Posted on 01/16/2016 2:12:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
The U.N. nuclear agency certified Saturday that Iran has met all of its commitments under last summer's landmark nuclear deal, crowning years of U.S.-led efforts to crimp Iran's ability to make atomic weapons. For Iran, the move lifts Western economic sanctions that have been in place for years, unlocking access to $100 billion in frozen assets and unleashing new opportunities for its battered economy.
"The multinational economic and financial sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program are lifted," Federica Mogherini, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said in a joint statement also read in Farsi by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif.
President Barack Obama signed executive orders lifting economic sanctions on Iran and Mogherini said the EU had lifted its nuclear-related sanctions as well. ...
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LOVELY!
JUST EFFING LOVELY!
When choosing between war and dishonor, they always pick dishonor. And of course, will get war anyway.
Okay boys...now we got the bucks to build the best nuke and the best missile in the world.
The blood of millions will be on their hands.
Would never be happening if not for Obama.
Giving $100 billion back to Iran was all Obama wanted
Hussein arms the terrorists. Hooray!
Not being a constitutional lawyer, I seemed to have missed something here????
I thought treaties had to be approved by the US Senate?
The US Senate passed all this?
I must have slept late that day.
So did the Senate, looks like.
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