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Obama will veto counter-terror measures to save the Iran nuke deal

Dec 21, 2015 5:08 pm By Robert Spencer

“If the Americans pursue the plan, they will destroy an achievement with their own hands since it is against the [nuclear deal], and it will trouble them.” The nuclear deal is going to trouble us in any case.

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“Obama Admin Will Veto Counter-Terror Measures to Save Nuke Deal,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, December 21, 2015:

Secretary of State John Kerry is working to reassure Iranian leaders that recent congressional efforts to tighten counter-terrorism measures will not harm Iranian interests, according to a letter sent by Kerry to Iran’s foreign minister.

The assurances come following efforts by Congress to tighten restrictions in the visa waiver program, which they claim has gaping loopholes that may enable suspected terrorists to legally enter the United States with few background checks.

Iranian leaders expressed anger over the move in recent days, prompting senior Obama administration officials to convey their own concerns to lawmakers.

Kerry wrote to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif late last week, promising that the Obama administration could veto these new counter-terrorism laws in order ensure Iran is not negatively impacted.

“I want to confirm to you that we remain fully committed to the sanctions lifting provided for under the [nuclear deal],” Kerry wrote Zarif in a Dec. 19 letter that came a day after the two met in person. “We will adhere to the full measure of our commitments, per the agreement. Our team is working hard to be prepared and as soon as we reach implementation day we will lift appropriate sanctions.

A copy of the letter was obtained and published by the National Iranian American Council, a pro-Iran advocacy group long suspected by critics of working on behalf of the Iranian regime.

Kerry vows to ignore new counter-terrorism measures if they impact the administration’s ability to uphold the deal. Iran in recent months has already been accused in recent months of violating the accord by testing multiple ballistic missiles that could carry a nuclear payload.

“I am also confident that the recent changes in visa requirements passed in Congress, which the administration has the authority to waive, will not in any way prevent us from meeting our [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] commitments, and that we will implement them so as not to interfere with legitimate business interests of Iran,” Kerry wrote, outlining the “tools” the administration has to ignore new visa waiver restrictions.

“We have a number of potential tools available to us, including multiple entry ten-year business visas, programs for expediting business visas, and the waiver authority provided under the new legislation,” Kerry wrote. “I am happy to discuss this further and provide any additional clarification.”

Stephen Mull, the State Department official in charge of implementing the Iran deal, warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late last week that recent congressional efforts to tighten restrictions “could have a very negative impact on the deal.”

Iranian leaders also have expressed anger over the situation.

Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, said last week that newly tightened measures “are aimed at harassment” and that they “blatantly violate the nuclear agreement,” according to comments carried by the Iranian state-controlled press.

Larijani warned that this action will detonate the deal before it has even been implemented.

“If the Americans pursue the plan, they will destroy an achievement with their own hands since it is against the [nuclear deal], and it will trouble them,” he warned….

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  1. David A says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    What deal? Iran has yet to sign anything and is already in violation.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 11:09 pm

      Yep.

    • Bamaguje says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 5:22 pm

      Before Obama, the State dept considered Iran the number one state sponsor of terrorism.
      Now Iran is exempt from U.S. anti-terror measures.

    • Peter Charles says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 6:41 pm

      Very true. If the President and the gigilo Kerry think they have one, they are delusional.

  2. Juliette64 says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    I am convinced our federal government is infiltrated by enemies of western civilization. Curtailing the defense of the USA citizenry over some stupendously foolish Iranian/USA “deal” is another step towards national suicide.

    Yes, global warming is the problem we are told. No doubt unicorn sightings are common in our federal offices. This lib-insanity is going to get out of hand so wickedly fast & far, we lowly taxpayers who see the threat(s) will be overwhelmed when the threat(s) coalesce in an American “Tet Offensive”. It will be among us all. Will America really wake up then?

    Stunningly, our elected Congress is unwilling to act to save our nation as we know and love it. Yet, openly agree to “fundamentally change” the USA into a broke, 3rd world, crap hole with the Trojan horse of illegals and refugees of Muslim regions. Added insult is that all of us are getting hit with the the taxes that pay for our own demise.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 11:10 pm

      A little like the Nazis demanding that those who were to be “executed” (read: murdered) be forced to dig their own graves.

