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Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians while negotiating nuclear deal

Jul 2, 2018 12:46 pm By Robert Spencer

“If today these Iranians get deported from America, it will become clear who is complicit and sells the national interest like he is selling candies to America.”

How many more gifts to the mullahs from Obama will be discovered?

“Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians during nuclear deal: Iran official,” by Chris Irvine, Fox News, July 2, 2018 (thanks to Robert):

Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour claims that the Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.

The Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, including family members of government officials, while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, a senior cleric and member of parliament has claimed.

Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour, who is chairman of Iran’s parliamentary nuclear committee and a member of its national security and foreign affairs committee, made the allegations during an interview with the country’s Etemad newspaper, cited by the country’s Fars News agency.

He claimed it was done as a favor to senior Iranian officials linked to President Hassan Rouhani, and he alleged the move sparked a competition among Iranian officials over whose children would benefit from the scheme.

He claimed that the deal was made during negotiations for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was reached in July 2015. President Trump announced in May that the U.S. would withdraw from the agreement.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ALLEGEDLY GAVE IRAN ACCESS TO US FINANCIAL SYSTEM

“When Obama, during the negotiations about the JCPOA, decided to do a favor to these men, he granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians and some officials started a competition over whose children could be part of these 2,500 Iranians,” he claimed.

“If today these Iranians get deported from America, it will become clear who is complicit and sells the national interest like he is selling candies to America.”

The conservative Zolnour, who is in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inner circle, added: “It should be stated exactly which children of which authorities live in the United States and have received citizenship or residency.”

He estimated that between 30 and 60 were studying in the U.S. while the rest of them were working in the country “against our national interests.”

Though Zolnour did not mention anyone by name during the interview, several children of current and former Iranian officials live in the United States, including Ali Fereydoun, whose father Hossein Fereydoun is the brother of and special aide to Rouhani; and Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, whose father Ali Larijani is speaker of parliament….

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  1. Ren says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 2:29 pm

    Obama was a closeted filthy muslim.

    • SAE says

      Jul 2, 2018 at 4:29 pm

      ……& he still is. Some things never change.

    • Alex Comnenus says

      Jul 2, 2018 at 9:58 pm

      I have always believe that. I couldn’t believe the dummies elected an anti-American man in the WH.
      What we see today are the remnants of this evil pro Islam and anti-American administration.
      Thank God to have Trump.

    • jusswonderin' says

      Jul 3, 2018 at 6:55 am

      And, Ren, presumably remains “a filthy closeted muslim”!

    • tom parry says

      Jul 3, 2018 at 5:51 pm

      Obama was raised in Hawaii, he was not muslim.. I think you should focus your anger on George Bush.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 3, 2018 at 11:03 pm

        George Bush was dangerously clueless about Islam, but still a patriotic American. Obama was *much* worse.

      • Charles says

        Jul 4, 2018 at 6:37 pm

        Then explain how your Obama went to Columbia on a Foreign Student from Kenya I’d card and received foreign aide.

    • Charles says

      Jul 4, 2018 at 6:38 pm

      Agree

  2. esther says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    I do not recall any terrorism in the USA being done by an Iranian immigrant —
    THE ISSUE WITH IRAN is Hezbollah—–if the guy can pass the Hezbollah
    smell test——–would seem ok to me. There are persecuted GROUPS in
    Iran—-Bahai, Parsi (Zoroastrian) Christians, jews SHEEESH there
    has to be some discretion

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 2, 2018 at 4:48 pm

      Given the context, esther, I doubt that these were Iranians fleeing oppression.

      There’s a disturbing history of Iranian attacks on Americans:

      https://www.aipac.org/-/media/publications/policy-and-politics/aipac-analyses/one-pagers/a-history-of-iranian-attacks-on-americans.pdf

    • Elisha says

      Jul 2, 2018 at 8:57 pm

      Wake up, esther. Are you that naive or just trolling? 2500 people connected to evil Iranian oppressors and they should ALL be deported. Every. Single. One.

    • KJW says

      Jul 3, 2018 at 9:19 pm

      The Iranians that came here pet this guy are not Iranians against the regime nor persecuted religions in Iran. I noticed the difference a few years ago when Iranians in the US were memorializing Ayatollah Khomeini on his death day. An imam was interviewed and he matter of factly said how they were celebrating the day. Americans old enough to remember hate Khomeini besides him being a terrible man.

      Iran also funds mosques and Muslim groups so it’s not the persecuted of oppressed people this guy is talking about-he’s saying mullahs were competing for their family members…MULLAHS.

      There are Iranians here that hate the regime but most cans years ago. I became friends with an Iranian woman in 2001 who was cool.

