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Iran to get $700 billion in sanctions relief

Jul 22, 2015 6:08 pm By Robert Spencer

Zarif-laughingThis will pay for a great deal of jihad terror.

“Former Israeli Ambassador: Iran to Get $700 Billion in Sanctions Relief,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, July 22, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Iran is slated to receive some $700 billion in sanctions relief and economic windfalls as a result of a recently inked nuclear accord reached with global powers, according to former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren.

Oren, citing Israeli government sources, claimed in a recent op-ed that the Obama administration is being deceitful about the full cost of reaching a deal with Iran.…

“These [sanctions] cannot be ‘snapped back’ if Iran were to violate the deal, as its defenders contend, but reinstated only after a lengthy international process that excludes all the contracts signed by Iran before it were to cheat,” Oren writes in Politico.

“As such, the deal serves as an incentive for foreign companies to sign a great number of short- and medium-term contracts with Iran,” according to Oren. “The windfall is estimated to reach $700 billion, according to Israeli government sources.”

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  1. Alan Fontana says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    $700 billion buys enough bootleg Plutonium so that the centrifuges can stay squeaky clean for the inspectors.

    • umbra says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 7:06 am

      Plutonium is generally produced from functional fissile reactors through U238 neutron capture. Those iranian centrifuges are intended to purity (increase) U235 concentration in uranium stocks (which consists mostly of U238). Iran could mass produce P239 from its (planned – under construction?) heavy water reactor, if spent fuel from this reactor is processed in a clandestine (unaccounted) manner.

      • Alan Fontana says

        Jul 23, 2015 at 8:34 am

        I was only aware of the role of the centrifuges. These were thwarted by the Stuxnet virus making their activity random, invalidating known purity of U235 in them.

        The virus actually reported the activity in detail to two IP’s which disappeared immediately upon their discovery. The virus infected the secure nuclear project when scientists brought work home on their thumb drives and plugged them into computers on the internet.
        It would be nice to be able to monitor the reactors making Pu239.

        Making Pu is worse than Iran buying Pu. If they can make it they can sell it, probably not to Uncle Sam. The US should be using Thorium-Uranium anyway. Last I read, 75 lbs of Pu was unaccounted for in the world. One thimbleful, properly distributed, could kill every human on the planet.

        While the centrifuges are working the way inspectors approve, Iran could be loading Pu onto a hijacked commercial jet, which would be a human disaster even if it were shot down.

        • umbra says

          Jul 23, 2015 at 11:18 am

          The stuxnet worm was probably intended to slow down iran’s R&D into centrifuges by damaging them (at least some of their test centrifuges). By itself, stuxnet could not have stop iranian centrifuges indefinitely.

          There are two routes to attaining nukes: U235 which requires enrichment (perhaps 80% U235 as in littleboy); or Pu239. iran is pursuing infrastructures that supports both routes. In addition to this, iran is already making efforts in developing exploding bridgeware detonators. While this type of detonator has civil applications, it is also a crucial component in a nuke – without which a nuke could fizzle (explode with lower blast yield) or even fail to achieve nuclear detonation.

          If iran does eventually (only a matter of time once their HW reactor becomes operational) acquired sufficient Pu239, it would be unlikely to waste it on radiation poisoning efforts/attacks. It would more likely try and turn it into a fissile bomb. There are other poisonous and radioactive materials, unsuitable for making nukes, that would pose significant hazard to any exposed population.

        • Alan Fontana says

          Jul 23, 2015 at 12:19 pm

          At any rate, scary in Iran’s hands. Their acquisition of means of detonating a fission reaction is scary. We did not have it down in ‘little man.’ I read that the amount of U235 which went fissile was smaller than a matchbook
          (by volume? weight?).
          You seem to have your finger on the pulse of Iran’s nuclear progress. How soon and to whom will the first bomb be ‘delivered?’ I was particularly alerted by 0bama’s jesting statement that ‘even without the treaty, Iran was months away from having a deliverable nuclear bomb’ Months? My own theory is that men who approve of strapping bombs to young girls and babies possess the cowardice which precludes an attack on Israel.
          I think they would love to bomb the Vatican.
          To men living in the Middle Ages, the Crusades were yesterday.

