Iran Nuclear Deal Reached

[ScottL]

[FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Paving the Way for a Nuclear Iran [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]- James A. Lyons
Iran will continue to be the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. It has been at war with the U.S. for more than 34 years and will continue to be. This regime has cost thousands of American lives and countless more injured. Its stated intention - to eliminate our ally Israel and continue war against the U.S. - must be recognized.
The only thing the Geneva agreement has accomplished is to provide Iran another six months to perfect its nuclear-weapons program. The Islamic republic is not going to negotiate away its nuclear infrastructure. It can only be eliminated by a military strike. However, this agreement has taken the U.S. military option off the table and has placed the sole burden for eliminating Iran's nuclear capability on Israel. This is not the way a great power is supposed to behave. Adm. James A. Lyons (ret.) was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. (Washington Times)[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][/FONT][/FONT]

 

[ScottL]

When a Peace Deals Means War - George Jonas
The nuclear ayatollahs of Tehran will hardly abandon a stance that keeps benefiting them - that is, belligerence - and neither the Israelis nor the Saudis, let alone the Egyptian junta, have enough confidence in the Obama White House to rely on it for protection. This means preparations for war, plus a near-certain re-entry of Russia as a Middle East player, with incalculable consequences. Letting the ayatollahs play with explosive toys is criminally negligent of big powers, and suicidal of small powers in the region. (National Post-Canada)

 

[ScottL]

Iran Deal Another Russian Diplomatic Victory over the U.S. - Shlomo Avineri (Project Syndicate)

Western statesmen are wrong to believe they have resolved the Iranian nuclear threat. Indeed, it is naive to imagine that a final agreement with Iran will be achieved in the coming six months: Iran's seasoned diplomats will make sure that does not happen.

While the interim agreement may not be a replay of the Munich Agreement in 1938, it may have set the stage for an even more combustible future. President Obama may not be in office when the fire ignites, but if things do go terribly wrong, he may be remembered as another statesman who was blind to the consequences of his peaceful intentions.

The main reason for pessimism stems from the interim agreement's wider geopolitical context, which has been ignored in favor of the regional dimension. In fact, the agreement, which alleviates much of the economic pressure on the Iranian regime, is a result of Russia's success in delaying international sanctions against Iran and its stubborn refusal to tighten them further.

For the Kremlin, Iran's nuclear program is only one chapter in a campaign to reassert Russia's role as a great power. Indeed, the interim agreement should be viewed as another in a string of recent Russian diplomatic victories over the U.S.

These include Ukraine's decision to reject an association agreement with the EU, President Assad remaining in power despite Obama's insistence that he leave, and Western-oriented groups in Egypt turning to Russia as a source of future military supplies.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

are you saying Iran beat Obama like a drum?

The drum is easy to play, kinda like hitting a punching bag. That pretty much describes what happened to our inept little community organizer.

Just a Muslim taking care of his own.

 

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[Dave007inVegas]

Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his nuclear diplomacy with Iran before an audience of Israeli diplomats and senior members of the US Jewish community and officials.

At a White House Hanukkah reception, Obama said that it was important for the United States to test Iran's intentions, and pledged to keep working for a comprehensive deal to deprive Tehran of a nuclear weapon.
Is that like a red line?

"For the first time in a decade we have halted progress of Iran's nuclear program," Obama said.
Just stop! No one could possibly be that naive, could they?

"Key parts of the program will be rolled back even though the toughest of our sanctions remain in place.
What the hell does that mean?

"That is good for the world, that is good for Israel," Obama said, vowing to keep striving for a final deal with Iran over the coming months that takes care of the "threat of Iran's nuclear weapons once and for all."
Really? Surely he jests.

Obama also said however that Washington must remain vigilant and that its commitment to Israeli security would remain "iron clad" and "unshakeable."
For Israels sake, they better hope it's not the Benghazi caliber of security.

 

[ScottL]

As bad as he is, Kerry is worse. And if his ideological cousin Tippy Livni becomes PM of Israel it's game over.

 

[ScottL]

On Being Taken to the Cleaners by Iran - Hirsh Goodman (Jerusalem Post)

Iran already has the infrastructure, raw materials, scientific know-how, manpower, resources and now, new trading partners and cash, to become a nuclear power virtually at the drop of a hat.

