Democrats hailed Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal as a hallmark of his presidency. However, the truth is the agreement did virtually nothing to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
At the very best, it simply delayed Iran.
At worst, it didn’t stop them at all, but still allowed their economy to recover after crippling sanctions were lifted.
But the worst part about the Iran deal is the lengths to which Obama went to make sure it happened.
First, he sanctioned the release of Iranian prisoners, and misled people over the severity of their crimes (they had direct links to terror). Now there’s evidence he may have covered up acts of aggression from Iran.
Obama and his administration didn’t disclose cyber attacks orchestrated by Iran against the United States and Israel.
From the Washington Free Beacon:
The attack took place within days of the deal overcoming opposition in Congress in late September that year. That same week, Iranian officials and negotiators for the United States and other world powers were beginning the process of hashing out a series of agreements allowing Tehran to meet previously determined implementation deadlines.
Critics regard these agreements as “secret side deals” and “loopholes” initially disclosed only to Congress.
Sources familiar with the details of the attack said it sent shockwaves through the State Department and the private-contractor community working on Iran-related issues.
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The Obama administration kept quiet about the cyber-attack and never publicly acknowledged concerns the attack created at State, related agencies, and within the private contractor community that supports their work.
Critics of the nuclear deal said the Obama administration did not publicly disclose the cyber-attack’s impact out of fear it could undermine support right after the pact had overcome political opposition and cleared a critical Congressional hurdle.
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In the week leading up to that deadline, Senate Democrats blocked several attempts to pass a GOP-led resolution to disapprove of the nuclear deal. The resolution of disapproval needed 60 votes to pass but the most it garnered was 58.
President Trump, during his trip to the Middle East in late May, talked tough against Iran and its illicit ballistic missile program but has so far left the nuclear deal in place. A Trump State Department review of the deal is nearing completion, the Free Beacon recently reported, and some senior Trump administration officials are pushing for the public release of the so-called “secret side deals.”
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“They had access to everything in those email accounts,” the source said. “Everyone in the [State Department Iranian Affairs] community was very upset—it was a major problem.”
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Since 2011 Iran has attacked U.S. banks and Israel’s electric grid. In 2012, Iranian hackers brought down Saudi-owned oil company Saudi Aramco, erasing information on nearly 30,000 of the company’s work stations and replacing it with a burning American flag.
Cyber-security experts have long believed that Russia helped Iran quickly build up its cyberweaponry in response to Stuxnet. A team of computer-security experts at TrapX, a Silicon Valley security firm that helps protect top military contractors from hackers, said in April they officially confirmed that Iranians were using a cyber “tool set” developed by Russians.
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The private-contracting community involved in State Department Iran programs—approximately 40 private firms, some of which are based in Washington and others located throughout the United States—were outraged by the infiltration.
“They were saying ‘We’re mad—we’re angry,'” the source recalled. “We all got compromised.”
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Critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the Iran nuclear deal argue that the State Department stayed silent about the hack because acknowledging it could have publicly undermined the pact right after it became official.
“Within hours of the Iran deal being greenlighted, Iran was already conducting cyberattacks against the very State Department that ensured passage of the [nuclear deal],” said Michael Pregent, a senior Middle East analyst at the Hudson Institute. “Acknowledging a cyberattack after the [nuclear deal] was greenlighted would be something that would immediately signal that it is a bad deal—that these are nefarious actors.”
Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Iran’s hacking of State Department personnel at such a critical period is “just one of many of Iran’s malign activities that continued and the State Department essentially ignored while the Obama administration was working out the fine points of the nuclear deal.”
“The Obama administration didn’t acknowledge it publicly out of fear that public outrage could threaten the nuclear deal,” he said.
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The late September time period was particularly important for negotiating critical details of the nuclear deal’s implementation, what critics, including CIA Director Mike Pompeo, have labeled “secret side deals” allowing Iran to evade some restrictions in the nuclear agreement in order to meet its deadline for sanctions relief.
Among other non-public details of the pact, the side agreements involved the controversial exchange of American prisoners held in Iran for $1.7 billion in cash payments.
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“It would be to Iran’s great benefit to know where the U.S. would be” on a number of these issues dealing with the possible military dimensions of the Iran nuclear program, he said. “If they could tell the U.S. was going to punt, they could jerk around the [International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA] a bit.”
“That’s essentially what happened with the IAEA,” he added.
The IAEA is charged with verifying and monitoring Iran’s commitments under the nuclear agreement.
According to Albright, the IAEA ultimately accepted far less access to nuclear sites than it originally wanted. The United States and other world powers also accepted other concessions involving “loopholes” allowing Iran to exceed uranium enrichment and heavy water limits for a certain time period in order for Iran to meet implementation deadlines, he said.
“The IAEA didn’t know much at all and had to write a report [in December 2015] that it was content in knowing so little,” he said.
The Iran deal is a farce from top to bottom. The country is very clearly hostile toward us and Israel, our greatest ally in the region.
The deal also allows Iran to self-police the winding down of their nuclear program with the IAEA monitoring, but as the article mentioned, the IAEA had to accept watered-down access agreements.