        • umbra says

          Jul 23, 2015 at 1:40 pm

          Most fissile material in nukes would not be burnt (fission) since shockwave from the explosive force would blast most of the material away before they have a chance to undergo fission.

          Whether or not iran has sufficient fissile materials to assemble a nuke within months is unclear. Intelligence services of various nations may have an idea, but ultimately only iranians know. Regardless, it remains to be seen if the “accord” between P5 + 1 (why was Germany even in the negotiation process?) and iran would ultimately prevent iran from getting the bomb.

          If iran attains sufficient highly enriched (~80%) U235 in useful quantity (presumably around the same weight as littleboy ~140 lb), it could construct a simple gun type bomb like littleboy. Such a type of weapon would not require a exploding bridgeware detonator, but it lacks certain safety features inherent in implosion type nukes. In addition, this gun type nuke would likely be very large and heavy (a few tons). Therefore, initial iranian nukes (whether gun type or implosion type) would be too big and heavy to be strapped on to people or shipped to non-state parties (e.g. hezbollah, hamas, other terrorist groups). These proto-nukes would likely be delivered by ballistics missiles or warplanes (perhaps kamikaze type).

          To miniaturise nukes would require some degree of nuke building experience which iran does not have at the moment. However, given time with minimal or no impediment, it will eventually get there. In so far as backpack/suitcase (super miniaturised – few tens of kg) nukes, the blast yield would be very small (few tens of tons to a few kilotons) compared with common superpowers’ warheads (100 kT to 500 kT). Nevertheless, even small nukes would do tremendous damage to intended targets (and immediate vicinity), plus there is also radiological pollution in the aftermath.

          iran is likely to be many years (decades?) away from developing a suitcase size bomb. That said, this would be the most problematic size nuke since is it easy to transport and can be produced in quantity. While one of these going off in population centres may not cause catastrophic structural (or radiological) damage to an entire city, it would be extremely disruptive with the mass panic that it would inevitably cause.

        • Alan Fontana says

          Jul 23, 2015 at 2:33 pm

          My best guess as to why Germany was included as a member but separate entity from the P5 for the purposes of ratifying this treaty, might be that at this point Germany is the ‘strongest link in the EU’ and a deciding factor in whether the EU survives or dissolves.
          And the EU represents a GNP of 18 trillion $-US. In a real sense the EU is a group of cooperating nations not unlike the UN itself.
          So perhaps Germany was chosen to represent the EU ?
          Well, they’ve signed the agreement, now it remains to be seen to what extent they are prepared should Iran’s bite be worse than its bark.

  2. cs says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    Been bad pays off, that is the lesson, it is so fxcked up, can’t really see the logic of it all.

    • spot on says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 3:06 pm

      A small handful of “connected” businesses will benefit from Iranian weapons related trade. This will be at the expense of the rest of the civilized world. B.O. represents and is part of the uncivilized world.

  3. Tom dee says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 6:38 pm

    The deal is going to happen and the only thing that will happen is the USA will not be part of the huge Iranian market.

  4. Sam says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    So yours and mine tax dollars are going to our sworn enemy and we have no say in this matter ha? How come there are no riots on the streets of America? This is crazy even for a liberal mind I hope. How come we became a nation of complacent ignorant people who do not care about the future of our children? Iran will nuke us I am convinced.

  5. Angemon says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    Iran is slated to receive some $700 billion in sanctions relief and economic windfalls as a result of a recently inked nuclear accord reached with global powers, according to former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren.

    I’m sure that the black market dealers are running their hands out of joy already.

    Oren, citing Israeli government sources, claimed in a recent op-ed that the Obama administration is being deceitful about the full cost of reaching a deal with Iran.

