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U.S. top nuclear negotiator admits that Iran can continue developing ballistic missiles under nuke deal

Feb 4, 2014 1:48 pm By Robert Spencer

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This deal is a disaster. A disaster of what proportions will only become clear in the coming months and years. But there is no doubt that it is a catastrophe — yet another manifestation of the failed approaches and fruitless policies that keep being applied again and again by Washington “diplomats” and “foreign policy experts,” despite their repeated abject and obvious failure. There is no accountability in Washington. The people who advocate these failed policies just keep on being appointed and reappointed to this and that position, where they keep on failing, but no one ever notices or cares.

“Iranian Ballistic Missile Program Can Continue Under Deal,” by Adam Kredo for the Washington Free Beacon, February 4:

The U.S.’s top nuclear negotiator admitted on Tuesday that Iran could continue developing ballistic missiles under the recently inked nuclear accord meant to scale back Tehran’s nuclear program.

Under pressure from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), U.S. negotiator Wendy Sherman conceded that the U.S. failed to “shut down” Iran’s ongoing development of ballistic missiles, which have long range capabilities and are the preferred weapon for delivering a nuclear payload.

“It is true that in these first six months we’ve not shut down all of their production of any ballistic missile that could have anything to do with delivery of a nuclear weapon,” Sherman told lawmakers during a hearing on the nuclear deal. “But that is indeed something that has to be addressed as part of a comprehensive agreement.”

This comprehensive agreement will not be agreed upon for at least six months, Sherman admitted, giving Tehran a lengthy window in which to perfect its weapons systems.

Iran plans to launch three new satellites into space in the coming weeks, according to regional reports. The technology used to conduct such a launch is similar to those used for ballistic missiles, leading experts to label Iran’s space program a cover for its ballistic missile work.

The “satellites are ready for launch and it is anticipated that one of them will be sent into orbit by the end of the current Iranian year,” which ends of March 20, the deputy head of Iran’s Space Agency was quoted as saying on Monday by the semi-official Fars News Agency.

Senators on the SFRC criticized Sherman, the State Department’s under secretary of state for political affairs, for inking a deal that they said leaves gaping “loopholes” on which Iran can capitalize.

“Why did you all not in this agreement in any way address the delivery mechanisms, the militarizing of nuclear arms, why was that left off since they [Iran] breached a threshold everyone acknowledges. They can build a bomb. We know that,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), the committee’s ranking member. “They know that. They have advanced centrifuges. We have a major loophole in the research and development area that everyone acknowledges.”

“We are going to allow them over this next year to continue to perfect the other piece of this, which is the [nuclear] delivery mechanism,” Corker added. “Why did we do that?”…

Why indeed?

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  1. Champ says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    “This deal is a disaster. A disaster of what proportions will only become clear in the coming months and years.”

    Indeed. Over the years Iran has made their intentions perfectly clear: “to wipe Israel off of the map”.

    • Islamisdeath says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 7:39 pm

      And then go after the U S. Yet we just shipped them a ton of money even as our own people are staggering under the stagnant economy. In his infinite wisdom imam obama send them money to purchase the necessary materials to try and blow up Israel and the USA!

      • Champ says

        Feb 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm

        True, islamisdeath! …yeah obama is a dangerous traitor.

  2. Buraq says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    Time to activate Stuxnet and other strings of code!

    Clowns! In Washington and Tehran.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 3:16 pm

    This so called “deal” with Iran is a sick joke and a hoax. For example the site in Iran of Parchin where researchers are bust at work weaponizing enriching uranium is outside of the inspectors reach limits. Furthermore, the House Intelligence Committee Chairman ,Mike Rogers, stated that the deal has
    “rewarded very bad and dangerous behavior” by Iran. He also said in the deal that “We have just encouraged more violence in the future that we have stopped.” Likewise, Rep. Peter King called this deal with Iran a “serious strategic mistake.” Moreover, at a group lecture that I attended where the guest speaker was in times past a Iranian citizen. a Muslim and a Hezbollah member but now a Christian and an American citizen was asked, near of his lecture, during the question and answer part. “What about this new Obama deal with Iran ?” The speaker answered “It is a disaster. It’s a disaster for Israel, it’s a disaster for the the Iranian people, it’s a disaster for America, It’s a disaster for the Middle East and a disaster for the world.”
    In short, this “deal” with Iran is a sick joke a hoax and a disaster.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    The amount of hatred expressed by these people leaves no doubt they do not plan to keep their part of the deal.

