The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
nObama's greatest achievement
by Caroline B. Glick
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Who's Racist?
August is on pace to surpass the 1997 single-month record of 79 homicides in Chicago — so far this month there have been 78 homicides. This year to date, Chicago has recorded 487 homicides, compared to 491 for all of last year. The Windy City isn't alone. Many of our nation's largest cities have witnessed spikes in the murder rate, a disproportionate number having affected inner city black communities.
In this context, Donald Trump appealed to blacks to reconsider voting for Democrats. "African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control," he said. "To those I say ... what do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump?" The Donald's admittedly ham-handed appeal to blacks for their vote brought a quick and predictable response from liar-Hillary Clinton accusing Trump of being a "racist" and essentially warning blacks not to think for themselves. That was followed by Black Lives Matter chiming in, basically asserting that no matter what Trump says, he's a racist.
Interestingly, in a recent interview, New Black Panthers leader Quanell X agreed with Trump, saying that Democrats have "pimped like prostitutes" the black community for votes, but those same Democrats have done little to actually help. In an article for The Daily Signal, Kay Coles James argues that using this racist charge effectively closes down people, specifically in the black community, from hearing or even considering what a person so charged has to say. It's a tool the Left has been using with great effect for years on conservatives anytime they seek to appeal to minority voters.
Instead of truly addressing the real problems the Left's socialist policies have created and exacerbated in the inner city, Demo-gogues turn and blame the problems on those who have the least to do with them. And liar-Clinton is no different as she continues to double down on those old, failed Leftist policies, and calls racist anyone who would dare to challenge and point out their hypocrisy and failure. Sadly, it seems that too many within the black community will continue to accept the victimhood narrative preached by liar-Hillary and other leftist leaders who are all too happy to have pawns at their disposal. ~The Patriot Post
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Wasting Marine Manpower and Money
The Marine Corps will begin using gender-neutral job titles and course names in October. Barack nObama's Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, who recently announced that a new ship will be named for homosexual activist Harvey Milk, sent the following directive to Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller: "Please review the position titles throughout the Marine Corps and ensure that they are gender-integrated as well, removing 'man' from the titles." Among the changes, a former "Basic Infantryman" will now be a "Basic Infantry Marine," and a former "Tank Crewman" will now be an "Armor Marine."
The Marine Corps is proud to call all of its members, regardless of gender, Marines. So it would seem there is no harm done calling an "Infantryman" an "Infantry Marine." But the order is yet another waste of man person-power and taxpayer dollars to overhaul and reprint an untold number of doctrinal publications, administrative documents, signs and other such items in order to comply with nObama's puppet-secretary's order. The funds required for this policy directive would be much better invested in improving Marine fighting capabilities and morale. This type of waste does not go unnoticed by the Marines it affects.
Of note, the Marine Corps elected to retain the word "man" in several of its historically significant and fundamental terms, including "rifleman" and "mortarman." But after Defense Secretary Ash Carter refused the Marine Corps' attempts to protect its combat effectiveness by foregoing gender normalization, it's only a matter of time until those time-honored terms also collapse under PC pressure for "non-gendered pronouns." The nObama administration's highly publicized agenda betrays its commander in chief's priorities: political correctness over mission-effectiveness. ~The Patriot Post.
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Who is Responsible under
International Law for the New Gaza Wars?