    To be honest, at this point, dishonesty in the Obama administration is a “dog bites man” story…

    • Godwin says

      Jul 22, 2015 at 10:05 pm

      Is this OObaamaa mad ? Is he a stealth jihadist? His father is a shiite of the Iranian kind n so is he.
      Is he trying to get even with the white policemen for killing his black people.? .

  6. mortimer says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    Shudder.

  7. Wellington says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    Again I write, “Munich II.”

    • Stephanie says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 4:56 am

      … and Nuernberg 2.0 (judgement)

  8. Edward says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    Is Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, the shakedown artists teaching Iran how to ask for a retainer? Oh yeah, will BO get a kickback from the $700 Billion from the Sanctions Relief?

  9. Champ says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 11:35 pm

    He’s laughing *at* us! …who can blame him?

    • RG says

      Jul 26, 2015 at 11:35 am

      @Champ. Yeah, and all the liberal leftards think it’s a ‘good’ thing! DUMBASSES!!!!!

  10. Evolution says

    Jul 22, 2015 at 11:50 pm

    Wouldn’t it be a pleasant fiction if Iranians were happy for a change and they kicked Khomeini’s ass right out the door ?
    Then again, I’d only be lying to myself here.
    islam is islam. Don’t let the space between the last 2 words fool you 🙂

  11. Edward says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 12:54 am

    The Persians have savored the Western culture before. If only they would return to be Pro Westerners again they would profit more and have less human losses if only they would kick out Theocracy and rid their dumb world domination kick! It would be the smartest thing Iran could do! They could bring sanity back to the Middle East again. Reason would save Iran. Emotions will bring demise of one of the smartest people in the world!

    Don’t forget: At one time not too long ago AL El Airlines serviced Tehran in peace.

  12. lothos says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 1:37 am

    …on the plus-side, over 50% of iran’s population is under 35 years old…and a quite a significant amount of them have family living outside of the country, they get international tv shows and despise the ruling mullahs and imams….so maybe, just maybe, before iran manages to make a nuke (…and use it…), the country may have another revolution…

    …while i personally don’t condone the potential bloodshed that such an event would generate, it may, if it occurs, prevent even more deaths in the long run…

  13. Brian Hoff says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 2:51 am

    This is the best deal the five permant member of the UN can get than the GOP will be called the Idiot party by the america people it they donot approval of it. It like when Nixion got the first Treaty on limiting future growth of nuclear weapon it Nixon have command that the USSR give up all nuclear weapon while america kept her the USSR would not agree to just than agreement.

    • duh_swami says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 6:32 am

      Brian…Greetings from the mother ship…It clear that the negotiators on both sides were jinn.
      John Kerry, sometimes called ‘Lurch’, is a jinn. When jinn make deals with jinn, the outcome is sure to be jinnish.
      #Jinn have feelings too…#Support your local jinn…
      It’s the Islamic thing to do…

    • john spielman says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 8:26 am

      dear Brian; you know the US senate will NOT approve it as most Americans are against it Iranian mullahs laugh and chant death to America even as it was being discussed by john Kerry. Iranian mullahs and ISIS are the best thing for the world in the long run as it educates us all as to how completely vile and evil your religion of death really is! After all islam is based on the ranting’s of insane muhammed (pbuh* )who was a demon possessed mass murderer thief liar adulterer misogynist and pedophile pervert!
      pbuh*- PERPETUAL BANISHMENT UNTO HELL!

    • RG says

      Jul 26, 2015 at 11:41 am

      @Brian Hoff. You know you’d be much happier as a suicide bomber somewhere in remote Afgaffmuzzistan! DO YA STILL WIPE YOUR ASS WITH YOUR BARE LEFT HAND?????

  14. Scott M says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 6:03 am

    There will be a massive war – its a certainty and probably nuclear to stop these maniacs. Obama has armed and emboldened our enemies. There is no way Iran will not behave even worse than they have to date.

  15. Michelle Wayne says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 6:23 am

    Obama is doing everything he can to make sure to destroy USA before he is gone, he wants to be remember for the horrible deal he made for the citizens of USA,I think after he is finished and I think he should be now finished he will have to live in Tehran, mind boggles.

