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Trump says Iran “playing with fire,” imposes new sanctions in wake of missile tests

Feb 3, 2017 12:07 pm By Robert Spencer

After eight years of Obama’s appeasement and empowering of Iran (while the Iranians chanted “Death to America”), this is good to see. The Iranian mullahs who lead the Islamic Republic are itching for war with the United States, as I detail in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. They may get it. If they do, American Leftists will howl even louder than they are howling now, and praise Obama for keeping the peace. They will not discuss Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel or its global jihad terror network. For some people, peace is to be maintained at any cost, no matter how high. But if this rogue regime is able to carry out its full plans, some will rue the day that they denounced Trump for standing up to it.

“U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Iran in Wake of Missile Tests,” by Nick Wadhams and Saleha Mohsin, Bloomberg, February 3, 2017:

The U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on Iran as President Donald Trump seeks to punish Tehran for its ballistic missile program after warning that the Islamic Republic that it is “playing with fire.”

In a statement Friday morning, the Treasury Department published a list of 13 individuals and 12 entities facing new restrictions for supporting the missile program, having links to terrorism or providing support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The entities include companies based in Tehran, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and China.

“This action reflects the United States’ commitment to enforcing sanctions on Iran with respect to its ballistic missile program and destabilizing activities in the region and is fully consistent with the United States’ commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” the statement said in a reference to the nuclear accord Iran reached with the U.S. and five other world powers.

The Trump administration has taken a hard line on Iran, banning its citizens from entering the U.S. and accusing the nation of interfering in the affairs of U.S. allies in the Middle East. While such an approach could satisfy hawks in Washington who were never comfortable with President Barack Obama’s tentative rapprochement with Iran, it could also unsettle domestic Iranian politics as President Hassan Rouhani seeks re-election in May.

“Iran is playing with fire — they don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!,” Trump tweeted early Friday….

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  1. Mike says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    The world is finally coming to its senses and doing something about the Iranian problem.

    THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP.

    THANK YOU “DEPLORABLES” WHO VOTED FOR HIM.
    This is the THIRD time in recent history that you save the world from horror: WWII, the Cold War and now. The political intelligence of the average farmer in Kansas is MILES above that of the average ivory tower academic, and ever let “them” tell you otherwise!

    Once again, THANK YOU “DEPLORABLES”, because you’re saving the rest of us along with yourselves, and all you get are people making fun of you for it, whereas you’re the actual heroes of the world time and time again.

    • Pastor C says

      Feb 3, 2017 at 1:14 pm

      Unless we deal with the imminent threats posed by Iran and North Korea in their demonic attempts to annihilate America and Israel with an EMP attack, all the ‘back and forth’ between our new president and these nations is demonstrably useless.

      The clear and present danger of an EMP attack being launched against the United States can, indeed, completely destroy our nation in one fell swoop!

      What, exactly, is being done to safeguard against it and protect the homeland?

      If any of our readers know, let me know. And please be specific!

    • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

      Feb 3, 2017 at 3:39 pm

      @ Pastor C

      I thank the deplorable s with you.

      Your president did not hit the ground running, its more like a world record sprint.

      • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

        Feb 3, 2017 at 9:44 pm

        You are most welcome Pastor! And it sure is ‘a world record sprint’!

        This is our job you know: America, protecting liberty against the tyrants. And we love to hear kind words such as yours-

        We thank Almighty God for His mercy to our country. Given abortion, homosexual ‘marriage’ and other evils, He would have been quite justified to rain down his wrath. But I think that over the last 8 horrible years of Obama, many Americans repented and returned to Him.

        Please keep us in your good prayers Pastor-

  2. Pacificrain says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    Thus starts a new epoch!

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    Of course the mullahs and ayatollahs as well as the other Muslims who have so much power and control in that Islamic tyranny of Iran are “playing with fire.” For we are not talking about rational people but ,at best, the childish mindset of “I dare you.”‘ and about the stopping those hostile missile tests as saying “Make me.” Even worse they also strongly process the blind ,unquestioning fanatical faith in their god of Islam ,Allah. Therefore they are so extremely irrational that might actually like a war to start withe United States and their tyrannical Islamic regime because the feel and believe ,in their Islamic delusion , if a great war starts then their Islamic messiah who they call the Mahdi ,other wise known as the Twelfth Imam will finally appear and then conquer the whole words for Islam. So those fanatical and deluded Ayatollahs and mullahs and other like-minded Muslims in this Islamic regime cannot be reason with. They will not respond to either reason of logic. They are dangerous Islamic characters and they are also an extreme example of the idea printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALAMANCK by Benjamin Franklin. the that periodical reads that “To see by the eye of faith is to shut the door of reason.”