by Louis René Beres
by Louis René Beres
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It is beginning again. As Hamas terrorists are attacking Israeli civilians with indiscriminate rocket fire, most recently in the southern city of Sderot, Israeli self-defense reactions are already being labeled "excessive" and "disproportionate."... As usual, international public opinion is quickly, if bizarrely, mobilizing against Israel's underlying supposed "occupation" of Jews living in their own Biblical land. But what of the facts? In Gaza, since 2005 at least, when every last Jew left, there has been no "occupation." There are no Israelis in Gaza. Systematic Hamas misrepresentations get progressively worse. Any such blame, however, has no basis in law. Regarding "proportionality," the actual legal requirement of proportionality contained in international humanitarian law the law of armed conflict has nothing to do with how many unfortunate deaths there might be on either side. Proportionality has nothing to do with each side incurring an equivalent number of deaths... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8838/gaza-international-law
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Covering the Bases
by John Cappello, Patrick Megahan, John Hannah, Jonathan Schanzer
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The Republic of Turkey has been a reliable staging point for U.S. forces for more than six decades. Turkish bases have historically provided the U.S. military easy access to multiple theaters without having to build new infrastructure or forge new agreements... Today, American forces in Turkey are targeting the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, manning key components of the European integrated missile defense system, providing logistics for regional operations, and deterring a resurgent Russia. However, the attempted coup of July 2016 and the war in Syria have revealed growing fractures in the U.S.-Turkish security relationship. Statements by Turkish officials in the wake of the coup suggesting that American officials were behind the failed putsch indicate that trust between the two countries is plummeting. Worryingly, these statements are now inciting anti-American sentiment across Turkey. Turkey’s decision to shut down U.S. operations against IS in the immediate aftermath of the coup, albeit temporarily, was also cause for alarm, even if it was a precautionary measure... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/john-cappello-covering-the-bases-reassessing-us-military-deployments-in-turkey-after-th/
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Rebranding Terror
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Thomas Joscelyn
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ On July 28, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, heretofore the emir of al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, delivered what seemed to be a major announcement. Although Julani lavished praise on both al Qaeda emir Ayman al-Zawahiri and his predecessor Osama bin Laden... he noted two apparent organizational changes. The first was that Jabhat al-Nusra was no more: Julani’s organization would henceforth be known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (JFS, or, in English, Conquest of the Levant Front). Second, Julani said that the renamed organization would have “no affiliation to any external entity.” Arab and Western media buzzed with news that Julani had announced his organization’s “split” or “break” from al Qaeda. Yet Julani never actually said that such a break was occurring, and a careful reading of his statement reveals numerous problems with this interpretation though some JFS figures have more definitively affirmed a split in interviews. More significantly, this reading ignores what we know of al Qaeda’s long-standing strategy. In fact, al Qaeda produced its own analysis of Julani’s message to the world—in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) Arabic-language newsletter Al-Masra...
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Iran and the future of the Middle East
by Clifford D. May
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Nixon went to China. nObama will not be going to Iran. The 1972 visit of President Richard M. Nixon to the People’s Republic included meetings with both Chairman Mao Zedong, the communist revolutionary leader, and Premier Zhou Enlai, the pragmatic head of the government... Detente and normalization of relations followed. By stark contrast, Ali Khamenei, the Islamic republic’s revolutionary leader, and Hassan Rouhani, the pragmatic president of the theocratic regime, will not deign even to share a bottle of pomegranate juice with Barack H. nObama, president of “satanic” America, their avowed “enemy.” President nObama appears unperturbed, confident that detente and normalization of relations — not to mention a more stable Middle East — lie at the end of the road he began to pave with his 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a nuclear deal that garnered neither Congress’ endorsement nor the public’s approval...Will we have a war with nuclear Iran in less than 5 months? Or threats like North Korea. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-iran-and-the-future-of-the-middle-east/
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nObama’s 10,000 Syrian Refugees
by FRED FLEITZ
by FRED FLEITZ
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The nObama administration announced this week that President nObama's November 2015 pledge to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to this country has been met... You may remember the nObama administration assured the American people last year not to worry about the risk from these refugees because processing them would take 18 to 24 months or longer. I wrote in a November 20, 2015 Fox News.com op-ed that processing of the 10,000 Syrian refugees President nObama agreed to admit late last year probably would be sped up to ensure they arrived while he was still in office and to prevent his successor from blocking these refugees. This is what happened. The nObama administration lied again...
