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Iran testing boundaries of nuclear deal while Obama does nothing

Sep 6, 2016 11:20 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, is being allowed to increase its nuclear capability and global powers with reprieve.

Dr. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control Program at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, has revealed new ways that Iran is pushing the envelope on the nuclear deal while Obama does nothing. Some troubling examples cited below:

Iran was allowed to exceed its limit on enriched uranium under some bogus explanation that it was “converted to other chemical forms,” and inspections of the Parchin nuclear site were ended “as part of a side deal between Iran and the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, with no American involvement.”

Meanwhile, just last month, Obama falsely declared that “over the last year, the Iran deal has succeeded in rolling back Iran’s nuclear program, avoiding further conflict and making us safer.”

Since the deal a year ago, Iran has become a bigger regional menace, adding to destabilization; has been conducting ballistic missile testing in violation of international law; apprehended US sailors illegally; and supports/expands jihad terrorism worldwide.

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“‘US is ignoring Iran pushing the envelope on nuclear deal’”, by Yaakov Lappin, Jerusalem Post, September 5, 2016:

Iran is systematically testing the boundaries of the nuclear deal it struck with the West, and the Obama administration has repeatedly swept this under the carpet, acting as “Iran’s lawyers” instead, a senior Israeli security expert has warned.

Dr. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control Program at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that a string of incidents over the past six months has proven that “there is a continued struggle between Iran and the US. It is real, and is here. Iran is continuing to push the envelope, trying to get as much as it can, even within the confines of this deal,” she said, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was reached last year.

The upcoming elections in the US represent an opportunity for Israel to establish a new dialogue with the next administration to formulate a response to Iran, Landau argued…..

The report cites information that Iran received a number of exemptions from Washington ahead of the implementation of the JCPOA in January this year. Exemptions include not counting enriched uranium that had been converted into other chemical forms, which may have allowed Iran to surpass its 300 kilogram cap of low enriched uranium.

A recent press conference by State Department spokesman John Kirby saw him introduce the term “usable” uranium as a means of justifying this, Landau said. Kirby also made reference to a secret joint commission with Iran, which he used as a “shield of confidentiality to ward off questions.”

Other incidents Landau referred to include the revelation that inspections of the Parchin nuclear site were concluded as part of a side deal between Iran and the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, with no American involvement.

“It was not even clear if Congress knew those details,” Landau said.

Landau also cited a July Associated Press report, which was reportedly based on a secret document showing that in 11 years, restrictions on Iranian uranium enrichment would begin to be lifted, rather than the previously believed 15 years.

“All these cases are creating a growing lack of confidence in the [Obama] administration regarding the things it is saying on the Iran deal,” Landau said.

Recent developments will help create a new reality a decade from now, in which Iran will be “much stronger vis-avis world powers. Then, no one will be willing and able to stand up to Iran during the crunch time,” Landau warned. Israel must remain highly attentive to these developments, and not base its evaluation of the Iranian nuclear threat solely on whether Tehran is abiding by the JCPOA or not.

The radical ayatollahs are set to keep their hold on power in Iran even after Supreme Leader Khamenei leaves power, due to the new makeup of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, which picks supreme leaders, Landau argued. “They, together with the Revolutionary Guards, have the real hold on power. There is no basis, right now, for dreams of moderation. Yet the US is acting as if we are on the road to a changed Iran.”

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  1. Angemon says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 11:27 am

    I wouldn’t say Obama is doing nothing – he seems to enjoy lying about it to sell it to the American people.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 6, 2016 at 11:33 am

      Yes, It is bad enough that he lies, but an even a worse character flaw is that he enjoys lying.

      • Gary says

        Sep 6, 2016 at 11:41 am

        Lying? No No. It’s that funny Islamic word isn’t it?

        Taqiyya

  2. Moses says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 11:44 am

    He’s going to realise what a big mistake he’s made when we start seeing the MUSHROOMS in the sky!!!

    • stubb says

      Sep 7, 2016 at 7:41 am

      Sadly, he will never realize any of his mistakes. As a textbook sociopath with narcissistic and borderline personality disorders, he lacks the capacity to understand or take responsibility for his failures.