  16. duh_swami says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 6:37 am

    The deal that was a gift…Giving aid and comfort to the enemy has a name, but I forget what it is, but I think it has severe penalties. Of course if the elite have also forgotten that word. nothing will be done about it, nothing at all…

    • Edward says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 9:12 am

      HOW ABOUT A TRAITOR!

      US Constitution Article 3 Section 3 TREASON

      “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”

      SEDITION – incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.

      • Alan Fontana says

        Jul 23, 2015 at 9:30 am

        I did not sign that (whitehoue.gov) petition to secede from the Union because that signature could convict me of sedition against the US, under the US Constitution.

        Let’s get Hillary and a few others before Trey Gowdy and his committee, to go over that Benghazi affair again for us.

  17. Stephanie says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 6:41 am

    pic :

    THE IRAN “DEAL” :

    Police officer, “I have to check your car for drugs.”
    “What NOW?”
    “NO, in one month (24 days)”

    https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.meyer.925/posts/971593556215723?pnref=story

    Still up to date: Iran-‘DEAL’ (start) Joachim Nikolaus Steinhöfel “… LOST through the incompetence and naivete of the new U.S. government (Obama)”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvXomgy31ks

  18. Anne Wanger says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 8:46 am

    Which gov’t is giving them this $700 billion?

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 9:45 am

      They are frozen assets, mainly cash balances in frozen bank accounts, but I’d imagine also titles of ownership on oil that at the time of the sanctions were put int place at that day’s market price before moving the black gold on down the processing and supply chain. So no government will be paying them the money, a large number of banks and oil distributors and refiners will.

      ***

      These [sanctions] cannot be ‘snapped back’ if Iran were to violate the deal.

      No, the sanctions can’t be snapped back. But, we missed an opportunity to make the deal more palatable to the Persians. What we shoulda done was demand that Iran fund a massively widespread series of interfaith outreach programs to take place in our grade schools, high schools and colleges, and for the post-ed crowd a series of hour long interfaith dialogs on prime time national TV, and I’m talking networks like NBC here, not the bobblehead network from Microsoft and NBC that nobody watches. I’m talking interfaith dialog one minute ads during the Super Bowl.

      This would have led the Persians to comply with the deal, and would lead both sides to a peaceful conclusion to the conflict by way of making a better understanding of the other side. By understanding our religious differences, the likelihood of nuclear holocaust by the Persians would disappear.

  19. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    This travesty of deal with Iran will only enable this hideous Islamic tyranny to send even more funds , support an supplies that it did before to the many cruel ,malicious and murderous jihad terror Islamic groups .Such as Hamas, Hezbollah and even the Taliban. This is some of the evil fruits of this “deal” with Iran. Furthermore this Islamic dictatorship which has many mullahs and ayatollahs in power ,who are so ruthless and oppressive over Iranian people as well as the vicious and deadly intentions those same Muslim clerics have for the people of other countries. Those Islamic clerics in power in Iran may be described in the Bible in Psalm 73:6-9. Which reads “Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their minds know no limits. They scoff and speak with malice.; in their arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven ,and their tongues take possession of the earth.” [N.I.V.]

  20. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    It must be that the naive and gullible politicians of the West are no match in negotiations with the sly, insidious and deceptive Islamic fiends who have great power in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
    This so called “deal” with Iran is a sick and tragic joke. Any thinking person after really looking at this “deal” will see that it’s a farce,a hoax and a disaster.

    • Anne says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 3:37 pm

      No, my question is is it the US that will pay Iran the $700 billion or is it another country? Who is coughing up that amount of money?

  21. duh_swami says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    ‘Never underestimate the enemy’…Every time I forget that I get my rear end kicked…Fortunately I have two of them, I always keep one in reserve, just in case…

  22. Richard Ccourtemanche says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    Seems like a lot; is that possible? All that big money at the top and so much poverty.

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