      Also, an Iranian guy who had gone to school here, lived here for many years with no problem, ended up getting a job at Boeing and became a spy, so to speak, sending Iran info about military parts. He was probably enticed with money as many traitors are.

      I don’t think the deal has meant much. I think it was more an excuse to lift sanctions. Problem is, they’re not helping their people enough.

  3. john spielman says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    if this article is true, obama, aka the Obamanation who sat in the Oval office, should be arrested and tried for TREASON

  4. pemba says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 2:56 pm

    Apply FORCE on FBI to investigate all 2500 ASAP

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    This foolishness and folly might cause all sensible Americans to wonder “Just how irresponsible, treacherous and even treasonous could that former US President Obama actually be ? Some of those Iranian who Obama allowed to become US citizens might be dangerous and deadly jihadist operatives of Iran. What’s more that so called “deal” with Iran is a sick joke at its best and a horrible hoax at its worst. This is a very strong reminder that during the summer month of August in the year of 2010 I had attended a lecture in a church about the subject of Islam. The guest speaker was a man who in times past was a Muslim and a Hezbollah member as well as an Iranian citizen. Now he’s Christian and an American citizen. After the lecture, during the question and answer part, he was asked “Is Obama a Muslim?” The speaker replied that “I don’t know if he is a Muslim but his deception is Islamic.” Then he added about Obama “Whenever he talks he sounds just like a Muslim.” Moreover the guest speaker further said about Obama “He is going to hurt this country.” As just keyboarded above that lecture was hold in the year 2010 and since then Obama had ,indeed, hurt America by and through his words , actions , politics and polices .

    • Marlene stobbart says

      Jul 2, 2018 at 5:19 pm

      There were an Iranian family in Alberta who arrived selling Persian rugs. Built the huge Edmonton mall and are well respected. They arrived in 1977 to escape persecution One cannot fault all.

      • Arryn says

        Jul 3, 2018 at 5:17 am

        Question for you. Are they still Muslims? If not, he is still one of them.

      • commonsense says

        Jul 3, 2018 at 10:25 am

        But they, unlike the Iranians given U.S. citizenship by Obama, were not members of the Mullahs’ inner circle. Big difference!
        Obama, if this latest allegation is true, has committed yet another act of treason; the list of his treasonous offenses were already mind-boggling, especially those in connection with the Iran “deal.” Will he, along with Kerry, Jarerrett, Rhodes, at al., EVER be brought to justice?

        • commonsense says

          Jul 3, 2018 at 10:33 am

          Mistyped Valerie Jarrett’s name. Hate that (and her.)

  6. somehistory says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 4:05 pm

    He refused to help those who were being persecuted and killed by the government, and made it possible for members of government to secure freedom for their children.

    His name and his soul…evil. One day, he will reap what he has sown.

    • SAE says

      Jul 2, 2018 at 4:38 pm

      Romans 12:19 KJV. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ” Vengeance is mine, I will repay, sayeth the Lord”.

      God is good!

      • Elisha says

        Jul 2, 2018 at 9:00 pm

        That great and terrible day, SAE. Joel 2:31.

        God bless.

  7. gravenimage says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 4:45 pm

    Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians while negotiating nuclear deal
    ………………

    Well, this is disturbing–but not a surprise. I hope they are all investigated.

  8. Kepha says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 9:58 pm

    Big fat hairy deal! Granting citizenship to 2,500 Iranians–Why am I not surprised?

    Please cut the alarmism; and I write as someone who has no love for the Iranian regime. Let me guess. A bunch of people had been walking around the USA on green cards for a number of years (admitted as relatives of US citizens, persons with rare skills, as refugees who later adjusted status…), find the number of years is greater than five, pass a test, some screening, and then get sworn in by a judge. That’s how it happens.

    In the same period of time, how many Russians became Americans this way? Dominicans? Salvadoreans? Chinese? Egyptians? Israelis? Nigerians? Brits…?

    As for relatives of Iranian government officials becoming citizens, that was what ultimately happened to the former Soviet Sergei Nikitich Khruschev, too. Svetlana Stalin even held US citizenship for a number of years. Adolf Hitler’s nephew William (British-born son of his half-brother Alois) actually served in the US Navy during WWII. I’m sure there are relatives of high Chinese cadre who have obtained US citizenship.

    Do you realize that the USA has given citizenship to more victims of an-Nakhba and their offspring (via the birthright citizenship enshrined in the 14th Amendment) than any seven Arabic-speaking nations excluding Israel and Jordan put together? And this despite the unalloyed hostility of the PA and Hamas towards us.