    • DFD says

      Feb 3, 2017 at 1:56 pm

      Walter Sieruk says: “….Even worse they also strongly process the blind ,unquestioning fanatical faith in their god of Islam ,Allah. Therefore they are so extremely irrational that might actually like a war… …in their Islamic delusion , if a great war starts then their Islamic messiah who they call the Mahdi …. will finally appear and then conquer the whole words for Islam. So those fanatical and deluded Ayatollahs and mullahs and other like-minded Muslims …. They will not respond to either reason of logic. They are dangerous Islamic characters and…”

      Walter, I think that’s true for about half to three quarters of the Muslims, if not more. Not just the mullahs in Iran. As long as the **entire west** (or perhaps all of Christian civilization) doesn’t comprehend that, we’ll get more of the same. Day after day after….

      Why is that so difficult to comprehend? Islam is at war with the west – and everybody else in addition. ‘Our’ trusted “NATO ally” Erdogan effectively said so!

  4. David Scoltock says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    America saved the world from horror in WW2?

    America gave a great deal of assistance but it was a team effort old boy.

  5. David Scoltock says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 1:00 pm

    Now here we have a clear example of America and consequences.

    Back in the day Iran was a secular, democratic nation. However they had this evil idea of nationalising their oil industry so they could put that money into their own economy and not line the pockets of American and British oil companies.

    America and Britain then funded the overthrow of this legitimate, democratic system and replaced it with a tyrant of a monarch. But America and Britain made lost of money so they didn’t care about the innocents murdered by this regime.

    Then an islamic nutjob takes advantage of the people’s unrest and hatred of the system and the West for imposing such tyranny and we get the islamic revolution that led to the current situation.

    Moral to the story? Stop imposing regimes on other countries.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 3, 2017 at 3:30 pm

      “Then an islamic nutjob takes advantage of the people’s unrest and hatred of the system and the West for imposing such tyranny and we get the islamic revolution that led to the current situation.

      Moral to the story? Stop imposing regimes on other countries.”

      What, no condemnation of the USSR and the KGB for orchestrating the coup that set Khomeini in power? I would expect someone who is genuinely against “imposing regimes on other countries” to be impartial and oppose “regime changes” no matter who orchestrates them…

    • VRWC member77 says

      Feb 3, 2017 at 3:45 pm

      Yeah. You could also build a time machine and take a ride “back in the day” to make good use of all that virtue signaling, too.

  6. Guest says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    Your time is up Iran

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 1:15 pm

    That should be done already in 2003, by Bush. Instead of going after “little” guy, Saddam, who did not threat America and American interests, they should better dismantle Iranian regime instead, the main supporter of Islamic terrorism. How the world today would be different now if that would have happen!

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 4, 2017 at 12:30 am

      Both Iran *and* the Abominable House of Saud.

      The centre and focus of Shiite Islam; and Saudi Arabia, the centre of *Sunni* Islam.

      Then, on the next tier, rapidly-going-sharia Turkey (time to boot Fethulla Gulen and *every* ‘Gulenist’ out of the USA) and Erdogan; and horrible Islamic Pakistan, and sinister little Qatar.

      Pakistan and Turkey should *lose* all aid (= jizya or tribute) that they extort from non-Muslim states. Turkey needs to be OUT of NATO, and it shoiuld *never* be admitted to the EU.

      And put Egypt and Indonesia ‘on notice’ that if they put so much as a *toe* out of line, they will suffer severely.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Feb 4, 2017 at 12:33 am

        Oh yes, and the so-called ‘poooooor “palestinians”, who merely comprise the local ‘arab’ (or arabised) Muslims in and around Israel.

        Cut *them* off, too. Not one more cent in ‘aid’ from America should they received; and American funding to the UNRWA should cease, absolutely.

        Reassign the money previously paid to these creeps, to the following areas 1/ Homeland Security (in case they try to extort a resumption of jizya payments, by carrying out or threatening jihad attacks) and 2/ Israel (invest the money in advanced military R & D; mutual benefit for the Israelis and for the Camp of the Infidels in general).

  8. davej says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    This is a much more dangerous confrontation than was the cold War with the Soviets. The religious fanatics of Iran are not rational players, they are consumed with blind hatred and an end of world prophesy. They will not negotiate and will not be deterred by any consequence to their own nation. They possess the death wish of the true martyr.

    Unfortunately these are people that are going to have to be fought to the death, like it or not.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 4, 2017 at 12:38 am

      You know, I think Donald Trump *knows* this. He has been worrying about nukes in the hands of non-rational actors – whether non-state or ‘rogue’ state – since **the 1980s**.