    • Shane says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 10:06 am

      Yes, the Left in North America and Europe has allied with Islamists because they have common enemies – Christianity and Western Civilization. Also, some Republicans aid the jihad because they want cheap labor for the big business donors who don’t give a damn about anything but making bigger profits. We need to end all immigration from Muslim countries including student visas and deport Muslim troublemakers who are already here.

    • Sam says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 11:44 am

      Will America really wake up then?

      No, because a brainwashed nation learned to hate itself needs few generations to (maybe) wake up.

    • Asian Crusader says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 1:11 pm

      I am convinced our federal government is infiltrated by enemies of western civilization.

      There is undoubtedly some “infiltration” in the sense that undisclosed foreign agents gain access to positions of trust within the government, military, media, academia and religious institutions. (In other words, throughout our system.)

      The much bigger problem is the slow-motion, ruthless take-over in broad daylight of all our institutions led by a ruthless, sophisticated and well-organized cadre of individuals each of whom is hell-bent on undermining the liberal, constitutional order. This take-over has been proceedingslowly for decades, right before our unseeing eyes. The take-over is now becoming extremely blatant, careless and rushed.

      Meanwhile, note that Barry Obama has long abandoned even the slightest pretense that he is a “Christian” in even the most formal sense despite the concerted campaign through much of 2008 where his handlers had bevies of atheist lackeys (NYT, CNN, John McCain etc.) screeching that “Barack Obama is a Christian.”

    • Gea says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 1:46 pm

      According to Egyptian media, they have a proof that Barack Husseion Obama is a member of Muslm Brotherhood, which is a terrorist organization that had spawned most other Muslim terrorist organizations. Why is this traitor in power still? Why is US congress so cowardly to do their job of checks and balances.

      We need to sue Barack Hussein Obama for destroying America by his cavorting with Jihadis of Iran and elsewhere in the world. TRAITOR must be removed together with Hillary Clinton…there is enough evidence to convict them

  3. Hope says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    And people can’t figure out why Donald Trump is so popular with American voters? Obama, Kerry, and the rest of them seem to enjoy groveling and humiliating themselves in front of our enemies. Pathetic, weak and stupid. Village idiots.

    • Robert Lippincott says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 5:58 am

      I have read that Iran never signed the agreement anyway, is that True?

  4. Angemon says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    Secretary of State John Kerry is working to reassure Iranian leaders that recent congressional efforts to tighten counter-terrorism measures will not harm Iranian interests, according to a letter sent by Kerry to Iran’s foreign minister.

    Isn’t the American Secretary of State supposed to defend American interests rather than sacrifice them to appease an hostile foreign nation whose motto is “Death to America”?

  5. Wellington says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    Reasonable minds can disagree respecting why Obama does what he does, as here with the wretched Iranian nuclear deal. There’s room for varied informed opinions in this “category.”

    But that Obama is terrible for the United States and for the West at large, terrible for the preservation of freedom (oh yes, consider this gem of UN fame: “The future should not belong to those who slander blah, blah, blah”) and terrible for the preservation of the best which mankind has wrought with a toughness to preserve that which is best, I see no room for maneuver here at all. It’s really quite simple in this “category.” Yes, very straightforward, i.e., Obama is abysmal where consequences are concerned, irrespective of motivation.

    And thanks again to all you truly uninfomred people out there who voted for Obama for President, and especially for those of you who decided to learn nothing after four years and who voted for him a second time for this office. A la Henry V, the sin upon your heads——every damn last one of you unless you have made a complete act of contrition by now with penance of some sort accompanying such contrition.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 7:52 pm

      Obama’s call for anti-blasphemy law in the US was unconscionable for a US president and INCREDIBLE coming from a Harvard lawyer!

      The most atrocious part was no law professor denounced him!