    When I worked in the Illinois Regional Archive Directory, I found records of scads of enemy aliens from World War II (German, Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Finnish), many of which had the FBI signing off as “fundamentally loyal to the USA”.

    I would not count on Mojtaba Zolnour knowing all that much about US immigration law and naturalization procedures. I doubt he had the foggiest about how many people of all national origins the US naturalizes in any president’s term of office. Further, I would also not be surprised if a lot of those Iranians who took advantage of their legal status to obtain US citizenship might have done so because they loathed the mullah-ocracy. I would not be surprised that some might have been of Assyrian or Armenian ethnicity, some perhaps Zoroastrian, Bahai, or apostates from Islam who had been champing at the bit for their appointments with the American naturalization examiners and judges.

    I’m sure Iranians, Sudanese, Saudis, and others became US citizens under the administrations of Reagan, both Bushes, and Clinton as well; and there is probably an Iranian cramming for his naturalization exam this very night when Mr. Trump is in the White House.

    Yes, we need to maintain vigilance. Yes, we need to be sure our immigration laws are followed and enforced. And I’m also pretty sure that when these 2,500 Iranians applied for naturalization, ICE looked pretty closely at their cases as well. Further, if these people turn out subversive or criminal, by all means revoke citizenship and deport! But, to all of them who came legally and plan to remain as law-abiding US citizens, Uncle Kepha offers a hearty welcome.

    • KJW says

      Jul 3, 2018 at 9:30 pm

      These 2500 would be fans of the regime. Never in my lifetime did we have Iranians celebrating Ayatollah Khomeini’s death Memorial Day in the US nor the number of Iranian clerics here-this is new. That should tell you that’s no longer Iranians who hate the regime. An Iranian woman in Canada wrote an article on Gatestone Institute’s site about how she was angry that the Toronto government was sponsoring a hijab day-what she was trying to get away from. Needless to say, all the people who left Islamic countries for freedoms are quite pissed off.

  9. Kepha says

    Jul 2, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    “He [the Hajatoleslam] claimed it was done as a favor to senior Iranian officials linked to President Hassan Rouhani, and he alleged the move sparked a competition among Iranian officials over whose children would benefit from the scheme.”

    Hooey and Baloney–and not halal mortadella at that (BTW, I do not like bologna).

    Mr. Obama can no more give citizenship to anyone by fiat than Mr. Trump or any other American president can. If Mrs. Trump has a sibling admitted to the US under that provision of law, that sib will also have to wait the statutory five years before applying for naturalization (unless, of course, the sib joins the military, or somehow gets some kind of employment with the US government requiring an expeditious naturalization, or marries an American who gets recruited into the military or foreign service…).

    Again, I hold no candle for the Iranian regime; I think that the O maladministration was a disaster; and I certainly believe that Dame Shrillary’s election loss was a case of the USA dodging a bullet. But I know too much about the US immigration and naturalization process to feel either alarm, surprise, or indignation that a certain number of Iranians got naturalized; and I certainly would not put too much stock in what some Iranian cleric thinks about what US naturalization may or may not mean in certain cases.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 3, 2018 at 11:08 pm

      Kepha-with all respect–I would not make light of Muslims flooding into the US.

  10. infidel says

    Jul 3, 2018 at 2:43 am

    Since the toxic deal is off with these vermin. Trump has every right to identify the vermin that were granted citizenship as part of the deal and boot them back to the hell where they come frm.

  11. RichardL says

    Jul 3, 2018 at 6:15 am

    The stuff that will come out on 0bama will even shock many Democrats. He was a typical liberal: of mediocre intelligence, no style, and no conscience since they all believe that their ends justify any means and failures on the way to those ends.

    I wonder whether Valerie Jarret was not an Iranian plant from way back.

  12. Wakeup says

    Jul 3, 2018 at 8:42 am

    It is really time that obama came under investigation it is clear to me that he worked against America’s interests.

  13. Richard Courtemanche says

    Jul 3, 2018 at 9:59 am

    Review all and reject as necessary. And prosecute Obama.

  14. Jimdandi says

    Jul 3, 2018 at 9:59 am

    Last night, on Fox (Laura Ingraham’s show, I think), and woman who had some part in negotiating the Iran deal strongly denied these allegations made by the Iranian parliment individual. Guess we’ll find out what the truth is eventually.

  15. TWG says

    Jul 3, 2018 at 11:21 am

    We can bet a good number of them are working diligently within the U.S. “Intelligence”, State Department”, Nuclear Weaponry & Technology and “National Security” cabal.

    barack hussain and his IRANIAN sidekick, valerie jarrett, were very busy installing their army deep into our infrastructure during their reign of terror here in our White House.

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