In a sane world, the “Death-to-America” chanting mullahs would be the ones who would have to show goodwill, but this is not a sane world.
“If it demonstrates the kind of good faith that can cause reciprocal good faith from the Iranian side, then it is potentially a good step forward,” says the unaptly-named Thomas Countryman. This is an indication of how disastrously naive and ill-informed our foreign policy “experts” really are. If the good Countryman and his colleagues understood even the basics about Islam, from Islamic sources rather than soothing propaganda for non-Muslim Westerners, they would know that any show of goodwill by the U.S. will be seen in Tehran as weakness to take advantage of, not as a gesture of good faith to be reciprocated. But Countryman and his ilk are unteachable in this regard, for they would regard the facts of the case as “Islamophobic.”
“US weighing $1b in humanitarian aid for Iran as a show of goodwill – CNN,” Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2021 (thanks to the Geller Report):
The United States is considering the option of unfreezing $1 billion in Iranian funds to be used for humanitarian aid purposes as a possible goodwill gesture in the attempt to reach a new nuclear deal, CNN reported on Thursday, citing three sources who had been briefed on the internal deliberations with the Islamic Republic.
According to the report, the aid will be transferred to a Swiss Channel, called Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement, which is designed to bring humanitarian aid to the citizens of Iran without violating US sanctions.
“If it demonstrates the kind of good faith that can cause reciprocal good faith from the Iranian side, then it is potentially a good step forward,” Thomas Countryman, who served as US assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation from 2011 to 2017, told CNN.
Iran, on its end, continues to instead demand sanction relief in order to comply with a new agreement, according to the report….
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Feeding the Monster.
mortimer says
Iran sez ‘Death to America!’
Bribed-man sez ‘How much cash do you want?’
william says
Seriouly? Where will this money come from? USA is drowning in debt.
william says
Seriously
spiro says
Your right but nobody cares or isn’t interested until it’s time to pay the band when the party’s over
Then lookout
Greece a few years ago but nobody to bail us out
Jay says
Biden is a traitor and an idiot! This is the definition of insanity !
There are no words to describe the stupidity of the Biden administration and we all
know there is no cure for STUPID !
God bless America ????
mortimer says
The sleepy, crumbling Bribed-man has no effectual or decision-making participation in the executive function.
maria says
HE is the worst DemonRat and should be sentenced to life in an asylum for lunatics.
it is no excuse that he is mentally ill
maria says
He is a traitor sick or not. Life sentence in closed asylum for murderers
Phil Copson says
They aren’t stupid – they’re malevolent. They’re perfectly happy to watch the destruction, just so long as nothing happens to them personally.
Do politicians of any stripe ever live in the squalid neighbourhoods they create for other people? Has AOC given up her salary and gone to sleep in a shop door-way to show her solidarity with the Keystone pipe-line workers whose lives she’s been so eager to wreck? Did Carter move to Tehran after giving the nod to the mullahs to depose the Shah?
They will no more give up their privileged lives than Kerry will give up his private jet, Markle renounce her ridiculous Royal title, or Merkel share her apartment with half-a-dozen Afghan migrants: They only want bad things to happen to other people.
owensgate says
Yeah, the pallets of “cash” weren’t enough. But “printed currency”? Really, they should probably ship them hard gold bullion from Fort Knox – if there’s any gold there at all. Then we don’t have to worry about Iran getting caught up in hyper inflation and unable to complete their Nukes and pay their proxy fighters. What a relief for the World. Peace in our time.
mortimer says
How much PLUTONIUM can they create for $1 billion ???
BlackSabbath says
About 250 pounds or 113 Kg of Plutonium-239 which is used to make nukes.
mortimer says
THIS WEEK: Iran released a video depicting the EXPLOSION of the U.S. Capitol. This comes while the Biden Administration still seeks a deal on nuclear weapons with Iran. On May 2nd, the Ayatollah played this video as some kind of sick attempt to stir the Iranian people with the dream of destroying the United States.
https://rumble.com/vgmhwx-iran-releases-propaganda-video-of-us-capitol-exploding.html
Wellington says
Biden, even at his best, was a total mediocrity. Now, he is a mediocrity with dementia and controlled excessively by handlers—Susan Rice et al. in a more immediate way and by the worst President in American history, one Barack Obama, in a more removed but still highly influential way.
