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Trump: Iran Deal Requires U.S. Protecting Iran in Event of Israeli Strike
jpupdates.com ^ | Jacob Kornbluh

Posted on 09/02/2015 9:21:32 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump unleashed on Tuesday another line of attack against the Iran nuclear deal, suggesting that the Iran deal would require the United States to fight Israel on Iran’s behalf if the Jewish State strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities.

In a phone interview with CNN Tuesday evening, Trump claimed that there’s “something in the Iran deal” that “people don’t understand” saying if someone attacks Iran, “we have to come to their defense.”

“Does that include Israel?” Trump asked. “And most people say yes, they don’t have an exclusion for Israel. So if Israel attacks Iran, according to that deal, I believe, the way it reads, unless they have a codicil or they have something to it, that we have to fight with Iran against Israel.”

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21 posted on 09/02/2015 9:31:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi)
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To: RoosterRedux
"Saying if someone attacks Iran, “we have to come to their defense"

Doesn't that require a treaty?

22 posted on 09/02/2015 9:32:54 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: RoosterRedux

And they won’t parole Charles Manson?

Our president is a much larger and expensive risk to every person on the globe. He has the potential to beat the body counts of Hitler, Mao, Stalin , and the bubonic plague with this suicide pact. I mean agreement.


23 posted on 09/02/2015 9:33:48 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Headline: “Iran deal requires US to protect Iran in event of strike”

Text you posted: Co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats including sabotage”

The headline implies that if Israel attacks Iran, the US would send troops to protect Iran and fight Israel. Ships, bombs, air defense, army etc...

The truth is (if the part you posted is the what the headline refers to) that we agreed to:
- help Iran prevent Israel from going after Iran’s nuclear programs (i.e. we’d teach them how to defend against a Stuxnet kind of attack),
- teach Iran how to protect its nuclear assets both electronically and physically.

This is bad enough - we should be working with Israel to demolish Iran’s nuclear programs, not teaching Iran how to defend them. However, I do not see the logical jump from what you posted to “we will put boots on the ground” defending Iran against an Israeli attack. Can you help me understand how we got from the text you posted, securing Iran’s nuclear assets, to the headline’s belief that we’d defend Iran from physical attack?


24 posted on 09/02/2015 9:34:59 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump campaign ad: Trump, in his Apprentice chair, saying "America, you're hired")
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To: marron
This agreement does the precise opposite of what it is presented to do. It shelters Iran’s nuclear weapons program and pays for it.

If we had a real congress he would have been impeached a long time ago. If we had a real senate he'd be in jail for this one, him and everyone of his co-conspirators.

25 posted on 09/02/2015 9:34:59 AM PDT by marron
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To: RoosterRedux

God is going to protect what He wants to protect.


26 posted on 09/02/2015 9:35:20 AM PDT by bergmeid
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To: RoosterRedux

Trump is just discovering this?


27 posted on 09/02/2015 9:35:31 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

break the GOPe at the polls, save the country.


28 posted on 09/02/2015 9:36:01 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Personal Responsibility

So maybe you’d be happier if the headline read “Iran deal requires US to protect Iran from a strike”...


29 posted on 09/02/2015 9:36:33 AM PDT by marron
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To: Personal Responsibility

I have just stumble across this. I am going to dig into it and will get back to you with what I find.


30 posted on 09/02/2015 9:36:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi)
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To: Sacajaweau
Sheer insanity!!

It would be if true. The text of the agreement is available online.

31 posted on 09/02/2015 9:37:56 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: RoosterRedux

I’ve been blasted for saying this here before but,

Doesn’t this potentially put us at war AGAINST Israel in the right circumstance???

Sure looks like it to me.


32 posted on 09/02/2015 9:38:12 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: RoosterRedux

What the muslim brotherhood does not realize, when iran is attacked by israel, the people of america will support the israelies... Those who side with the enemy, are the enemy.


33 posted on 09/02/2015 9:38:31 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: RoosterRedux

What we suspected all along...Obama is pushing this treaty to destroy Israel. Predictable from the man that says publicly he will stand with Islam...


34 posted on 09/02/2015 9:39:35 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: RoosterRedux
America is totally finished. This is no longer a Country because rapidly turning into a third world dictatorship. Miss Romney yet? And the stupid ignorant voters will turn down Trump. In a few years many Countries of the world could take over the Country without firing a shot.
35 posted on 09/02/2015 9:40:21 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Jewbacca

“The defense obligation is expressly in the document.”

Yes it is, but that won’t stop Israel from protecting itself.


36 posted on 09/02/2015 9:40:22 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: RoosterRedux

Here’s the piece that’s causing the confusion:

Co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage

The newspaper in your link highlights: “...and respond to nuclear security threats” and implies that’s what we’ve agreed to do.

That’s just a sentence fragment though. When you look at the whole sentence it says “We will help Iran, using training and workshops, learn how to respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage...”

While that’s bad enough, the out-of-context quote is simply not the meaning of the full sentence.


37 posted on 09/02/2015 9:41:17 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump campaign ad: Trump, in his Apprentice chair, saying "America, you're hired")
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To: marron

I’d be happier if the headline told the whole truth and didn’t take something in the article out of context, which it did.

I’m not in favor of helping Iran at all.
I am in favor of knowing what things actually say before getting all ticked off about them.


38 posted on 09/02/2015 9:43:15 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump campaign ad: Trump, in his Apprentice chair, saying "America, you're hired")
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To: Jewbacca

Link to the source text? I’d like to read it for myself.


39 posted on 09/02/2015 9:43:49 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump campaign ad: Trump, in his Apprentice chair, saying "America, you're hired")
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To: RoosterRedux

I can just see Obama leading those state parades in Tehran where they drive the missiles in public events. Obama will be the celebrated grand marshal.


40 posted on 09/02/2015 9:43:52 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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