    • eib says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 5:07 pm

      There is nothing in their moral codes that requires them to deal honestly with those living beyond their tribal culture and backward religion.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 3:55 pm

    Obama and other leaders of the other Western countries are very naive and gullible if they actually feel ,in spite of all the facts, that some kind of constructive worthwhile good may come of this “dialogue” with the officials of “Rouhani, Ayatollah Khamenie and the mullahs who have supreme power in Iran. The they are all of the same mindset .That is that are not interested genuine negotiations. They will engage in these “talks” to stall for time and to get as much sanctions lifted as possible. This is not to, as they claim, to make life for easy for the Iranian people, but so the may hasten in a more easy to get the materials they need to go nuclear to construct W.M.D. This is what they are really after, get W.M. D. either by going nuclear by by some other way. This is because they in their Islamic extremist delusion actually believe that they are in the right to obtain and use W.M.D. They have this Islamic agenda in their own kind of Islam that is so powerful in Iran that they have become irrational in their Islamic fanaticism. So much is any “talks” the Western leaders hope to engage in will be act of of futility at best. Religious fanatics will not respond to reason and religious fanatics they are. An example of this is in the own type of Islam they have a belief in an Islamic messiah, which they call the Twelfth Imams or Mahdi. Which they belief will some day come and then set the whole world “right” in and Islamic way. Nevertheless, before this will happen things in the Middle East and the world need to get worse and not better. So to hasten the coming of this character they have the mad Islamic quest to obtain W.M.D. Of course this irrational mind set is very hard for most people of the West to understand since is’s based on Islamic fanaticism and not reason of logic. Still , such are the ways of Islamic madness Furthermore, they want W.M.D. because the hate the State of Israel, which they call the Little Satan. They hate the Untied States, which they call the Great Satan and they also hale all the countries of the west and all the non- Muslim people in them. Thus in any “talks” the Iranian officials will put into practice the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya. Which is the Islamic teaching that lying is a good this if it’s done for Islam. So in any “negotiation” the officials of this Islamic regime will be and have been very disingenuous and will dissimulate. They will speak the truth only when it happens to suite them. The rest of the time they will be lying and saying half- truths. To put this in another way, Thomas Jefferson had it right when he explained “An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.”

    • Salah says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 11:42 pm

      “Obama and other leaders of the other Western countries are very naive and gullible ”

      I respectfully disagree. They know very well what they’re doing, and that’s exactly what they want to achieve: the destruction of the West and the Judeo-Christian civilization.
      Why? because they are anti-God.

      • islamisdeath says

        Feb 5, 2014 at 12:40 pm

        I totally agree with you. If you watch western movies and TV now you will notice that the “bad guys” in every movie or program are wearing large crosses or have crosses tattooed on them or they are in the background behaving negatively or stupidly. Christians are regularly depicted in ways that ridicule them. Our children are being taught through subliminal and not so subliminal messages that Christianity is both evil and ridiculous.

        They must destroy Christianity in order to completely take our society down. Trouble is what they are going to get it its place is in fact pure evil. They are serving satan now but once he believes his mission is accomplished satan will then turn on them. Now is the time for all Christians to hold to what they believe.

  6. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 4:58 am

    pakistan has the bomb.. and they actively supress irans access to any technology or assistance. and even if they are successful, i think this is their (irans) number one threat.

    sunni / shia hatred.

    ++++++

    in fact, a scenario where iran decides to liberate the shia of iraq is just as likely. i think thats its overdue to become public. so iran have syria, iraq and pakistan to think about. all of with would drag iran into conflict that doesnt even involve the west.

    and if a back blocks nation like pakistan has kept a reign on using them, there is some hope that iran will also realise what destruction and unbiased slaughter is in their hands. hopefully. and wont want to be the ones who did use it. because they will be condemned, invaded and butchered. the world wont tolerate it.

  7. gravenimage says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    U.S. top nuclear negotiator admits that Iran can continue developing ballistic missiles under nuke deal
    …………………………………..

    All this deal has accomplished is to lull the clueless into a greater sense of security—the false idea that Iran has agreed to suspend developing nuclear arms, while emboldening Iran even further to make threats against us.

    Iran has a real leg up now that sanctions have been eased, but the West has gained nothing but the empty idea that we can pat ourselves on the back for being so enlightened to engage in “dialog” and “diplomacy”.

    This is far, far worse even than the status quo that existed before this “deal”. Suicidal madness.

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