With Joe Biden we have for the first time in American Presidential history the Presidency controlled by a de facto committee. Hell, Dementia Joe can hardly go one day without screwing up some statement or other—those denying this are either liars or stupid.
Some previous Presidents, for instance someone like Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893), functioned as a kind of chairman of the board, but we are now way beyond a mere chairman of the board type of President. We are now, in full measure, with a sorrowful, declining man as a front man for a committee of fools and idiots controlling this nothing who has been a professional politician for some half century now and has done no good of any kind in all this time.
America is drifting. Rather like having Commodus, Didius Julianus or Pertinax as Emperor before pure authoritarian rule set in under a type like Septimius Severus.
This drift is ominous. It is continuing. And so much else of the West has gone into absurd political territory—Merkel, Macron and the current Pope serving as additional examples. Conclude accordingly.
mortimer says
Psaki couldn’t bite her tongue, but just admitted that letting Old Joe answer question is to be avoided. They must STOP the president from saying anything, clearly because he is not in charge. He doesn’t even know what the plan is. He finds out the moment he reads it on the teleprompter screen. We could have a mechanical voice reading it. Old Joe isn’t necessary.
If the scholarly Wellington can easily see the puppet strings, then why are many more intelligent people not saying the same thing? Don’t most of us see the strings?
The other day, Crumbling, Bumbling Old Joe told people to look up ‘vaccination DOT GUM’ … then again reading from the teleprompter, he repeated the words … ‘vaccination DOT GUM’
This man is in an obvious decline. A doctor referred to ‘multi-infarct dementia’ … the effect of having a number of mild strokes.
The question I have is whether the management committee like Joe like this
Infidel says
Since the FBI is not likely to do it, Israel should open up an investigation into any bribes that Biden, Obama or any of the handlers are getting in order to pass these policies. Get all the data and publish them in the open, so that everybody in the world knows what’s at play. And it can be the basis of prosecuting them all for treason the next time the GOP comes to power
LB says
Israel has no merit undermining their relationship with the current US administration. If anything, Israel is desperate to maintain good (or even just neutral) relations at all costs. Trump was the best president Israel could ever ask for, but they didn’t blink an eye when the obviously fake and stolen election results came out and just threw him under the bus immediately (Netanyahu changed his Twitter banner cutting out Trump back in November). Had Israel wanted to do something it could’ve done it back then, but the fact of the matter is that it receives too much monetary aid from the US government and does not want to risk losing it, even if it means Kamala administration giving free billions to Israel’s mortal enemies.
gravenimage says
LB, your implication that Israel could have done something about the US elections is not borne out.
LB says
GI, it’s not my implication, it’s Infidel’s. If you re-read my comment, I’m explicitly implying that Israel CANNOT, or rather, DOES NOT WANT to meddle in internal US politics (at least insofar as it continues to receive monetary aid), which runs counter to his statement that “Israel should open up an investigation into any bribes that Biden, Obama or any of the handlers are getting in order to pass these policies”. I never said that Israel SHOULD have gotten involved in US elections; I was merely giving an example.
gravenimage says
Biden’s handlers considering giving Iran $1,000,000,000 as show of goodwill
………………..
Suicidal insanity.
Not only is forking boatloads of American taxpayer money to our enemies not going to earn us any goodwill, but what makes Biden think that they are apt to use this money for anything other than developing their nuclear program to threaten Israel and us?
James Lincoln says
But, gravenimage…
Aren’t Sleepy Joe’s handlers guaranteeing that *all* of the money – every dime – will be used for the benefit of the Iranian citizens? (sarc/off)
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Andrew Blackadder says
Oh how the muslims around the entire World are laughing and laughing at the weakness they see coming from the Oval Office today, plus they are watching Western females fall over their self righteous shallow selves in defending a religion that despises their very existence.
