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IAEA certifies Iran’s compliance with nuke deal, US, EU lift sanctions

Jan 16, 2016 5:21 pm By Robert Spencer

Peace in our time! Just ignore all those people screaming, “Death to America!”

IAEA Rouhani

“US, EU lift sanctions against Iran amid landmark nuke deal,” by George Jahn and Bradley Klapper, Associated Press, January 16, 2016:

VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency certified Saturday that Iran has met all of its commitments under last summer’s landmark nuclear deal, crowning years of U.S.-led efforts to crimp Iran’s ability to make atomic weapons. For Iran, the move lifts Western economic sanctions that have been in place for years, unlocking access to $100 billion in frozen assets and unleashing new opportunities for its battered economy.

“The multinational economic and financial sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program are lifted,” Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, said in a joint statement also read in Farsi by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif.

President Barack Obama signed executive orders lifting economic sanctions on Iran and Mogherini said the EU had lifted its nuclear-related sanctions as well.

“This historic deal is both strong and fair, and it meets the requirements of all,” Mogherini declared, saying it serves to “improve regional and international peace, security and stability.”

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who led the last years of negotiations with Zarif that culminated in the July 14 deal, confirmed that the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy could verify that “Iran has fully implemented its required commitments.”

“Relations between Iran and the IAEA now enter a new phase,” said IAEA director general Yukiya Amano. “It is an important day for the international community.”

Progress also came Saturday on another area of Iran-U.S. tensions: U.S. and Iranian officials announced that Iran was releasing four detained Iranian-Americans in exchange for seven Iranians held or charged in the United States.

U.S. officials said the four — Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, pastor Saeed Abedini and Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari — were to be flown from Iran to Switzerland on a Swiss plane and then brought to a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, for medical treatment.

In return, the U.S. will either pardon or drop charges against seven Iranians — six of them dual citizens — accused or convicted of violating U.S. sanctions. The U.S. will also drop Interpol “red notices” — essentially arrest warrants — on a handful of Iranian fugitives it has sought….

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Filed Under: European Union, Featured, Iran, United Nations, United States, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Federica Mogherini, International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano


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  1. Solomon says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 5:49 pm

    Just ignore all those people screaming, “Death to America!”

    Including the leaders of their country. …a country that’s the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, soon to have a nuclear arsenal.

  2. Infidel from Down Under says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    The American people for their own good and that of their allies must now play the ‘Trump card’ or risk Islam overruning the world

    • Mo says

      Jan 16, 2016 at 6:02 pm

      @ Infidel from Down Under

      “The American people for their own good and that of their allies must now play the ‘Trump card’ or risk Islam overruning the world”

      Oh, enough with this Trump mania! Go watch him denouncing the Garland event and mocking Pamela Geller! Why would he do anything about Islam?

      • Infidel from Down Under says

        Jan 16, 2016 at 6:26 pm

        @ Mo,

        But if things stay as they are now, it will be a Clinton v Trump race. The muslim world will throw a week long party if Clinton gets in .

        • JMB says

          Jan 17, 2016 at 12:48 am

          Exactly. I would almost suggest that this whole very sudden treaty compliance is a knee-jerk reaction in response to a possible Trump presidency.

          Go back a few years to the Iran Hostage Crisis, strange how they were released as soon as it became clear that Carter would be out and Ronald Regan would be president. In fact a popular joke at the time was; What is big, black and mildly radioactive? A. Iran one day after Regan becomes president of the USA.

          Also, as others have commented, it is a bit like “Peace in Our Time” way back in 1938.

    • Tom says

      Jan 16, 2016 at 6:11 pm

      I absolutely agree. We must get Trump into office or face ruination and subjugation under Islam! The Democrats are giving the Key to the USA and we are going to be left holding the bag.

    • Arthur says

      Jan 16, 2016 at 9:37 pm

      Ben Carson not Trump.

      • mortimer says

        Jan 16, 2016 at 10:39 pm

        Trump is philosophically a dunce who believes ‘greed is good’. He has no moral compass. He is a complete opportunist.

        • billybob says

          Jan 16, 2016 at 10:57 pm

          You are too kind. He is an idiot.

      • billybob says

        Jan 16, 2016 at 10:56 pm

        Bernie Sanders not Clinton.

  3. Wellington says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    Munich redux.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 16, 2016 at 7:09 pm

      Grimly apt, Wellington.

  4. nacazo says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    Wait, doesn’t congress need to approve any treaty?

    • Wellington says

      Jan 16, 2016 at 6:33 pm

      Good question, nacazo. It seems that Obama has run rings around the feckless Republicans again who control both houses of Congress by way of asserting that the deal with Iran is not a treaty but rather an executive action. Shades of grey area here to be sure but I have no doubt were it the other way around, a Democratically controlled Congress would have done much more to stop a Republican President from doing what Obama is doing had it been on a matter not to the liking of the Democrats.

      In short, the Democrats have terrible ideas but they still have balls. The Republicans have better ideas but they lost their collective testicles long ago. Not a good combo for the future of America.

      • Spot On says

        Jan 18, 2016 at 7:54 am

        Is it lack of balls, or are Republicans very bad at the game of “Chicken”. Probably both. Plus, the major donors who donate heavily to the politicians are common to both parties. Trump solves all three of these problems, for the Presidency at least.

  5. Thomas says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 6:38 pm

    Those who do not understand the duplicity of Islam will think this “deal” is a good thing.

    But remember in our dealings with Iran, there have always been two Iranian leaders responding with opposing, and to us confusing stances. I never understood how this could be, and which one to believe. Welcome to Islamic diplomacy.

