Obama: Iran is not business-friendly
President Obama seemed surprised yesterday when he noticed that, although they’re complying with the letter of the treaty, Iran isn’t following the spirit of the nuclear deal that John Kerry caved to last year. Iran complained that they haven’t reaped the economic benefits that were promised to them, according to The Hill;
“Iran so far has followed the letter of the agreement, but the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and businesses that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that are going to scare businesses off,” Obama said at a press conference.
“When they launch ballistic missiles with slogans calling for the destruction of Israel, that makes businesses nervous.”
“Iran has to understand what every country in the world understands, which is businesses want to go where they feel safe, where they don’t see massive controversy, where they can be confident that transactions are going to operate normally,” he added. “And that’s an adjustment that Iran’s going to have to make as well.”
Iran has squandered their windfall on continuing to be the main state supporter of terrorism in the world, and that seems to surprise this administration – as if they’ve been asleep for the last thirty years. Obama is referring to the news last month, from USAToday;
Iran test-fired two ballistic missiles, one of them with the phrase “Israel should be wiped off the Earth” written on it in Hebrew, Iranian news media reported Wednesday.
The country’s semiofficial Fars news agency said the missiles were fired at a target 870 miles away.
It came the day after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it test-fired several ballistic missiles as part of a military exercise.
Good use of their billions of dollars, you know, instead of making life better in Iran. And, oh, yeah, Iran’s agent in Iraq, Muqtada al Sadr is back in business in the Green Zone reforming the Iraqi government in Iran’s favor;
Muqtada al-Sadr, the cleric whose militia repeatedly battled US troops more than a decade ago, is back in action in Iraq – this time as a battler against corruption who seeks to change the face of government.
On Thursday, after spending five days holed up in a tent inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone to press his demands, he was handed a victory, in the form of a proposed new government presented to parliament by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
CNN reports that that the Pentagon is contemplating even more US troops in Iraq;
A U.S. defense official told CNN earlier this week that the U.S. currently has between 4,500 and 5,000 troops in Iraq on a regular basis, about 1,000 over the stated limit of 3,800. This includes 200 Special Operations Forces whose presence is not publicly acknowledged, the official said.
The coalition has made a decision not to publicly reveal the exact number of U.S. troops currently in Iraq, coalition spokesperson Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters earlier this week.
So, basically, it’s 2005 all over again.
Category: Terror War
More US troops to the Middle East = dumping the whole thing on the next poor sucker who gets elected President.
Iran surprise! = dumber than a bunch of ducks on a string.
I’d better start prepping again. And I was SO getting used to just monthly grocery shopping and stuff.
The numbers are wrong, but I’ll keep my trap closed. I’m willing to bet all of us here knew from the get-go any deal with Iran was a Joke !!!!! This proves it
Well, Lars will show up and tell us how it is a YUUUUGE foreign policy success for Obambi and us rubes are too stupid to understand it. Or racist, partisan, or whatever other BS he can come up with.
PLEASEEEE don’t speak the name 🙂
another “duh” from this administration that has numerous “duh” moments
It’s because we have had the 2 worst SoS’s ever in the last 7 years….total fails and one of those is running for POTUS…and she is absolutely disgusting as a human being
the country is in deep sheeit and the pile seems to be getting deeper with these so called geniuses in charge of things….funny thing is their all lawyers , makes you wonder about Amerika’s law schools, they must really suck at common sense and are experts at being naïve at the way the rest of the world works…”oh kumbaya” doesn’t work in reality
Billions and billions of dollars….
What an investment!
This is Obummer’s legacy.
I think of the literally hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars we have paid in blackmail to horseshit countries in the desperate hope they will come to like us and agree with our policies. I think of the veterans who could be served with those monies, the homeless, those addicted to drugs from which there is little hope of escape. And what have we reaped from spending all that money? Dick. Sadness. Well, at least Obama now realizes that Iran is not a ‘user friendly’ country. Tell that to the drug addicts walking the streets, in all probability hoping to die to end their suffering. Yeah, I know they put the needle in their arm. I’m not absolving them of their responsibility. But I would much rather see our resources going to those mentioned above, who, regardless of their lifestyles, are our fellow citizens, than to NK, Iran, and other horseshit countries in the world that despise us. OK, that’s my daily rant. Fuck this corrupt, ‘most transparant’ administration. NOW I’m done.
No. I hope I’m wrong – but it looks more to me like this
Naive Clown Krew’sAdministration’s legacy will be an Iranian nuclear weapon, sitting atop an IRBM. It just won’t come to fruition until about a decade after this current group ofignorant foolsfine public servants leaves office.Unless your business is terrorism.
All together now!
“Let’s do the time warp again!!!”
Take a jump to the left. . . . .
Well, since you brought it up . . . (smile)
Dammit, Janet!
“Iran Is Not Business Friendly”
(low voice) NNOOOOOOOOOO!!!
(high voice) REEEEEALY!!!
Who’d a thunk it?!
(/sarc off)
Surprises the hell out of me, also. I may need counseling to repair my damaged psyche.
Just don’t show up at the VA for help.
Barry, sKerry, and Druncle Joe. So much fail behind one podium.
Bizarro World. It kinda makes you wonder if the Ayatollah should be investing more in subprime mortgage bonds…
Come on Lars, defend this for us.
Can’t wait to hear it!
(Kidding)
I am shocked I tell you…SHOCKED!!!!… Well no not really. I think anyone with two brain cells to rub together saw this coming.
What’s next, “Lurch” Kerry claiming PTSD from bad press following that fucked up excuse of a “deal”?
Mr. Kerry & Mr. Obama — “deal” – I don’t think that word means what you think it means. re: missiles The below is from a CNN article here: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/09/middleeast/iran-missile-test/ “One of the missiles, the Qadr-F, had a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) and the other, the Qadr-H, had a range of 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles), according to the report. It cited Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ aerospace division.” and “Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that in the latest tests, two Qadr missiles were fired from the Alborz Mountains in northern Iran.” According to Google Earth, the distance from those mountains to Tel Aviv is about 1,000 miles. and “They hit targets 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) away in the southeastern part of the country, it said.” Again, according to Google Earth, 870 miles is just about as far as you can go from the launch site and still be on land in Iran — very close to the Balochistan border and the Indian Ocean. I suppose that means, “no litter for anyone to examine” and “watch out Israel, we can reach out and touch you”. At the latitude of Nablus (a city in the northern part of the west bank) it is 43 miles from the Jordan river (Israel’s eastern border) to the Med. It is about 9 miles from the Med to the western border of the “occupied west bank”. Supposing for the moment that no one in Iran has completed college physics and, therefore, they could not possibly have constructed a nuclear weapon, the Iranians certainly have a lot of nuclear material and a dirty bomb is just about their speed. I would look at the CNN article and think, “the Iranians just said that they have a pistol pointed at Israel’s head and the safety is not engaged”. In 1962, the US and the Soviet Union almost went to war over missiles delivered to (but not yet set up in) Cuba. Those Persians fired their missiles so this is a demonstrated capability, not “under construction”. To me, the eye-ah-toll-ahs… Read more »
I shudder the thought that those billions of dollars the Iranians have to pursue state sponsored terrorism implies this country is also responsible for funneling funds for the same purpose.
Iran not “friendly”? Color me shocked. We’ve been fighting those sob’s since 1979. General LeMay’s Solution is the best I’ve heard for this outlaw nation.
I remember the song from 79…
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran!
Gotta love the classics…..