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HHS Saying 'Drop Dead to Taxpayers
Paying That (nObamacare) Subsidy'
by SUSAN JONES
by SUSAN JONES
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Pay no attention to those big premium hikes, the nObama administration told nObamacare subscribers this week... "An estimated 73 percent of HealthCare.gov consumers could still purchase a plan for less than $75 per month, even if all final rates were to increase by double digits," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a news release issued on Wednesday. HHS is reassuring 73 percent of subscribers that they will get tax credits to keep their premiums "affordable." But what about the rest of the subscribers, who will face premium increases of 62 percent in Tennessee; 43 percent in Mississippi; and 23 percent in Kentucky, for example...Its called the death spiral. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/hhs-saying-drop-dead-to-taxpayers-paying-that-obamacare-subsidy?f=must_reads
VIDEO: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/mccaughey-hhs-saying-drop-dead-taxpayers-paying-obamacare-subsidy
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The Kremlin is attacking our democracy—
and our president let it happen
by John R. Schindler
{observer.com} ~ Practically every day we learn more about the Kremlin’s secret espionage offensive against our country. This week, we discovered that hackers linked to Russian intelligence have cracked into several think tanks in Washington, D.C... This should not surprise. Moscow considers targeted hacking such as this to be legitimate intelligence gathering, and the Kremlin’s interest in behind-scenes goings-on in our nation’s capital is perennially high. Russian intelligence has spied on Washington—our leaders, politicians, and their battalions of think-tank and media hangers-on—for many decades. This is nothing new. What is new and alarming is how brazen Kremlin spy operations against America have gotten of late. Everybody spies, but it’s usually wise to be somewhat discreet. The SpyWar is a marathon, not a sprint... http://observer.com/2016/09/why-obama-is-to-blame-for-russias-spywar-on-america/
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nObama, Mexico, Central America Conspiracy –
Flood US With Illegal Africans
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The weapon against the United States being utilized by aid recipient nations throughout our hemisphere and elsewhere against us is the flow of illegal aliens... That is also one of the primary weapons of choice the nObama regime has elected to use in the destruction of our nation. It’s understandable, although despicable, that our enemies have combined their efforts. Judicial Watch reports: Herds of African immigrants are being housed in shelters in the Mexican border town of Tijuana while they await entry into the United States under what appears to be a secret accord between the nObama administration, Mexico and the Central American countries the Africans transited on their journey north. A backlog of African migrants is overwhelming limited shelter space in Tijuana and Mexican officials blame the slow pace of U.S. immigration authorities in the San Isidro port of entry for granting only 50 asylum solicitations daily. It’s just a thought, but maybe they might want to deny the unwanted foreigners access to their nation by not engaging in the invasion of ours. That was a recommendation this writer made prior to Mr. Trump’s visit to Mexico but their time was short. It is, however, the type of thing President Nieto is capable of figuring out on his own, it seems obvious... http://rickwells.us/obama-mexico-central-america-conspiracy-africans/
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FBI files show liar-Clinton claimed
ignorance on classification
by foxnews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ Several dozen pages of documents released Friday from the FBI’s liar-Hillary Clinton email probe show the former secretary of state repeatedly claimed to have little training or understanding about the classification process... despite leading the department that handled such information on a regular basis and having a security clearance. The document dump also revealed the gaps that remain in the record. Not only were numerous sections – and entire pages – redacted, but the files showed the FBI could not obtain 13 liar-Clinton mobile devices that may have been used to send emails from her personal email address, in addition to two iPads. And they showed liar-Clinton claiming she could not recall numerous details. But perhaps most striking were liar-Clinton’s repeated statements regarding her grasp of the classification process. In response to the release, GOP Chairman Reince Priebus said liar-Clinton’s claims suggest she either is “incompetent” or “lied.”... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/02/fbi-releases-clinton-investigation-documents.html
CLICK TO READ THE DOCUMENTS: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/02/clinton-email-investigation-part-1.html
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The Left Sues to Force a Vote on
nObama’s Supreme Court Nominee
by ipatriot.com
{ipatriot.com} ~ A private attorney is suing to compel the federal courts to force the Senate to vote on nObama’s choice for supreme Court, Merrick Garland... The Constitution Center blog reports that on August 25, 2016, Steven S. Michel, a Santa Fe attorney, filed a federal lawsuit in Washington D.C. He, as a voter, is “seeking to compel the Senate to take some action on the Supreme Court nomination made by President nObama. The lawsuit does not demand a particular outcome, but only that the Senate be ordered to end its refusal to take any action until after the presidential election in November.” Be ordered – really?! Lawyer Michel claims that “that there is a crisis that threatens the balance and separation of power among our three branches of government,” and that, through the Senate’s non-action, they have, “divested the President of his constitutional power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court.” The lawsuit actually has four points – this is just the first. I won’t even bother with the other three, for they are completely irrelevant being that no court should even consider the first... http://ipatriot.com/left-sues-force-vote-obamas-supreme-court-
nominee/.
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nObama's greatest achievement
by Caroline B. Glick
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The time for complaining about President Barack nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran has passed. The time has come to overcome the damage enormous damage his signature foreign policy accomplishment has caused.