    Islam hates the Jews. Not just those in Israel, but anywhere they are encountered.
    Why is this? It’s in their book!

    Muslims hate and want to convert or kill all Europeans, and Americans as well.
    Why is this? It’s in their book!

    This war with Islam against everyone else has been going on for hundreds of years, and Islam is winning.

    It all becomes crystal clear once you study the text that this all originates from.

    This is not another conspiracy theory, their plan is very to subdue and dominate all our planet’s people.

    Please educate your self as soon as possible, if it is already not too late…

  6. gravenimage says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    IAEA certifies Iran’s compliance with nuke deal, US, EU lift sanctions
    ……………………..

    Just look at the sh*t-eating grin…

  7. Neil Jennison says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 7:22 pm

    What a fucking muppet Obama is!

  8. somehistory says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    For some of us, there was no doubt that this would happen. The wild beast from satan the devil is being allowed to force its will on mankind. iran is a large part of this beast of islam and for now, grinning to show the teeth that wishes to devour all who will not bow in worship to satan.

    We must remember that Christ has promised that it is all temporary.

  9. peter11937 says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    If the forced compliance if islam were stopped, this preposterous religion would be dead n a generation. The entire quran is borrowed and twisted Jewish and Christian tradition with bits of Mohammad’s whole cloth bs. Destruction of the infrastructure that supports them is the only answer. It will require that the west starts fighting the half of the war that the politician have been dancing around since the end of WW2 , each trying to show that thy are more open minded than the next, while islam goes on killing and forcing conversions. BT, where is that National Organization of Women, getting fitted for burkas?

  10. Plutarchus says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 8:22 pm

    DOES IRAN HAVE OFFSHORE NUCLEAR FACILITIES

    that the IAEA doesn’t have access to where the mullahs can enrich uranium and develop nukes with impunity? The answer is absolutely yes.

    Click http://www.apollospeaks.com/?p… and see for yourself what Obama doesn’t want you to know.

    • Plutarchus says

      Jan 16, 2016 at 11:50 pm

      CORRECTION: Click http://www.apollospeaks.com/?p=12231

  11. Jack Holan says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    The IAEA certification of Iran’s nucular compliance flys in the Face of all Credulity. The IAEA resolutely maintained for 2-years that Iran was not releasing data nor giving access to the investigative team and as a result no Report can be written attesting to the status her prior Program or current Program. The last statements echoing this stays was 12/2015. Yet suddenly the IAEA on January 14/15 can certify full compliance by the Persians; this is a LIE Mr Amano and a stain on your family’s honor.

  12. Angemon says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    Meanwhile, at the NIAC headquarters…

    • Mo says

      Jan 16, 2016 at 10:29 pm

      @ Angemon

      MY EYES! MY EYES!

      Trigger warnings, please!

  13. sidney penny says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    “Peace in our time! Just ignore all those people screaming, “Death to America!”

    Robert,you are going a bit slow.What happened to the other part of the famous catch-cry.

    Peace in our time! Just ignore all those people screaming, “Death to America!” “Death to the Jews”

    or did I miss the “Death to the Jews” after Obama’s signature.

  14. Jay Boo says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 11:03 pm

    Nice couple
    One wears a formal suit and the other a dress.
    It is just like the decoration on a wedding cake.

  15. خَليفة says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    Did I hear Obama, his ilk and his toadies at the UN saying something like “wool, what wool? I don’t have wool over my eyes. Oh that! That’s cotton.”

  16. worldcitizen1919 says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 2:38 am

    It all comes down to the sincerity.

    There were ways of testing Iran’s sincerity that they didn’t employ.

    That’s where America went wrong and we’ll see if Iran was bluffing all along.

    They should have linked the releasing of sanctions not just on a handshake but some ‘tangible’ evidence like the well known abuse of human rights in Iran.

    Reportedly Iran has said that all its citizens are treated equally but every year they are condemned reports of human rights violations.

    Iran has promised to improve things but never have. So if they break their human rights promises then why do the deal brokers thing they’ll abide by this agreement??

    They won’t and wing need to if they get nukes. And I bet Saudi Arabia is not believing Iran’s lies either because they know them well.

    We’re still getting news of desecrated Baha’i graves among other things and this agreement could have been made conditional on human rights but the world diesnt care. All they want is $$$

    So Iran’s laughing all the way to the bank with no pressure applied and once they get some money they’ll continue to covertly amass weapons.

  17. Mark says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 7:56 am

    Please view share and give a thumbs up to the following documentary, https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y. It reveals how treacherous Islam is.
    If western governments collapse, the only people with any hope of a comfortable retirement are the ones with enough children to take care of them. Children use to contribute to the family income. Now they are an expensive time consuming hobby and are getting replaced with gadgets and toys.

  18. Sam says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 8:13 am

    It is very clear every day to me things will not turn better in fight against Islam until the western civilization hits the bottom like a drug addict. I am not counting on a republican president being elected in November either which may slow the decline of American prosperity but not the culture.

    I hope history will tell the next generations how stupid Obama and John Kerry were in dealing with Iran and Islam. I hope.

  19. Rich Cole says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 12:27 pm

    What we have here is “failure to communicate!” (Struther Martin as he beat Paul Newman, in “Cool Hand Luke”) We’ve been played, but then we all knew that.

  20. Jeremiah says

    Jan 18, 2016 at 3:00 am

    We know that deception works. Goebbels said that truth is the enemy of the state. Hitler almost won but ultimately it was the bullet that stopped him. People were willing to trade with him until the end.

    We need to stop trying to reason with Islam and get serious. After all they have been raping and deceiving us for 1400 years. Enough is enough!

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