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Obama, Iranian official slam GOP letter on deal (Priceless!)
CNN ^ | March 9, 2015 | Alexandra Jaffe

Posted on 03/09/2015 8:08:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

President Barack Obama slammed Republican senators who penned a letter attempting to warn Iran that any pending nuclear agreement will face their scrutiny, claiming they were aligning themselves with Iranian "hard-liners."

"I think it's somewhat ironic to see some members for Congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in Iran. It's an unusual coalition," Obama said Monday ahead of a meeting with European Council President Donald Tusk.

"I think what we're going to focus on right now is actually seeing whether we're going to get a deal or not. Once we do, if we do, we'll be able to make the case to the American people, and I'm confident we'll be able to implement it," Obama said.

Nearly every Senate Republican has signed on to an open letter to Iran's leaders warning that without their approval, any Iran nuclear deal signed by Obama will be null and void after he leaves office.

But a top Iranian negotiator and Democrats slammed the letter, calling it a purposeful attempt to undermine the delicate negotiations as they reach a pivotal deadline later this month.

"We believe this letter has no legal value and is indeed just a propaganda ploy," said Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif....

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: congress; constitution; cotton; iran; irandeal; nuclearweapons; obama; ratification; senate; tedcruz; treaties; zarif
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1 posted on 03/09/2015 8:08:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sure he heard that from the boy himself.


2 posted on 03/09/2015 8:11:08 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will Obama arrest these evil traitors before his Deal with Iran ? D’oh


3 posted on 03/09/2015 8:11:48 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Cluster Administration. Everything they touch turns to manure.


4 posted on 03/09/2015 8:11:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

5 posted on 03/09/2015 8:22:39 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: Oldeconomybuyer
"The Cluster Administration."

At first, I misread your statement, as "The Custer Administration." That might be appropriate as well.

6 posted on 03/09/2015 8:26:40 PM PDT by matthew fuller (The ONLY Democrat candidate is a felony flawed candidate!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

gawd, O wears out the BS Flag....
all that’s left is....

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7 posted on 03/09/2015 8:27:14 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Muslim pervert traitor in the W.H.

Obama is half white scum.


8 posted on 03/09/2015 8:33:26 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I never heard of the Constitution of the United States of America being referred to as a “Letter”.


9 posted on 03/09/2015 8:36:28 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Tagline under review by the United States Supreme Court.)
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To: matthew fuller

Both are appropriate.


10 posted on 03/09/2015 8:44:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

unbelievable. Obama really does want Iran to have nuclear weapons


11 posted on 03/09/2015 8:51:56 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: easternsky

jOkeass has said that he will walk away from a bad deal, therefore, any deal the One makes is a good deal. Obummer has decided, that, if Tehran wants to nuke Israel, it is a good deal, and he will make room on the mantle for another fraudulent Nobel.


12 posted on 03/09/2015 8:56:07 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: faithhopecharity

gawd, O wears out the BS Flag....
all that’s left is....

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The BS Flags get so much use around here...
We've opened a new factory to keep up with demand.


13 posted on 03/09/2015 8:59:42 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix

Thank you. Yes, has there ever been an administration so thoroughly steeped in lies, lies, lies? Every blessed day, more and more lies. All this hot air could be the solution to any energy shortage -— I wish I could draw because I’d show you the Obama Perpetual Lying and Motion Machine right here;


14 posted on 03/09/2015 9:17:51 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: realcleanguy

Caller to Mark Levin suggested we give the Iranis solar panels and wind machines. Nobama is shoving them down our throat so they must be a better source of power than nukes.


15 posted on 03/09/2015 9:22:57 PM PDT by alpo
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To: faithhopecharity
-— I wish I could draw because I’d show you the Obama Perpetual Lying and Motion Machine right here;

I fully understand. I'm no good at drawing either. I wish I was...
That said, we have some very good graphic artists here at FR.
Perhaps you could tell one of them your idea and get a drawing that way.

IF you do, let me know and I'll post it. I'm pretty good at posting stuff

16 posted on 03/09/2015 9:29:25 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: BenLurkin

What comes to mind is “That it takes one to know one” Some people may have forgotten who he is.

