope the “Israeli lobby” succeeds.

I read where Iran expects a trillion dollars, and I don’t doubt for a minute that Biden/Obama would give it to them.