To understand why this is the case, it is important to understand the breadth and depth of nObama’s failure.
On August 4, during the course of a press conference, nObama gave his interim assessment of his nuclear agreement with Iran.
“It worked,” he insisted.
A year after the deal was signed, nObama argued, events have proven that he was right and the deal’s critics were wrong.
“You’ll recall that there were all these horror stories about how Iran was going to cheat and this wasn’t going to work and Iran was going to get $150 billion to finance terrorism and all these kinds of scenarios, and none of them have come to pass,” he proclaimed.
nObama then snidely swiped at the deal’s opponents saying that it would be “impressive” if the people who criticized the deal would own up to their mistakes and admit that it worked.
As it works out, everything that nObama said about the deal with Iran during his press conference was a lie.
Some of his lies became apparent within hours.
For instance, nObama falsely claimed that Israel now “acknowledges this has been a game changer and Iran has abided by the deal and they no longer have the sort of short-term breakout capacity that would allow them to develop nuclear weapons.”
Hours later, the Defense Ministry issued a stinging rebuke of nObama’s claim, parroted more diplomatically by the Prime Minister’s Office.
nObama’s press conference took place the day after The Wall Street Journal reported that in January 2016, the US sent an unmarked plane to the Tehran airport filled with $400 million in cash, on the same day Iran released four US hostages.
nObama angrily rejected allegations that the cash payment was a ransom payment for the hostages’ release. He insisted that the US had made the payment as the first installment of a $1.7b. payment the administration made to settle an Iranian government lawsuit against America.
nObama claimed that the administration agreed to the settlement at the urging of the Justice Department.
He said his administration was able to settle the dispute only due to the nuclear deal which placed US officials in direct contact with their Iranian counterparts for the first time in decades.
Within a day, nObama’s claims were exposed as lies. It turns out that Justice Department lawyers opposed the cash payout to Iran.
One of the hostages released in January told the media that the Iranians refused to allow the hostages to leave Iran until the airplane with the cash landed in the airport.
The Iranians, for their part, contemptuously mocked nObama, and stated openly that the $400m.was a ransom payment for the hostages.
Two weeks later, nObama’s State Department admitted that the $400m. was a payment for the hostages.
nObama’s principle claim is that due to his deal, Iran no longer has a short-term nuclear breakout capacity. He also says that in accordance with the deal, Iran has shipped its nuclear materials out of the country. These claims are both untrue and misleading.
On Thursday Reuters reported that Iran did not ship the quantities of low-enriched uranium out of the country in the quantities the deal required.
Last January, when the deadline arrived for Iran to comply with the deal’s clauses calling for it to move its uranium enriched to 3.5 percent and 20 percent out of the country and so enable the US and its European colleagues to cancel UN sanctions against it, it worked out that Iran had failed to comply.
Rather than acknowledge Iran’s failure and maintain the sanctions in accordance with their deal, the Americans and Europeans decided to move the goalpost closer to Iran.
They secretly decreased the amount of uranium the Iranians were required to part with. They then announced triumphantly that they were canceling UN sanctions because Iran had complied with the agreement.
Reuters reported that much of the low-enriched uranium Iran did remove from its territory wasn’t actually removed from its possession. Instead it was transferred to neighboring Oman, where it is held under Iranian guard and control.
nObama of course knows all of this. So his claims that the agreement “worked” are nothing more than a card trick meant to trick the American public.
nObama’s assertion that Iran’s breakout time to a nuclear arsenal has been slowed as a result of his deal is similarly a stretch of the imagination. The Iranians have suspended much of their prior centrifuge spinning. But that is only because they are now directing their efforts to developing and deploying more advanced centrifuges that will be able to enrich uranium to bomb grade material far more rapidly than the centrifuges they were required to retire.
Experts have already placed Iran’s post-deal nuclear breakout time at a mere six months. And Iran can leave the agreement – which it never actually signed or officially agreed to – anytime it wants.
While developing their next generation centrifuges, the Iranians are expanding the range and precision of their ballistic missiles, deploying them and increasing the size of their arsenals. Despite the fact that these actions are prohibited under US law and breach what was initially claimed about the ever-changing nuclear deal, the nObama administration has refused to impose sanctions against Iran, insisting that its actions merely breach the spirit, rather than substance, of the deal.