Possessing a military nuclear capacity is a cornerstone of this Iranian regime's thinking. They have starved their country and invested billions to get it. They want it for reasons of regional dominance, control of the Gulf and, primarily, to negate the world's ability to tell it what to do. It gives them deterrence, incredible leverage on the international stage, and strategic parity with the world powers.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was at the table when Iran decided to go nuclear and has navigated the process ever since. Khamenei will not throw his baby into the fire, of that you can be absolutely sure. He will do everything he can to save it, even if requires a bit of duplicity along the way.

If a final agreement is not reached within the six-month deadline, there will almost surely be an extension to "allow diplomacy to take its course." Then there will be another extension, and another. The Geneva deal has relieved the economic stranglehold on Iran; it has made a mockery of UN Security Council resolutions, and, above all, it has left Khamenei with a nuclear option that is as easy to unfreeze as a TV dinner in a microwave.

America and the rest of the free world had waited for years for the yoke of the ayatollahs to be lifted from the Iranian people. This move ensures that it will remain in place for a long time to come. The wrong people have come away strengthened.

This has not been a defeat for Israel. It has been a defeat for democracy and world peace.
Netanyahu is right to be screaming. So would you, if you saw your best friend and ally taken to the cleaners by so obvious a conman, and a provably dangerous one at that.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Uh oh: House Democrats ready to blow up Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran?

The worry is that Dem Rep. Steny Hoyer, the number two House Dem, may join with GOP Rep. Eric Cantor on a resolution or bill that will either criticize the current temporary deal with Iran, or call for a new round of sanctions, or set as U.S. policy some strict parameters on a final deal with Iran, such as opposition to any continued uranium enrichment, House Democratic aides say.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...that-dems-will-undermine-white-house-on-iran/

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[superbeets]

United front: US Secretary of State John Kerry celebrates the Iran deal with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

 

[The Guesser]

Uh oh: House Democrats ready to blow up Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran?



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UPDATE II: Steny Hoyer spokesperson Stephanie Young adds more:

“Mr. Cantor has a resolution. It’s being reviewed and absolutely no decisions have been made. It’s preposterous to think that Mr. Hoyer would sign on to any resolution he believes would undermine the White House or negotiations.”

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As usual, Casper is LYING, because his whole existence here as Sheriff Joe is a LIE. Why did you change from Contrarian Joe to Sheriff Joe, Casper? We both know the answer, Casper? So do some others that may want to lock the Sheriff up AGAIN, right Casper.

 

[SheriffJoe]

I'll tell you what, JFK was a Democrat, so I didn't always agree with everything he did, but he loved his country and its values...unlike the back-stabbing Muslim out to destroy (oops, I mean "fundamentally transform") Western culture in general.

 

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2010

 

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2011

 

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2009
[h=1]For the grieving parents of Neda Soltan, a final indignity - eviction from their home
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2009

[h=1]Iran's president hails new era of hope despite beatings and arrests[/h]

 

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U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee

“I’m disappointed that the agreement reached with Iran leaves unfulfilled our ultimate objective: a complete dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program and related activities. In offering to ease sanctions in return for a six-month halt in the nuclear program, the agreement accepted by the Administration simply does not go far enough to ensure our national security interests and those of our allies, like the democratic Jewish State of Israel. I’m particularly troubled by this agreement’s failure to force Tehran to completely stop uranium enrichment and dismantle its existing centrifuges, whose operation can be resumed quickly, allowing Iran to potentially reach nuclear capacity in a brief amount of time.
“We simply cannot trust the very man who has bragged about advancing Iran’s nuclear program while deceiving the West in his former position of chief negotiator. In light of President Obama’s claim that we have halted Iran’s nuclear program, we’d do well to remember that the one really calling the shots in Iran is Supreme Leader Khamenei, and he has repeatedly made clear his intent for Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. This deal falls short of our primary national security objectives, and it puts into unnecessary danger the security of our friends and allies.”

 

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran's right to uranium enrichment had been recognised.

 

[superbeets]

[h=2]Chuck Hagel on Iran at Senate Hearing[/h]As to the Iranians -- red line, Persian Gulf, some of the Iranian questions you ask, I support the president's strong position on containment




:wink:CONTAINMENT. NOT PREVENTION. IS OBAMA'S REAL POLICY ON IRAN NUKES. :wink: