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Trump administration halts taxpayer-funded purchases of Iranian nuclear materials

Nov 29, 2017 3:39 pm By Robert Spencer

“Iran was deliberately overproducing heavy water and then telling the U.S. ‘buy it from us or it’ll blow up the deal.’ The Obama administration paid, effectively rewarding Iran for violating the nuclear deal. The Trump administration refused to let the Iranians hold the deal hostage.”

This is good. Now end the deal altogether.

“Trump Admin Halts Taxpayer-Funded Purchases of Iranian Nuclear Materials,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 29, 2017:

The Trump administration has put a stop to U.S. purchases of nuclear materials from Iran, a policy that first began under the Obama administration in an attempt to ensure Iran remains in compliance with the landmark nuclear deal, according to U.S. officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

The Obama administration sparked controversy in Congress and the national security world when it announced in late 2016 that it would spend more than $8 million dollars to purchase Iranian heavy water, a nuclear byproduct, in a bid to keep the Islamic Republic in line with restrictions on these materials imposed under the nuclear agreement.

The Obama administration, in what lawmakers described as a “potentially illegal” taxpayer-funded transaction, paid at least $8.6 million to purchase 32 metric tons of heavy water from Iran. The nuclear byproduct can be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium, which is why restrictions were initially placed on Tehran’s stockpile.

The transaction occurred via an offshore third-party, according to U.S. officials, who made clear at the time that it would engage in further purchases if they were needed to help keep Iran in compliance with the nuclear deal.

After leaving the door open to additional purchases, senior Trump administration officials confirmed to the Free Beacon on Wednesday that the U.S. government would no longer engage in these nuclear transactions with Iran, a major policy shift that sources say is part of an effort to crackdown on Iran’s access to U.S. funds.

Lawmakers and other insiders had viewed the $8.6 million payment to Iran as a scheme to give Iran access to U.S. currency as part of an incentive package aimed at keeping it in compliance with the nuclear deal. The former administration stonewalled several attempts by lawmakers to discern the full details of the transaction.

Trump administration officials told the Free Beacon they have informed Iran that it is now solely responsible for maintaining compliance with the nuclear deal.

“No, the United States is not planning to purchase any Iranian heavy water,” a White House National Security Council spokesperson told the Free Beacon. “We have made it clear to Iran that it is their responsibility to remain under their heavy water limit in the JCPOA,” or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the official title of the nuclear agreement….

“This is another place where the Trump administration is saying ‘no’ to Iranian extortion and blackmail,” said the source, a veteran Middle East policy expert who routinely works with congressional offices on the Iran issue.

“Iran was deliberately overproducing heavy water and then telling the U.S. ‘buy it from us or it’ll blow up the deal’,” the source said. “The Obama administration paid, effectively rewarding Iran for violating the nuclear deal. The Trump administration refused to let the Iranians hold the deal hostage.”…

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 4:48 pm

    President Trump will do much better than Obama did on handling the subject of the dangers posed by the Islamic rogue state of Iran. It’s rather obvious that President Trump will do better since Obama could not have done much worse. Furthermore, It’s very obvious that the tyrants in power in this Islamic regime had and have no real or sincere intentions even for the start of keeping any of their promises in a nuclear “agreement deal” with Western nations. As for ,example ,the other month a “test firing” of a missile by Iran, In addition , it was reported on CBN on 5/7/16 only two days before this CBN report the Iran not only launched other “test firing” of missile. The “test firing” of that missile and it even had printed on that missile words in Hebrew that read “Israel must be wiped off the map.” This along exposes the vicious and destructive intention of the mullahs and others in power in this Islamic rogue state of Iran. There were other “test firing of other missiles by earlier this very year by the Islamic tyranny of Iran. This shows the gall and defiance of those mullahs and ayatollahs along those other Muslim villains in power in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran their total arrogant contempt for the US and the other Western nations in this so called “deal.” Those Muslim clerics and other Muslim tyrants in power in this cruel and oppressive Islamic tyranny are, in character, reflected in the Bible in Psalm 73:6-9. Which reads, “Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their mind know limits. They scoff and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.” [N.I.V.]

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 4:48 pm

    The folly and foolishness of Obama and Kerry must have no limit that they had felt they could have come to a worthwhile deal of good value with that tyrannical “mullah regime” of Iran by attempting to work out a compromise with those Muslim tyrants in power in Iran. The outcome of foolishly trying to work out a compromise resulted that the hoax and farce of a “deal.” A former US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt , had well-spoken when he said “There has never been – there never can be – successful compromise between good and evil.”