The administration has had a similar response to Iran’s recent deployment of Russia’s S-300 missile defense battery around its military nuclear site at Fordo. On Sunday Iranian television showed footage of the missiles being set up around the formerly secret site.
As Omri Ceren of the Israel Project noted this week, Iran’s deployment of the S-300 system places it in breach of three US sanctions laws. Despite this, the White House announced on Wednesday that it has no intention of enforcing US law and applying sanctions on Iran. The S-300 missiles can be used both as a defensive system and as an offensive one.
On Tuesday, Tehran announced that it will be launching three satellites in the coming months.
Satellite launches are widely viewed as a means through which Iran is covertly developing a longrange ballistic missile capability. Rather than censure Iran for its actions, the nObama administration insists that such actions, as well as Iran’s recent longrange rocket tests, do not violate the nuclear deal or warrant US action.
Taken separately and together, Iran’s actions since the nuclear deal was officially concluded make clear that it continues to pursue its nuclear program, and indeed, has become more brazen in its nuclear operations than it was before the agreement was announced last year.
In other words, not only has the deal not worked, contrary to nObama’s claims, it has been a colossal failure on every level. The deal’s opponents were entirely right about the dangers it posed and nObama was entirely wrong.
This is true as well in relation to the administration’s qualified promises that the deal would lead to better relations between the US and Iran. As Shoshana and Stephen Bryen noted last week following the Iranian naval assault on the USS Nitze in the Strait of Hormuz, with its repeated harassment of US naval ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is clearly practicing its tactic of swarming US naval craft as a preparation for a real strike against them.
The main reason that Iran’s nuclear program is such a grave concern for Israel and for other Middle Eastern states is that the Iranian regime has hegemonic ambitions. It seeks to destroy Israel and dominate the entire region.
Since it concluded the deal with Washington, Iran has surged its forces and massively expanded its power projection throughout the region.
On Thursday the Daily Mail reported that the commonly held belief that Iran commands 16,000 troops in Syria is wrong. According to the National Council of Resistance in Iran, the regime actually commands 60,000 forces in Syria, deployed throughout the country. The entire Syrian army today numbers a mere 50,000 men.
On August 4, nObama mocked claims that Iran would spend its windfall profits of $100b.-$150b from the sanctions relief the nuclear deal offered to fund terrorism. Yet, according to the Daily Mail report, to date Iran has spent $100b. on the war in Syria.
The implications of the report are blood curdling.
They mean that despite nObama’s denials, the funds Iran has received as a result of the sanctions relief he brought about through his nuclear deal have paid for Iran’s war in Syria. That war has caused the death of nearly half a million people and forced more than 11 million people to flee their homes.
Obviously, it is important for Americans to know the truth about the Iran deal and its consequences as they consider their votes for nObama’s replacement.
One of Democratic nominee liar-Hillary Clinton’s top candidates for secretary of state is Wendy Sherman.
Sherman was the chief negotiator of nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
For Israel, the question of what to do about Iran now is far more urgent than it is for Americans.
Today more and more commentators are voicing concern over the prospect that nObama will support an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council as a parting shot at Israel.
But any such resolution will be small potatoes in comparison to the strategic devastation his nuclear deal, which is his main foreign policy legacy, has caused.
The rapidity of Iran’s advance makes clear that there is no justification for waiting to act until nObama has left office. If it doesn’t act soon, Israel is on the fast track to waking up one morning and discovering it has no means of thwarting the threat.
Indeed, with each passing month, its options for action become more and more limited.
After Israel’s security leadership undermined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to attack Iran’s nuclear installations in 2010 and 2012, Netanyahu settled on a strategy of blocking nObama’s moves to appease Tehran.
That strategy of course failed last summer. Since then, Netanyahu has worked to build an anti-Iranian alliance with the Sunni Arab states. His efforts in this area have clearly met with some measure of success, as witnessed by public statements from prominent Saudis and others.
Whatever that success may be, and whatever the status of that burgeoning alliance of spurned US allies, the fact is that it’s time Israel and its new allies do something more than send signals. Time is a-wasting.
Last spring Brig.-Gen. Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, said, “Today the grounds for the annihilation and collapse of the Zionist regime are more present than ever before.”
Thanks to nObama, he may be right.