  3. Rob says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 11:51 am

    “…Iran is systematically testing the boundaries of the nuclear deal it struck with the West…”

    …but it WASN’T a deal, remember? Obama said so – and no-one signed it

    • stubb says

      Sep 7, 2016 at 7:32 am

      The Iran deal is a deal when he wants it to be a deal, and not a deal when he doesn’t want it to be a deal. The Obamacare tax is a tax when he wants it to be a tax, and not a tax when he doesn’t want it to be a tax. And so on and so forth for eight miserable years. “And now you begin to understand.”

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 6, 2016 at 1:26 pm

    Even the very idea of have any kind of dialogue at all, on any subject with the disingenuous and outright lying representatives of the heinously cruel and oppressive tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran which is so very brutal and even murderous to the Iranian people is a affront to both what is right and also common sense. To give one example out of many hideous and deadly regime is that this heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women. For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1] That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime . Which so very falsely has the words “Republic” in its title. In this Islamic dictatorship both females and males live in terrible fear because of those wicked mullahs and ayatollahs who have such terrible power in influence , even in Iran’s parliament, Therefore , such callous and heartless tyrants as those Muslim clerics in high positions in Iran who install fear in the people are a strong reminder that Benjamin Franklin did have a very good and valid point when he printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK the wisdom that “Those who are feared are also hated.”

    [1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240

  5. Jay Boo says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 1:43 am

    Muslim theocracy hangs suspect for drug crimes.
    Obama and MSM do and say nothing.

    Muslim terrorists attack in Philippines.
    Obama furious. (Not at Muslims)
    Obama scolds Philippines’ leader for being too harsh on drug criminals.

    I see a trend with Obama’s timing.

  6. Denise A says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 5:47 am

    That’s what Obama does…He will set a devious plan in action, then sit back and admire his evil handiwork as it unfolds.

  7. steve says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 5:54 am

    The O in Obama stands for ZERO,NADA……….what do you expect…He was voted in by persuading ‘persons of colour’ that he was one of them so it was their duty. Democracy is dead now. In England all Muslims vote Labour , How else would there now be a Muslim mayor of London.

  8. stubb says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 7:24 am

    Boundaries? The only boundaries are the extent to which Obama and his Mullah confederates will continue to do exactly as they please until stopped by the threat or imposition of a punishment corresponding to the enormity of their crimes.

  9. Peter says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Boundaries? What boundaries? The Obama administration is weak, lacks vision, courage and an understanding of geopolitics, and is only good at weakening American and Western interests and power. That is why the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, Iranians, Turks, and other are maximizing taking advantage of our weakness and lack of resolve to advance their interests and gains, humiliating Obama and the U.S. when convenient.

    If Obama finds his backbone (assuming he has one), there would be the added danger that he would continue not to be taken seriously, risking a serious confrontation.

    The president and his foreign policy crew don’t even merit the label of amateurs; they are novices incapable of leaning from their mistakes or dispelling their obviously false assumptions and ignorant and delusional worldview.

  10. Carl says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    Why is everyone talking about “Iran”? That is not the name of the country! The official name of that country is “The Islamic Republic of Iran”, and that makes all the difference. Their Constitution plainly says that “Islamic criteria” and “Koranic justice” and “for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in God’s way” are the organizing principles and goals of that country. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a nation state like other countries, and we need to drive this point home in every article. Only when we understand that the Islamic Republic of Iran is driven by ISLAMIC interests, will we understand their behavior and intentions. Here is a very important excerpt from the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

    PREAMBLE
    An Ideological Army

    In the formation and equipping of the country’s defense forces, due attention must be paid to faith and ideology as the basic criteria. Accordingly, the army of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are to be organized in conformity with this goal, and they will be responsible not only for guarding and preserving the frontiers of the country but also for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in God’s way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world (this is in accordance with the Koranic verse “Prepare against them whatever force you are able to muster, and strings of horses, striking fear into the enemy of God and your enemy, and others besides them.” [8.60])

  11. Jerry says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 12:00 am

    Maybe when Iran explodes the first N bomb Hussein Barak Obama will be awarded an extra Nobel prize.

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