The World has gone bat shit crazy.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is either a treasonous villain or a total idiot .Be it the former or the latter reason ,Biden is completely unfit to be the Chief Executive of the USA .
One only valid reason not to remove him from Office is because he would then be replaced by the callous laughing Marxist , Kamala Harris
JohnTheRevelator says
Not only is it incredibly stupid and dangerous to financially reward a terrorist regime, it is also criminal. But then who’s going to throw the US president and his corrupt, rotten regime in jail? Obama got away with it, now it’s Biden’s turn.
Just imagine how ecstatic the Mullahs felt when the giant pallets of billions of dollars arrived, thanks to Obama. This will only ‘prove’ to these lunatics that threats, violence and Islam works. The stupid infidels are demonstrating their submission to their Muslim superiors.
Islam is winning globally. In the UK hordes of Muslim gang-rapists are getting away with shattering the lives of thousands of little girls, while the police/social services/media/politicians all turn a blind eye.
In Africa Muslims are slaughtering Christians and other non-Muslims with reckless abandon. In Europe they continue to invade on a daily basis, mosques are growing like poisonous mushrooms, terrorism and rioting is on the rise.
In Israel they’re also pressing their advantage because a strong right-wing govt in the US (under Trump) no longer exists…is it any wonder the Muslims feel more emboldened than ever?
We continue to head down the wrong track. Most of these problems were easily solvable if we simply stood up for western values, recognized Islam/Muslims as our enemy and fought back, even mildly. Now it’s just going to get worse and the only outcome will be civil war as Muslims become even more thuggish and violent and we’ll be forced to defend ourselves.
That’s the worst way to fight back, on your enemy’s terms rather than you own, since they’ll always have the advantage over you.
Johnny B says
I actually think most people today will consider you bigoted, racist, islamophobic and what not if you object to this. But what do you expect in a world that has turned mentally ill? The Bible even warned us about these times and it’s probably just the beginning of it all 🙁
Alfredo says
After decades in the Swamp foggy Joe to still be so ignorant of even the fundamentals of Islamic ideology, is beyond naive. It is downright stupid.
The blokes in charge of the Biden foreign policy, are either a bunch of bumbling incompetents of outright complicit in the deliberate weakening of the United States geopolitical position.
To even entertain the notion that by releasing a cool Billion to the ayatollahs they would reciprocate by reducing their aid to terrorists is not only naive but hopelessly stupid.
Their reaction will be the exact opposite. They would use that billion to accelerate their agenda, and INCREASE their aid to proxys worldwide.
Alfredo says
After decades in the Swamp foggy, Joe is still so ignorant of even the fundamentals of Islamic ideology, which is beyond naive. It is downright stupid.
The blokes in charge of the Biden foreign policy, are either a bunch of bumbling incompetents or outright complicit in the deliberate weakening of the United States geopolitical position.
To even entertain the notion that by releasing a cool Billion to the ayatollahs they would reciprocate by reducing their aid to terrorists is not only naive but hopelessly stupid.
Their reaction will be the exact opposite. They would use that billion to accelerate their agenda and INCREASE their aid to proxies worldwide.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is just mindlessly just continuing in the same old terribly flawed fool and terrible policies of his former boss and chief, Obama, favoring that tyrannical cruel and hostile Islamic regime of Iran.
OLD GUY says
Why in the HELL would America give a BILLION of our TAX dollars to Iran? Who’s going to get the kick backs after they leave office? Or which of our military corporations is getting a big contract to build weapons for Iran to use against out service men and women? NO BODY in their right mind gives that kind of money away. If our government wants to give money away there are a lot of small towns in America who could use it to improve water and sewer systems, road repairs, sidewalks, parks and recreation fire and police departments. Wouldn’t that make more sense than sending this cash to a country that hates us and wants to kill us.
Look at the trillions we have already poured down the drain in the Middle East. The only ones benefiting from this waste of TAX DOLLARS is a small group of greedy bastards that are selling vary high priced weapons and munitions to the governments around the world.
War is vary profitable for a few people.