It is time for Israel to make him eat his words.
To understand why this is the case, it is important to understand the breadth and depth of nObama’s failure.
On August 4, during the course of a press conference, nObama gave his interim assessment of his nuclear agreement with Iran.
“It worked,” he insisted.
A year after the deal was signed, nObama argued, events have proven that he was right and the deal’s critics were wrong.
“You’ll recall that there were all these horror stories about how Iran was going to cheat and this wasn’t going to work and Iran was going to get $150 billion to finance terrorism and all these kinds of scenarios, and none of them have come to pass,” he proclaimed.
nObama then snidely swiped at the deal’s opponents saying that it would be “impressive” if the people who criticized the deal would own up to their mistakes and admit that it worked.
As it works out, everything that nObama said about the deal with Iran during his press conference was a lie.
Some of his lies became apparent within hours.
For instance, nObama falsely claimed that Israel now “acknowledges this has been a game changer and Iran has abided by the deal and they no longer have the sort of short-term breakout capacity that would allow them to develop nuclear weapons.”
Hours later, the Defense Ministry issued a stinging rebuke of nObama’s claim, parroted more diplomatically by the Prime Minister’s Office.
nObama’s press conference took place the day after The Wall Street Journal reported that in January 2016, the US sent an unmarked plane to the Tehran airport filled with $400 million in cash, on the same day Iran released four US hostages.
nObama angrily rejected allegations that the cash payment was a ransom payment for the hostages’ release. He insisted that the US had made the payment as the first installment of a $1.7b. payment the administration made to settle an Iranian government lawsuit against America.
nObama claimed that the administration agreed to the settlement at the urging of the Justice Department.
He said his administration was able to settle the dispute only due to the nuclear deal which placed US officials in direct contact with their Iranian counterparts for the first time in decades.
Within a day, nObama’s claims were exposed as lies. It turns out that Justice Department lawyers opposed the cash payout to Iran.
One of the hostages released in January told the media that the Iranians refused to allow the hostages to leave Iran until the airplane with the cash landed in the airport.
The Iranians, for their part, contemptuously mocked nObama, and stated openly that the $400m.was a ransom payment for the hostages.
Two weeks later, nObama’s State Department admitted that the $400m. was a payment for the hostages.
nObama’s principle claim is that due to his deal, Iran no longer has a short-term nuclear breakout capacity. He also says that in accordance with the deal, Iran has shipped its nuclear materials out of the country. These claims are both untrue and misleading.
On Thursday Reuters reported that Iran did not ship the quantities of low-enriched uranium out of the country in the quantities the deal required.
Last January, when the deadline arrived for Iran to comply with the deal’s clauses calling for it to move its uranium enriched to 3.5 percent and 20 percent out of the country and so enable the US and its European colleagues to cancel UN sanctions against it, it worked out that Iran had failed to comply.
Rather than acknowledge Iran’s failure and maintain the sanctions in accordance with their deal, the Americans and Europeans decided to move the goalpost closer to Iran.
They secretly decreased the amount of uranium the Iranians were required to part with. They then announced triumphantly that they were canceling UN sanctions because Iran had complied with the agreement.
Reuters reported that much of the low-enriched uranium Iran did remove from its territory wasn’t actually removed from its possession. Instead it was transferred to neighboring Oman, where it is held under Iranian guard and control.
nObama of course knows all of this. So his claims that the agreement “worked” are nothing more than a card trick meant to trick the American public.
nObama’s assertion that Iran’s breakout time to a nuclear arsenal has been slowed as a result of his deal is similarly a stretch of the imagination. The Iranians have suspended much of their prior centrifuge spinning. But that is only because they are now directing their efforts to developing and deploying more advanced centrifuges that will be able to enrich uranium to bomb grade material far more rapidly than the centrifuges they were required to retire.
Experts have already placed Iran’s post-deal nuclear breakout time at a mere six months. And Iran can leave the agreement – which it never actually signed or officially agreed to – anytime it wants.
While developing their next generation centrifuges, the Iranians are expanding the range and precision of their ballistic missiles, deploying them and increasing the size of their arsenals. Despite the fact that these actions are prohibited under US law and breach what was initially claimed about the ever-changing nuclear deal, the nObama administration has refused to impose sanctions against Iran, insisting that its actions merely breach the spirit, rather than substance, of the deal.