  3. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 4:57 pm

    If evil United States refuses to abide the tërms of nuclear deal in toto, then Iran deserves the right to tear it up and start testing ICBMs to deliver hydrogen nuclear bombs to counter the world the evil United States. North Korea is already up to teeth and mad Trump is scared whenever North Korea is mentioned

    • Voytek Gagalka says

      Nov 29, 2017 at 5:13 pm

      If evil Islamic “republic” of Iran will do that then it deserves to be completely obliterated from the face of earth. As for NORKs, it was sufficient to blast them before whole of the UN general assembly to bring them in line, cowardly school bullies they are.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Nov 30, 2017 at 7:51 am

        votek, any such attemp by evil United States means obliteration of evil fascist Zionist state of Israhell and evil United States itself. Let mad devil Trump take your entities to that game. Idiots!!

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 30, 2017 at 8:37 pm

          Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed openly admits that Muslims would target Israel even if they face no threat from her. *Ugh*.

    • mike9a says

      Nov 29, 2017 at 6:01 pm

      beside capacity to hate, does anyone see here any other mental capacity?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 29, 2017 at 8:41 pm

      Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed is saying that if we do not continue to fund violent Jihad against ourselves that Muslims have the right to wage violent Jihad against us.

      Am I sensing a theme here?

    • Johnny Cuyana says

      Nov 29, 2017 at 10:16 pm

      Hmmm … Iran has NOT yet signed this deal, i.e., the JCPOA.

      So, what is there for them to tear up?

    • WESTPAC Spy says

      Nov 29, 2017 at 11:48 pm

      Be careful what you ask for, Ibrahim. Because you’ll get it. Good and hard.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Nov 30, 2017 at 3:18 pm

        westpac spy, we want it. Let happen now. Idiots!!

    • Joe says

      Nov 30, 2017 at 10:34 pm

      Iran deserves some MOABs. Plus Mekka deserves a nice glass pit. But we in America are not as hateful and dumb as Muslims. So be thankful.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    First point: much, if not all, of that money Iran has now obtained, thanks to Obama and Kerry, will now go into funding weapons and other supplies to Iran murderous terror proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Second point: not too long ago young Iranian woman who now lives in an American city that I now also live in. This city has a newspaper and she wrote an article how she and her mother had returned from visiting her sick and dying grandmother in the hospital in Tehran in Iran In that article this young women explained that the medical and health care in Iran’s hospitals is so terrible that the people of Iran view hospitals s place that people go to not get better but to die. The reason the this second point is brought up is that the mullahs and ayatollahs as well as others in power in this Islamic tyranny Iran will not invest those news funds from, Obama and Kerry, in better health care in hospitals but instead use that money to engage in more support for brutal and murderous militant jihad organizations . For those tyrants in power in Iran don’t care, at all, about the Iranian people. They are only interested in furthering their mad jihad Islamic quest.

    • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

      Nov 30, 2017 at 8:53 am

      Hesbullah is not murderous. they deter fascist Zionist state of Israhell from its expansionist ambition and helped to defeat murderous Zionist Isis. Today evil state of Israhell is no longer harassing Lebanon because of Hesbullah’s resilience.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 30, 2017 at 3:31 pm

        They aren’t murderous–after all, they are only slaughtering Jews and the “insufficiently Islam”, which is perfectly Halal.

  5. sidney penny says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 5:34 pm

    “This is good. Now end the deal altogether.”

    Great comment.

    Ending it will send a great message to Iran.

    Stop sending USD to Iran and Pakistan.

    No benefit to US and with Double Face Pakistan giving money to them is worse.

  6. nicholas tesdorf says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 7:54 pm

    All that America stands to receive from Iran, at present, is ‘Wallah, Wallah, Ayatollah”

  7. gravenimage says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 8:37 pm

    Trump administration halts taxpayer-funded purchases of Iranian nuclear materials
    …………………….

    Excellent!

  8. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    Sorry Robert, Donald Trump took this year’s award:

    http://barenakedislam.com/2017/11/29/congratulations-to-president-donald-trump-islamophobe-of-the-year/

  9. Koosemo says

    Nov 30, 2017 at 12:06 am

    Ya Ibrahim just get lost.

    • Mark T says

      Nov 30, 2017 at 7:27 am

      He did. He’s probably on a farm with a goat. In a way that is very unpleasant for the goat.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 30, 2017 at 8:38 pm

        Poor goat!

  10. Charles says

    Nov 30, 2017 at 1:41 pm

    This INSANITY must stop!
    The satanic muslims ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS!
    Once these savages have even one atom bomb, they will use it to start WW3.
    It doesn’t take a genius or some egg head with a PHD to see where this will all end.
    THE SOLUTION?
    A preemptive strike by us or in concert with our allies. The sooner, the better!

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