“The exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran.”
The title above is not a quote from some Trump campaign speech, or from some “Right wing” editorial. Rather, it comes from David Albright.
Albright’s president of the Institute for Science and International Security. He’s a former UN weapons inspector.
He’s also co-author of a report by his institute concerning the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That report documents numerous “exemptions” the US and its partners granted to Iran so that Iran would not be in violation of the agreement on 16 January of this year. That was the date at which the agreement required return of Iranian “assets” to begin.
Or, in other words: it had to happen so that we could fund a $400 million cash blackmail payment for the return of some US citizens held hostage by Iran begin returning Iranian assets frozen after the 1979 seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran. And it was necessary not only for that, but so that afterwards we could continue to give Iran money in the future they’ll use to fund their nuclear program continue returning assets to Iran in the future.
Funny, but I don’t recall hearing that Iran had returned our Embassy – or compensated the US for damages relating to its seizure. But maybe I missed it.
Reuters has a good article discussing this idiocy. Since Reuters articles seem to have short on-line lifetimes, I’m also linking to a Fox News article which provides much the same info.
Yeah, that Iranian nuclear agreement certainly seems to be a manifestly “good deal” – for Iran. For the US and the rest of the West . . . not so much.
Coming from this Administration that’s no surprise, though. Given their track record, this bunch of clueless naive dolts the current Administration seems so incompetent that I believe they could eff up a wet dream three times before breakfast.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Foreign Policy
That’s not tobacco in the CiC’s smokes.
I still say they need to hang the s.o.b. in the oval orfice!
“I love it when a plan comes together” – Hannibal Hussein Obama
Okay, so how far from major cities should we move? I was thinking about 250 miles northwest of me, or maybe 300 straight north, would be far enough to avoid the shock/heat wave, and also, wind/weather patterns favor all fallout moving toward WDC, anyway, which is fine with me.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Just move along now like the good sheeple that you are, don’t become intellectually curious or engage in any critical thinking, and above all, don’t ask us any uncomfortable questions.
Trust us.
All that we require from you is that you keep on taking all of the free shit that we give to you in exchange for your votes, stay focused on ‘Dancing with the Stars’, ‘Pokémon Go’, and the latest antics of the Kardashians, and keep relying on enlightened intellectual giants such as Bill Maher, Oprah Winfrey, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, and Snoop Dogg to do your thinking for you. All will be well.
Like we said: trust us.
After all, we went to Harvard and Yale, so we know more about everything than you do.
I’m patently unaware of any so-called good deals negotiated by any member of the stellar varsity team currently located at 1600 PA Ave…unless they were for the personal benefit of the Clintons…somehow those two seem to do pretty well for themselves at every negotiation.
I typed up a long response that got eaten, but essentially it was: don’t let Senator Corker off the hook for this either. He set it up so that the deal would make it thru the Senate (while allowing the Pubbies to vote against it, cute huh) so that they could run on the issue.
And BTW, Boeing managed to get a nice deal with Iran, which I am not suggesting helped to motivate any member of Congress, because only a hardened cynic would suggest that our elected representatives would ever put corporate interests above national security, and I put the Polly in Pollyanna.
I call BS on any who posted above who is suggesting a United States elected or appointed government official, serving in any capacity, would place their personal interests above those of the Nation.
Bullshit I Say, Bullshit
Anyone but me desperately hoping the adults return to office in January? If not, I fear …
Get in line, Chief.
Anyone surprised at this revelation?
Yeah, me neither.
That’s “Smart Diplomacy/Smart Power” in action, people!
Just ask the JEF, Cankles and Jarrett… and I’m betting that Jarrett is the one calling all of the shots when it comes to Iran.
If it’s any consolation, Iran is probably going to nuke Saudi Arabia first.
May not be a bad thing at all.
Exactly.
We just wait a decade or so and then go back and drill through the glass without the pesky oil-ticks.
I just hope they waste each other before they get Jordan and Israel involved.
This thing aka the last eight years has been a train wreck. We will be dealing with this for years to come
We’re STILL dealing with the consequences of how Jimmeh Kahtuh fucked the poodle on Iran, I’m sure we’ll be dealing with the consequences of B. Hussein 0bama & Company’s endless fuckups for at least the next fifty years!
The Clintoons ensured North Korea got nukes and the Obamanards have done the same for Iran.
Anyone else see a pattern there?
Yeah. Both were following the trail blazed by Carter the Clueless’ down the absurd “there is no evil in the world/Kumbaya/they’ll be nice to everyone if we don’t bother them/being nice is more important than protecting the USA” foreign policy path.
I have a minor quibble.
Carter, I really believe was just a naive useful idiot.
Both the Clintoons and Obama are sociopath true believers in the “enemy uber alles” brand of commiescum “loyalty” to the US.
There’s an active program of doing everything they can get away with to harm the US.