Just to refresh your memory who he is............

U.S. “investigators” never bothered to interview any of the former hostages who made the charges against the Iranian leader.

Perhaps the most damning evidence against Ahmadinejad with regard to the hostage-taking came from Bani-Sadr, Iran’s president during the early days of the Khomeini revolution.

He has adamantly affirmed Ahmadinejad was one of the kidnappers who held 52 Americans for 444 days. He said the former student leader was in the embassy throughout the hostage crisis.

“Ayatollah Khomeini’s deputy, Ayatollah Khamenei, demanded of him a constant report on what is happening in the embassy,” he said.

When told Ahmadinejad denied the accusation, Bani-Sadr laughed.

“What do you want?” he said. “That he should not deny it? I was president, and I know the details, and I am telling you for sure that he was there, though his role was not organizational. He was the chief reporter to Khamenei.”

Sadr added that Ahmadinejad initially opposed the hostage-taking but changed his mind once Khomeini gave his support.

At least six former American hostages agree the president of Iran played a key role in interrogating and abusing them.

Chuck Scott characterized his tormentor as “cold, hard-nosed” and said his memory is solid, “as sure as I’m sitting here.”

“If you went through a traumatic experience like that and you were around people who made it possible, you’re never going to forget them,” said Scott, a 73-year-old retired U.S. Army colonel.

Scott said he recognized him almost instantly during the publicity surrounding his election in June, when he shocked the world by winning in an upset.

Former hostage Don Sharer identified Ahmadinejad as a student leader who called Americans “pigs and dogs.”

Ahmadinejad acknowledges membership in the radical student organization that stormed the embassy when he was 23.

“He was in the background, like an adviser,” recalled Sharer, a former U.S. Navy officer. “He called us pigs and dogs and said we deserved to be locked up forever.”

Scott called him “a leader, what I would call a hard-a—. Even the other guards said he was very strict.”

“The new president of Iran is a terrorist,” said Scott.

Sharer said Ahmadinejad was an interrogator and remembers being personally grilled by him.

“He was involved in interrogating me the day we were taken captive,” said former Marine security guard Kevin Hermening. “There is absolutely no reason the United States should be trying to normalize relations with a man who seems intent on trying to force-feed the world with state-sponsored terrorism.”

William Daugherty, another former hostage, concurs that Ahmadinejad was there. He claims he saw him eight to 10 times in the first 19 days of captivity before the hostages were separated into smaller groups.

“As soon as I saw the face, it rang a lot of bells to me, and it was a recent picture, but he still looks like a man, take 20 years off of him, he was there. He was there in the background.”

David Roeder, the embassy’s former deputy Air Force attache, also said Ahmadinejad was present during one of his interrogations.

“It was almost like he was checking on the interrogation techniques they were using in a sort of adviser capacity,” Roeder said.

Sharer added: “He was extremely cruel. He is one of the hardliners, so that tells you what their government is going to stand for in the next four to five years.”

In addition to Bani-Sadr and the hostages, BBC correspondent John Simpson also recalled seeing Ahmadinejad on the embassy grounds, according to Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes.


17 posted on 03/09/2015 9:31:21 PM PDT by saintgermaine (Is she somehow related)
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To: Fiddlstix

Well basically a lot of lies ( hot air) coming out of their orafices (take your pick) — turning a rotor - and then via a wonderfully improbable Rube Goldberg series of contraptions to finally output what? His presidential library perhaps ( mein kamph, rules for radicals, communist manifesto,little red book, a copy of Pinnocio, and a great big Koran)? With a new flag for the Transformed Amerika including 57 state Islamic swords? Or?


18 posted on 03/09/2015 9:43:57 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: realcleanguy

Obama will “...preserve, protect and defend”, the Islamic Republic of Iran...


19 posted on 03/09/2015 10:33:59 PM PDT by Netz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“An unusual coalition” indeed !!!
Did we just hear the click of the “Iranian Reset Button”?.
It would appear,to the entire world,that the “Gauntlet of Treason” has been firmly slapped across the face of the United States Republican Party,in its entirety,by two world leaders !.


20 posted on 03/10/2015 2:25:34 AM PDT by mark8express (Noli Me Tangere...)
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