    • mortimer says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 7:58 pm

      Wellington wrote: “thanks again to all you truly uninfomred people out there who voted for Obama”

      We will all suffer for their folly… they have been brainwashed never to use critical thought. They have been brainwashed to believe Muslims’ hurt feelings are a basis for law and that hurt feelings are more important than freedom of expression.

    • Joseph says

      Dec 21, 2015 at 9:32 pm

      Wellington, Obama,blah, blah, blah says it all for all he says is blah, blah, blah. I’d rather listen to fingernails on a chalkboard.

    • Oppressaphobe says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 9:12 am

      Did I hear that there have been actual votes to repeal the first amendment recently?

      Chip, chip chippin away…

      There has been real and lasting damage such that we cannot recover unless we get some strong leadership in place and people wake up.

      Canada is obviously going down the wrong way and that will impact us very seriously. How many new mosques did I hear are going up? Didn’t Lakeisha Holloway attend a Vancouver mosque? Too bad many Canadians were victims in Las Vegas but hey, they opened the floodgates in the first place so I hope they don’t blame America.

      Lakeisha Holloway was reported to have recently changed her name! Hmmm… strange for a homeless person to do such a thing. I think that would cost quiet a bit of money. Paris Paradise Morton? Is that what we’ve seen? With a previous pic of her in LV in front of the Eiffel Tower?

      Is it still legal to ask questions about people who cdmmit heinous acts in America (even though she was from Somalia, before she was from America).

      BECAUSE WE’RE NOT GETTING ANY ANSWERS VERY QUICKLY!

      The vacationer in chief is not so far away that he can stop the flow of information and work behind the scenes to control the outcome, just like San Bernardino.

      Merry Christmas America!!!

  6. Sam says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 7:45 pm

    What is really wrong with Obama. In fact what is wrong with America that we have to tolerate this idiot of a president? Surreal!

    • Oppressaphobe says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 9:16 am

      Nothing is wrong with him–he wants America to be a muslim nation and he is having his way with all the morons we’ve raised that have no values.

      ITS THE CULTURE OF SELF VS. THE CULTURE OF DEATH

  7. mortimer says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    Obama and his cohort of Pollyannas are determined not to see the jihad or learn about jihad…so they maintain the fiction that Islam doesn’t have a doctrine of subjugation of disbelievers.

    By making Muslims their friends in the civilizational war against freedom, Obama and co. are making Jews, Christians and all other freedom-loving people their targets, just as Muslims do in all Muslim countries in the cause of Allah (jihad sabilillah).

  8. Maria says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    I think the body language says it all, uh, the finger

  9. Sh. N. says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 3:48 am

    I believe those in power know better than us that Islamic Iran is the mother of all evils.
    They must have known the menaces of Islamic Iran at the first place to try to hinder their efforts to terrorize the world with nuclear weapons.
    But to go through this they step by step are being compromised by Mullahs who are trained to fool people for centuries and are showcasing the most horrible set of beliefs as the religion of peace since its incetion.

  10. DERMOTRE says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 7:43 am

    “May [My Dear Past Great Americans] yet intercede for this nation which has now become a model of sinfulness and atheistic ways for the entire world!”
    http://jkmi.wsiefusion.net/jesus-king-of-all-nations-message-june-6-2011

  11. Nic says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 8:09 am

    Meh…. storm in a teacup.

    The new visa waiver restrictions don’t conflict with the Iranian agreement. Nor does Kerry suggest that the proposed new law would be vetoed by Obama. They don’t NEED to be vetoed; it just means that Iranians – in common with visitors from most other countries in the world – will need to get visa’s to enter the USA.

    Presumably your Immigration control will fast-track any visa applications from Iranian politicians or state-sanctioned businessmen.

    Thats not to say the the Moaning Mulla’s (in both Iran and the USA) won’t bitch and whinge, but then they do that 5 times before breakfast ANYWAY. So no change there…. 😛

  12. Oppressaphobe says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 9:19 am

    That middle finger is not accident. We know that about this man after 7 years!!!

    God forgive his grandmother for not spanking his a**!!!!

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