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Obama administration agreed in secret to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in nuclear agreement so it could get sanctions relief

Sep 1, 2016 4:13 pm By Robert Spencer

The Obama administration seems to have been bent on financing the Islamic Republic of Iran by hook or by crook.

Zarif with agreement

“U.S., others agreed ‘secret’ exemptions for Iran after nuclear deal: think tank,” by Jonathan Landay, Reuters, September 1, 2016:

The United States and its negotiating partners agreed “in secret” to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year’s landmark nuclear agreement in order to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief from economic sanctions, according to a think tank report published on Thursday.

The report, which was released by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, is based on information provided by several officials of governments involved in the negotiations. The group’s president David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector and co-author of the report, declined to identify the officials, and Reuters could not independently verify the report’s assertions.

“The exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran,” Albright said.

Among the exemptions were two that allowed Iran to exceed the deal’s limits on how much low-enriched uranium (LEU) it can keep in its nuclear facilities, the report said. LEU can be purified into highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium.

The exemptions, the report said, were approved by the joint commission the deal created to oversee implementation of the accord. The commission is comprised of the United States and its negotiating partners — called the P5+1 — and Iran.

One senior “knowledgeable” official was cited by the report as saying that if the joint commission had not acted to create these exemptions, some of Iran’s nuclear facilities would not have been in compliance with the deal by Jan. 16, the deadline for the beginning of the lifting of sanctions.

The U.S. administration has said that the world powers that negotiated the accord — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — made no secret arrangements.

A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the joint commission and its role were “not secret.” He did not address the report’s assertions of exemptions.

Diplomats at the United Nations for the other P5+1 countries did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment on the report. Iranian officials were not immediately available for comment.

The report’s assertions are likely to anger critics of the nuclear deal. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has vowed to renegotiate the agreement if he’s elected, while Democrat Hillary Clinton supports the accord….

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  1. mortimer says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    Iran’s mullahs take post-doctrinal degrees in TAQIYYA. John Kerry is a babe in the woods.

  2. duh swami says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    T reason X-10…It’s a good thing President Trump has a big eraser…

    • miriamrove says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 5:21 pm

      While you are right about Trump having a big eraser, I am not sure if he would be able to do much since multiple nations are signatory to this disastrous agreement. Then again he may be able to. m

      • duh swami says

        Sep 1, 2016 at 5:30 pm

        He already said he would dump the deal…I doubt he cares what those other nations think…

  3. Janice says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 5:08 pm

    It boggles the mind how Israel lets him get away with this stab in the back to them? And how Israel
    is letting George Soros stay a live, after hacked emails contain information about funding to undermine Israel? Agents of Israel should be doing everything in their power to discredit Hillary Clinton it is easy to do
    after all, and doing everything in their power to get Donald Trump Elected!

    • billybob says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 9:38 pm

      Well he convinced me, and I’m not even a jew.

      • Janice says

        Sep 2, 2016 at 1:18 am

        I’m not Jewish either, I just think it’s the right thing to do!

    • DefenderofIslm says

      Sep 2, 2016 at 10:57 am

      These type of operation can back fire on Israel. Trump chance of winning is nil he have no voter based in the black ,Hispanics, Asian and moslim comm Hillary only need to get 30% of the white vote, Hillary have most of the white women vote. Israel doesn’t want to upset Hillary or the American people.

  4. Angemon says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    U.S., others agreed ‘secret’ exemptions for Iran after nuclear deal

    Obama sure wanted to get the deal signed before the end of his term…

    • Roy C says

      Sep 2, 2016 at 7:14 pm

      The SIS report greatly understates just how terrible the nuclear deal is – but at least some of the main stream media other than Fox are running this story – not that the public pays much attention. Even some on the left who worship the Messiah are starting to grumble about this catastrophic agreement. Israel has been warned in no uncertain terms not to strike Iran. For me, the only question remaining is not whether Iran will develop the bomb but what will they do with it.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    This sordid revelation is perfectly understandable. The Persians, Moslems all, work in the cause of world mass murder violence because they’ve been victimized for centuries. For his part, Prez Barack Hussein, a globo-socialist, knows that the Persians are in the mass murder biz because of the sins of the West against them. So if we give them breaks, they’ll calm down and everything will be ok, even after they tip their new ICBMs with nuclear warheads. Nothing to see here, please move along…

  6. Undaunted says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    Speaking of Muslims behaving badly, today is the 12th anniversary of the takeover of Beslan School #1 in North Ossetia, Russian Federation. Three days later 333 Russians, including many children, were dead or dying. If you wonder why that’s important to you, check the link below:

    http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2016/09/true-warriors-theyre-still-out-there.html

  7. Fatts says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    I have no doubt that Barack Obama wants enabling Iran to kill millions of Jews to be the centerpiece of his legacy.

