Posted on 01/14/2016 1:14:23 AM PST by Libloather
"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.
In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.
The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/iran_deal_throws_sparks_on_mideast_tinderbox_128034.html
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Aug 2015...
DUH, Nancy!
And lets not forget the GOP and Mitch McConnell’s crony Senator Bob Corker, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman.
His Corker Bill was designed to grease the skids setting the bar for rejection of the Iran Nuke Deal at 2/3 of the Senate instead of 1/3.
It was done so companies like Boeing could do business with Iran, according to El Rushbo.
What was her first clue?
In other news water is wet
Yes, it is easy for Corker to hide himself as a nobody in the noise. And Ted Cruz railed against the 2/3 to 1/3 treaty inversion.
What an awful cast of despicable rotten characters the USA has inside the Beltway at this time in history. As Donald Trump says these people are so stupid or in the alternative so dishonest.
One of the “bad things” will be the acceleration of the development of a nuke...or the outright purchase of nukes.
They breed and are the “leaders”’ of our country.
Oh, pshaw. /s Thanks Libloather.
Putin is in bed with all the wrong people. He thinks he can use them and gain advantages of all sorts. Problem is he is still an infidel and doesn’t seem to get that.
Ted Cruz calls on next president to 'repudiate' Iran deal
By Ashley Killough, CNN
March 2015
Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)Sen. Ted Cruz argued Monday that any potential White House candidate who's not willing to reject the emerging deal with Iran over its nuclear development is "not fit to serve" as president.
Speaking at a Politics and Eggs breakfast in New Hampshire on Monday, Cruz urged the audience to press other contenders on whether they would "be willing to repudiate" a non-Congressional approved agreement reached with Iran should they become president.
"Any candidate in my view who will not say 'yes' to that is not fit to serve as commander in chief of this country," said Texas Republican senator.
Cruz was one of 47 GOP senators who signed a letter last week to Iran suggesting that the deal needs to be approved as a treaty by Congress in order for it remain a valid agreement when Obama leaves office in January 2017.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/16/politics/ted-cruz-iran-deal-repudiate/index.html
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Ted Cruz: Iran Deal's $50 Billion Signing Bonus Will Fund Terrorism
By Jason Devaney
July 2015
A $50 billion signing bonus that could be part of the Iran deal will be used to fund terrorism, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says.
During an interview at the Christians United For Israel conference in Washington, D.C. Monday, Cruz - a Republican candidate for president - said the so-called signing bonus will ultimately help terror groups attack Americans.
"One component [of this deal] I understand is a $50 billion signing bonus of frozen assets that would flow into Iran. That money, we know to an absolute certainty would be used to fund Hezbollah, Hamas, and radical Islamic terrorists throughout the Middle East, throughout Latin America and the world," Cruz said, the Christian Post reports.
"That money would be used to murder Americans, Europeans, Israelis. This deal, if it is consummated, would transform the United States government into being one of the leading financiers funding terrorism against Americans."
"It makes no sense whatsoever and we are going to have over the next couple of months a serious debate over the Iran deal. It is my hope that the American people will rise up. I would give a call of action of the men and women of CUFI that it is critical that each and every one of us reach out and highlight the threat."
Later, Cruz accused the Obama administration of "appeasement."
"The truth of the matter is that Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and President Obama are all perfectly fine with Iran having a nuclear weapon," Cruz said. "The inevitable outcome of this deal is either one of two things will happen. Either Iran will acquire nuclear weapons or there will be military conflict. This hardy deal makes military conflict more likely. ..."
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/ted-cruz-iran-nuclear-deal/2015/07/14/id/657083/#ixzz3r8ibCjPd
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Cruz: Iran deal is a 'historic mistake'
By Mark Hensch
April 2015
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday argued that finalizing any pact with Iran over its nuclear arms research would instantly produce one of the worst diplomatic deals of all time.
"It is a historic mistake," Cruz told listeners at the New Hampshire Republican Party's First In the Nation leadership summit in Nashua, N.H.
"Every year in Iran they celebrate 'Death to America Day,' " the 2016 GOP presidential hopeful added.
"If history teaches any principle, it is that if somebody says they want to kill you, believe them," he concluded.
Cruz argued that even a framework accord with Iran would jeopardize global safety. Setting its details in stone, he charged, would prove catastrophic. ..."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/239323-cruz-iran-deal-is-a-historic-mistake
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Ted Cruz: Iran nuclear deal 'the worst betrayal' of American terror victims
Sylvan Lane
November 4, 2015
WASHINGTON--Sen. Ted Cruz claimed the Obama Administration has prevented American terror victims from receiving compensation for their losses and called the Iranian nuclear deal "the worst betrayal."
Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate and one of the deal's most active critics, called the money it would release to Iran through sanctions relief "a national disgrace" during a Senate hearing on compensation for American victims of Iranian and Palestinian terror. ..."
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/ted-cruz-iran-palestine-terror.html/
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Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.
He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
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And a lot of people here don't seem to get that Putin himself is one of the wrong people. He's out to basically restore the Soviet Union, or something like it. He's been threatening and actually invading his neighbors in Eastern Europe, Russia's former Soviet states. He's forging alliances with all of these depot regimes largely to gain military advantage over the US and its NATO allies. He continues to this day (2015-2016) arming hostile leftist regimes throughout latin America. Yet Trump is so dumb, naive, or 'something else', he said this recently in regards to Putin:
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond"
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.
Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.
Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.
In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015
Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.
Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.
Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/
"Trump's relationship with Russia goes far back. In 1987, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was meeting with Soviet officials and negotiating the building of "luxury hotels" in Moscow and Leningrad.
A story at the time said Trump had met Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who mentioned how much his daughter had admired the "opulent" Trump Tower in New York City. This led to an invitation to Trump to visit the USSR. The story said Dubinin wrote a letter to Trump, who hosted a meeting with Soviet officials in New York.
The invitation to Moscow was issued by Intourist, the giant Soviet in-country travel organization which operated all the hotels for foreigners in the Soviet Union.
Intourist was created in 1929 by Joseph Stalin and run by KGB officials. Intourist hotels were designed for wealthy foreigners, and virtually all the Intourist guides were KGB informers. In fact, one aspect of their jobs was the recruitment of foreigners. ..."
Follow Trump's Money to Moscow
Renew America ^ | December 25, 2015 | Cliff Kincaid
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/151225
We should send Madeline Albright over to toast the deal, just to make it official, do evil mullahs drink champagne?
I wonder how many nukes you can buy from Pakistan or North Korea with $150 billion? Not too many,
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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What do you think?
As a way to further give the finger to the United States will Iranians use money from ‘the deal from hell’ to buy a nuke from Russian mobsters (wink wink) and use it to nuke Washington DC?
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