Obama’s last-ditch effort to salvage Iran deal
Resorting to an all-too-familiar practice that he has utilized during his eight years in office, Obama is desperately looking to exercise his executive authority to push the Iran Deal through – an agreement that many critics argue is nothing more than Obama letting the Islamic Republic have its way with the United States – and the world – and get away with it.
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It is contended that the Obama administration’s refusal to punish Iran economically for its rogue nuclear program – and its involvement in Islamic terrorism – is ultimately empowering the jihadist regime to ramp up its nuclear weapons program poised to wreak havoc on the world.
“The deal sets a timetable for the lifting of sanctions on U.S. companies being barred from doing business in Iran, with some exemptions,” Townhall reports. “Boeing, for instance, was exempted from the ban at the start and announced a $25 billion sale to Iran in June, but the GOP-controlled Congress passed legislation to block banks from financing it.”
Similar to Obama’s controversial strategy employed this year that opened up American trade and business ventures with communist Cuba, the president is doing all he can to secure economic ties that cannot be broken between the United States and Iran so that his successor cannot break them once in office.
“The Obama administration may make more companies exempt from sanctions – which remain in place until 2023 – in an effort to bolster economic ties between the two countries and make it more difficult for the Trump administration to ‘tear up’ the agreement – something president-elect Trump has promised to do,” Townhall’s Jason Hopkins explained. “The White House is considering issuing more licenses to allow U.S. businesses to conduct business in Iran.”
Obama’s pro-Islamic handling of the deal – that many argue puts the U.S. and its ally, Israel, in great danger – is under intense scrutiny by many in the Republican Party who insist that the Iran Deal should be done away with altogether.
“[Republican critics] argue the agreement is assisting a radical regime and that money from the deal is being funneled to terrorist organizations,” Hopkins points out. “On top of that, they point to the fact that the Iranian government has blatantly broken numerous tenets of the agreement.”
More warning signs
In the latest development, the United Nations recently alerted the international community that Iran now possesses 100 more kilograms of heavy water – a key component for building many nuclear reactors – than it had agreed upon in the so-called deal.
U.S. State Department Spokesman John Kirby made an attempt to dodge the issue that Obama’s Iran Deal has abysmally failed by insisting on Monday that the U.N.’s discovery of Iran stockpiling more heavy water than what is permitted is a good thing. Kirby contends that Iran’s failure to abide by the rules and continue building up its nuclear arsenal is by no means an indication of the nation’s lack of goodwill. Instead, he contended that Iran’s detected non-compliance is a step in the right direction because it shows that Iran’s non-compliance is easily identified.
“The system worked in the sense that we found it and they’re addressing it,” asserted Kirby, who stressed that catching Iran breaking its agreement is testimony that the deal is actually working.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, along with other Republican leaders, sent a letter to Obama on Tuesday in an attempt to bring more publicity to the president’s actions in the Iran matter. The letter also called the commander-in-chief to put an immediate end to the lifting of sanctions on Iran curb its nuclear program.
“I just sent a letter with @GOPLeader & @RepEdRoyce to President Obama asking him to halt any plans for new concessions to #Iran,” Ryan tweeted on Tuesday.
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