  8. billybob says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 9:23 pm

    “Donald Trump has vowed to renegotiate the agreement if he’s elected.”

    Like closing the barn door after the horse has already fled. What do you think are the chances Iran would give all that money back? Zero to none. You think Iran would ever agree to negotiate one tiny detail except in its favour? Never! Impossible to renegotiate. We are stuck with it now. The only negotiating possible at this point would not involve Iran at all, and would involve a nuclear strike on their weapons development silos.

    • Praeceptor Maximus says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 10:13 pm

      For Jihad Watch

      Either Obama is a fool or he is determined to bring about the destruction of America. And I don’t think that he is a fool. He is a Muslim. No non-Muslim would say that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. And no one can convince me that he loves America. What he wants to do is to knock America down from its perch as a superpower. And as well as being a Muslim, maybe he still bears a grudge against America’s past over its treatment of the blacks. And with that being said, why doesn’t Israel do anything about it! I could be wrong, but here are my thoughts on the matter. I believe that Israel knows that a total war with Iran is inevitable. Iran right now is not strong enough militarily to go to war with Israel. However, once it has nuclear capability then Israel can go to war with an equal, which would trigger WWIII. And the only man who can stop this from happening is Trump. The deal with Iran must be torn and I don’t think Trump will renegotiate it. And I wouldn’t worry too much about other signatories to the deal. Once Trump becomes president, Europe will move to the right, leaving Iran high and dry. And with tougher sanctions imposed on Iran, it would not be able to build its missiles no matter how much money they have gotten. And hopefully this will make Iranians rise against their government. If Iran becomes a secular nation, then there is hope for peace in the Middle East. After all, it was Ayatollah Khomeini who exported this evil ideology everywhere else. The world was going good till Khomeini came onto the scene.

      Either Obama is a fool or he is determined to bring about the destruction of America. And I don’t think that he is a fool. He is a Muslim. No non-Muslim would say that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. And no one can convince me that he loves America. What he wants to do is to knock America down from its perch as a superpower. And as well as being a Muslim, maybe he still bears a grudge against America’s past over its treatment of blacks. And with that being said, why doesn’t Israel do anything about it! I could be wrong, but here are my thoughts on the matter. I believe that Israel knows that a total war with Iran is inevitable. Iran right now is not strong enough militarily to go to war with Israel. However, once it has nuclear capability then Israel can go to war with an equal, which would trigger WWIII. And the only man who can stop this from happening is Trump. The deal with Iran must be torn and I don’t think Trump will renegotiate it. And I wouldn’t worry too much about other signatories to the deal. Once Trump becomes president, Europe will move to the right, leaving Iran high and dry. And with tougher sanctions imposed on Iran, it would not be able to build its missiles no matter how much money they have gotten. And hopefully this will make Iranians rise against their government. If Iran becomes a secular nation, then there is hope for peace in the Middle East. After all, it was Ayatollah Khomeini who exported this evil ideology everywhere else. The world was going good till Khomeini came onto the scene.

  9. Praeceptor Maximus says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    I have no idea why my post got printed twice.

  10. don vito says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 12:09 am

    Well B-ho is muuuuccccch more worried about the real problem, person made global gigantic world wide climate change. He is at present devoting most of his active thinking processes to this urgent slow acting nakba. His thinking, as I understand it, once global climate change has been fixed, Chicago will be a safer city to live in. We all can only hope that B-ho is not only correct, but that he succeeds in his quest.

  11. davej says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 12:38 am

    Obama’s legacy will be a far more dangerous world, with Iran emboldened and armed with home grown nuclear weapons, plus legions of hostile Islamic “refugees” in place within the “homeland”.

    Then this will be turned over to Hillary, who, as Europe descends, will preside over the jihadic destruction of both Israel and America. The lights of freedom are blinking out one by one.