The administration has had a similar response to Iran’s recent deployment of Russia’s S-300 missile defense battery around its military nuclear site at Fordo. On Sunday Iranian television showed footage of the missiles being set up around the formerly secret site.
As Omri Ceren of the Israel Project noted this week, Iran’s deployment of the S-300 system places it in breach of three US sanctions laws. Despite this, the White House announced on Wednesday that it has no intention of enforcing US law and applying sanctions on Iran. The S-300 missiles can be used both as a defensive system and as an offensive one.
On Tuesday, Tehran announced that it will be launching three satellites in the coming months.
Satellite launches are widely viewed as a means through which Iran is covertly developing a longrange ballistic missile capability. Rather than censure Iran for its actions, the nObama administration insists that such actions, as well as Iran’s recent longrange rocket tests, do not violate the nuclear deal or warrant US action.
Taken separately and together, Iran’s actions since the nuclear deal was officially concluded make clear that it continues to pursue its nuclear program, and indeed, has become more brazen in its nuclear operations than it was before the agreement was announced last year.
In other words, not only has the deal not worked, contrary to nObama’s claims, it has been a colossal failure on every level. The deal’s opponents were entirely right about the dangers it posed and nObama was entirely wrong.
This is true as well in relation to the administration’s qualified promises that the deal would lead to better relations between the US and Iran. As Shoshana and Stephen Bryen noted last week following the Iranian naval assault on the USS Nitze in the Strait of Hormuz, with its repeated harassment of US naval ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is clearly practicing its tactic of swarming US naval craft as a preparation for a real strike against them.
The main reason that Iran’s nuclear program is such a grave concern for Israel and for other Middle Eastern states is that the Iranian regime has hegemonic ambitions. It seeks to destroy Israel and dominate the entire region.
Since it concluded the deal with Washington, Iran has surged its forces and massively expanded its power projection throughout the region.
On Thursday the Daily Mail reported that the commonly held belief that Iran commands 16,000 troops in Syria is wrong. According to the National Council of Resistance in Iran, the regime actually commands 60,000 forces in Syria, deployed throughout the country. The entire Syrian army today numbers a mere 50,000 men.
On August 4, nObama mocked claims that Iran would spend its windfall profits of $100b.-$150b from the sanctions relief the nuclear deal offered to fund terrorism. Yet, according to the Daily Mail report, to date Iran has spent $100b. on the war in Syria.
The implications of the report are blood curdling.
They mean that despite nObama’s denials, the funds Iran has received as a result of the sanctions relief he brought about through his nuclear deal have paid for Iran’s war in Syria. That war has caused the death of nearly half a million people and forced more than 11 million people to flee their homes.
Obviously, it is important for Americans to know the truth about the Iran deal and its consequences as they consider their votes for nObama’s replacement.
One of Democratic nominee liar-Hillary Clinton’s top candidates for secretary of state is Wendy Sherman.
Sherman was the chief negotiator of nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
For Israel, the question of what to do about Iran now is far more urgent than it is for Americans.
Today more and more commentators are voicing concern over the prospect that nObama will support an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council as a parting shot at Israel.
But any such resolution will be small potatoes in comparison to the strategic devastation his nuclear deal, which is his main foreign policy legacy, has caused.
The rapidity of Iran’s advance makes clear that there is no justification for waiting to act until nObama has left office. If it doesn’t act soon, Israel is on the fast track to waking up one morning and discovering it has no means of thwarting the threat.
Indeed, with each passing month, its options for action become more and more limited.
After Israel’s security leadership undermined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to attack Iran’s nuclear installations in 2010 and 2012, Netanyahu settled on a strategy of blocking nObama’s moves to appease Tehran.
That strategy of course failed last summer. Since then, Netanyahu has worked to build an anti-Iranian alliance with the Sunni Arab states. His efforts in this area have clearly met with some measure of success, as witnessed by public statements from prominent Saudis and others.
Whatever that success may be, and whatever the status of that burgeoning alliance of spurned US allies, the fact is that it’s time Israel and its new allies do something more than send signals. Time is a-wasting.
Last spring Brig.-Gen. Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, said, “Today the grounds for the annihilation and collapse of the Zionist regime are more present than ever before.”
Thanks to nObama, he may be right.
It is time for Israel to make him eat his words.
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