North Korea agreed to a similar nuclear pact during Clinton’s presidency, and it clearly did nothing to stop them from acquiring nuclear technology.
There is zero reason the same thing won’t happen with Iran, which could be disastrous for Israel and the United States.
Time to arrest Holder and obama and obama,s administrative.
Correction !! Their arrest, trials and convictions are long overdue, as are the ones for the Congressional members who helped cover it up. Trials for the traitors aiding and abetting the treason are also long overdue and the traitors have been self-identifying with their fighting Trump from the time he entered the race and still are. Please pay attention to these traitors like McCain, Graham, Schumer and other Congressional members as they continue to self identify – BUT also pay attention to the patriots like Newt Gingrich also. They can prove to be more important than the traitors. One you can trust can outweigh 10 or more you can’t trust!
If you really want to know why the Iran Deal took place just follow the money. A significant portion of the money supposedly sent to Iran did not go to Iran. Jetter made the deal. A large percentage went to Obama, Jetter, Kerry, Clinton. This will not be the first time for Clinton. When Bill was President the FBI caught them in a deal with China. Their check was stopped in the Caymans where they are allowed to touch it. Never made the press because he was President. To be more specific he was a Democratic President. If you look closely you will find that it has been slowly released.
“SECRET SIDE DEALS.”… Nothing should be done in secret. Just shows how shady and corrupt they are. I say, expose all of it! Let the chips fall. I’m chopping at the bit for some kind of accountability from the left.
That worthless POS I hope we get to hang him for treason
And then he gave them millions to buy more arms. But nothing will ever be done to him. I’m sick of hearing how traitors get away with it and make millions and millions of dollars. God forbid I do anything unlawful – my butt would go straight to jail. Sick of it.
How much more treasonous seditious communist Muslim loving activities will it take before this Kenyan bastard is arrested
Covering up for Iran was meant to protect the Obama admin’s narrative that the Iran deal was good for America and the west. It is the same mind set that led this administration to abandon Ambassador Stevens and others to their deadly fate – to protect the narrative that the Obama admin had Al Qaeda on the ropes. The Obama admin’s policy created on deception after another to hide it’s foreign policy ineptness.
I have said before and I will say it again……..obama should be tarred and feathered and sent back to his birth place, Kenya, by airplane and dumped from altitude without a parachute.
Are we really dealing with supposed Russian hacking… or was it really the Iranians???? I’ll put my money on the Iranians that made it look like Russian hacking.
Anything’s possible at this point. :o(
For some reason the democrats are out to ruin this Country and are doing a pretty good job of it. In my long life I have never seen such slipshod politics.
The little c v n t, Obama, had nothing to worry about. The leftist propaganda spewing media would have never let the story see the light of day. Only the “alt-right wing” blogs would have reported it, like now, & what are we going to do about it? The leftwing media & politicians have marginalized us to the point where the brain dead masses don’t believe anything we say. They just chew their cud like good little bovines, never realizing they are headed for the slaughterhouse.
They all sold out the American people.
Remember when Rush said ” I hope he fails” —and the libs/press went bananas ???? Well, it seems after 8 yrs. of that miserable POS in the White House —-we find Rush was right about BHO. A worthless pile of dung —-
NOBODY will arrest Obama nor any of his appointees.
As time passes, more and more of all the corruption and misdeeds commited during the Obama administration will continue to surface to re-confirm what most conservatives already had known that he should have been impeached and removed from office mulitiple times for his treasonous behaviour. He will go down as one of the worst President’s to occupy the WhiteHouse since Grover Cleveland days. Not only was he ineligible to serve as President, he isn’t a legal citizen of Hawaii according to his Kenya birth certificate. Main Stream Media covered up and protected him every misstep of his administration, they have shown why they don’t have any creditability with the American public, only those that listen and believe their garbage talk are the liberal losers. God Bless President Trump and God Bless America!!!
One simply can’t appease bullies and terrorists and expert any good to ever come of it. But, a more glaring Question is why this was allowed to happen, and, so little concern about it. And, even now as it becomes known that the agreement only favored Iran, why is there not outrage against Obama and friends by our elected officials, who surely are seeing some of the light; unless they can’t read or comprehend like with Obamacare!!!!! The Democratic Left and Elites are crying for President Trump’s impeachment, but they have certainly got the wrong man and political party. Maybe hoping for a big smoke screen so the rest of us wouldn’t wake up and say, “Treason for Obama and Clinton and company.” The media will be the last to recognize it because they run the smoke screen.
Well you saw yesterday that the Obama admin and his council of traitors are quit vast, when they found 30 Dem Senators in that unauthorized meeting gathered to plot against Trump, us and our Congress. It’s not only Obama, Hillary and Soros anymore, for this meeting goes to show just how deep their invasion has gone into the not only our populist and our government, while much of it is just to take over the country. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3428b811c0750523eca7f5d532224029aa35dd4a79e1a811363bfb13103ec684.jpg
with the 40 billion that barry gave them , Im sure they already have one or two on order from north korea and on the way to the mexican border