  12. WESTPAC Spy says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 12:52 am

    I do not relish the idea of a Trump presidency. But the silver lining as far as I’m concerned, one of the few silver linings in this whole abominable election season, is Barack Obama and his staff are arrogant to the bone. Pride goeth before a fall. And I’m sure they think they have all the pardon paperwork in order. But they’re committing so many felonies so quickly they can’t possibly keep track. Especially when they don’t even know they’re committing felonies.

    If Trump wins, I want to be the fly on the wall when Obama is indicted for failing to register as an agent of a foreign power. Which Tehran’s man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue clearly is.

    Then, if I were Trump, (I’m stepping into the role now) after getting the conviction I’d magnanimously commute Obama’s sentence. For the racial healing. To bring the country together. And also so I could extradite him to Mexico for the Fast & Furious trial over the gun running which resulted in the murder of hundreds of Mexicans. Just to show I don’t hate Mexicans, like the Democrats keep insisting I do. Also because, gotta love those third world prisons when you really want to put the hurt on someone.

  13. Lawrence says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 2:03 am

    Even the biggest critics of Obama’s sell-out to Iran rarely point out what this all means, because few actually get it. Obama is far worse than a Chamberlain and it is unfair on Chamberlain to compare Obama to him. Obama is a collaborator with Iran to destroy Israel via a nuclear holocaust. This makes him as bad as Hitler, and those who voted for Obama are thus complicit (as are those who voted for Hitler), and effectively either as bad as the Nazis or just brain-dead zombies. This makes most American Jews effectively as anti-Semitic as the Nazis or brain-dead zombies at best. And I’m an Israeli Jew btw.

    It is difficult to articulate what needs to be articulated here in a comment, it needs book length treatment and it entails complex psychology and sociology. Genocidal anti-Semitism is the de facto position of the Western Left (and many conservatives), embodied by the White House, but also ably supported by the EU and Britain. The whole of the Western Left is out-and-out Nazi. This genocidal anti-Semitism is neither conscious nor honest about what it is, unlike the refreshingly honest Nazis and Muslim fanatics. It is a hardcore Jew-hatred that is repressed and then bounces back under the guise of human rights, freedom and peace. It has to, to be made palatable and acceptable to liberals and Jewish liberals at that. Make no mistake, the dynamics of genocidal Jew-hatred have changed considerably, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, but it is what it is. The Left (in America, Canada, Europe, Britain, etc.) and the Obama White House the American Left voted for are every bit as anti-Semitic as the Nazis. There is an absurdity and horror to this that nobody has yet given voice to, or articulated properly.

  14. duh swami says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 7:13 am

    And Allah said to Rasulullah Obama…’Ask not what Islam can do for you, ask instead what you can do for Islam’…So he does it…

    • Lawrence says

      Sep 2, 2016 at 7:36 am

      You’ve nailed it!

  15. George Bacon says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 8:00 am

    Once you accept the fact that Obama is not on the side of America, it all begins to make perfect sense.

  16. DockyWocky says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 8:00 am

    Obama must be charged with treasonous conduct, deceit, and general stupidity.

  17. YBD says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    Why doesn’t SCOTUS, filled with Jews, do anything about our muSLIME POS prez?
    Nothing makes any sense, unless they are all in on it.

  18. Carolyne says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    I wonder what else Obama and John (The Chin) Kerry have secretly agreed to to assist Iran in their quest for nuclear weapons I wonder who’s side they are actually working for Nah. I don’t really wonder. I know.

  19. Michael Laudahn says

    Sep 3, 2016 at 9:30 am

    That sounds interesting: Go to Google News and type this search term: iran nicaragua canal.

  20. Trico (@tricolorro) says

    Sep 4, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    NEW: An Islamic State-Style Propaganda Video, Released Under The Supervision Of The Iranian Regime Last Month, Portrays A Group Of Iranian Men Destroying An American Navy Fleet.
    http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/obamas-peace-partner-iran-destroys-united-states-navy-fleet-isis-style-propaganda-film/

    • Trico (@tricolorro) says

      Sep 4, 2016 at 3:15 pm

      The original link has more info but here’s a direct link to the short 2:39 minute film on YouTube:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5f2hRGUbv8
      –

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