      I read an article, an interview with him, that was published in **1987**. Years and years before he made his play for the Presidency. He had an uncle who worked at MIT – in *nuclear physics* (true!) and who had really put the wind up him, about the cheapening and the greater accessibility of nuke technology, and what might happen once it got into the claws of ‘loose cannons’, people for whom MAD was meaningless. And… back then.. he had a pilot, who had worked for mad-as-a-cut-snake Gaddafi… and had told Trump all about it… and Trump *took him seriously*.

      I think he’s been lying awake o’nights worrying, and thinking, and worrying some more, and wondering where to get information, where to get accurate advice, and trying to figure out ways of putting the squeeze on entities like Iran… and I don’t think Pakistan is off his ‘to-do’ list, either.

      BTW – back in 1987, he had paid close attention when the Israelis pounced, and annihilated Saddam Hussein’s little nuke project. I BET he danced a quiet little happy dance around the room, when the Israelis annihilated Assad’s little nuke project… and nobody in the Ummah, or beyond it (Russia, china) did nuthin.

      I am sure that he has discussed Iran – and not only Iran – with Benjamin Netanyahu.

      • davej says

        Feb 4, 2017 at 3:39 am

        @dda

        Interesting. He may be a scoundrel in some areas but I think he is genuinely a patriot. He has the scoundrel balls to speak the truth abut the greatest threat to America, ever.

  9. common sense says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 2:04 pm

    Good! Lets put em where they belong “in the back of the h cue”. No offense to Brits intended.
    The sooner we replace opec with the 12% of imported oil we consume the better. Canada is still our largest producer of imported oil, it sure is a coincidence to see how fast Islam is working the Canucks over aint it?

    • common sense says

      Feb 3, 2017 at 2:13 pm

      12% from opec, 24% of our total petroleum consumption is imported (2015).

  10. common sense says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    Common sense” (me) usually posts views of the common man or woman and hopefully adds some fire to the solutions we seek to the problematic bigotry of Islamic Supremacism and Jihad attacks.
    I admittedly have little profound knowlege of Islam that many of the posts here display and Robert often educates us on.
    If I could ask JW readers to make sure when reading comments that I’m the original “common sense” posting. “Commonsense”is a new post I’ve not seen and all of our views are variable and in light of real world problems its not a big deal I’d just rather not be confused for someone elses words. I can make myself look bad all on my own thank you.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 3, 2017 at 10:13 pm

      Yes–always difficult when different posters have similar usernames.

  11. Angemon says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    The Trump administration has taken a hard line on Iran, banning its citizens from entering the U.S.

    And rightfully so.

    and accusing the nation of interfering in the affairs of U.S. allies in the Middle East.

    Which they have.

    While such an approach could satisfy hawks in Washington who were never comfortable with President Barack Obama’s tentative rapprochement with Iran,

    Never mind whether these alleged hawks are satisfied or not: are Trump’s policies a boon or a hindrance?

    it could also unsettle domestic Iranian politics as President Hassan Rouhani seeks re-election in May.

    That’s his problem, isn’t it? Why should the US care that an anti-American head of state, one that promotes and funds terrorist groups who have their sights on America, faces internal opposition?

  12. Champ says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 3:32 pm

    “Iran is playing with fire — they don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!,” Trump tweeted early Friday….

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Bravo President Trump!

    And the president is the one who’s being “kind” since obama was foolish and made things more dangerour for America, Israel, and the world–really, in how he handled iran.

    obama ignored all of iran’s “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” threats over the years, but President Trump won’t, and this is as it should be.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 3, 2017 at 10:14 pm

      🙂

  13. Bezelel says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 5:33 pm

    I’m not looking for the Trump admin to stay in a defensive posture just trying to guess what the opposition will do next. Saudi’s are right next door and already fighting Iran in Yemen. Alot of players in the region and they aren’t shia friendly. I believe I read somewhere that Iran ultimately wants to control the straights of hormuz. Unchecked they will.

  14. Champ says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 5:43 pm

    WORLD NEWS | Fri Feb 3, 2017 | 11:57am EST

    U.S. sends Navy destroyer to patrol off Yemen amid Iran tensions: officials

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-yemen-idUSKBN15I25F

  15. Transmaster says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    I would consider buying stock in General Dynamics, and Raytheon/McDonnell Douglas. These companies make the Tomahawk Cruise missile. The Tomahawk flies and 550 mph and has a range of 1100 miles. I have a hunch that Iran is going to be introduced to them in large numbers in the near future.

  16. American Pragmatism says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 7:51 pm

    Go Trump!

  17. gravenimage says

    Feb 3, 2017 at 10:08 pm

    Trump says Iran “playing with fire,” imposes new sanctions in wake of missile tests
    …………………….

    Yes–I heard this on the radio this morning. Excellent news!

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