To Iran.
The so-called “deal” with Iran is over. Ring the bell. Iran wins.
From a source much more reliable than media in the states, the UKDailyMail.com:
‘Iran have been given a licence to kill’: Netanyahu blasts ‘historic mistake’ of agreeing Tehran nuclear deal as Israeli ministers condemn the ‘surrender by the West to the axis of evil’
by Simon Tomlinson
- Major powers agree historic accord after a decade of on-off negotiations
- Lead negotiator John Kerry says U.S. got ‘the good deal that we sought’
- United States, European Union and the UN agree to lift sanctions on Iran
- Tehran accepts long-term curbs on its nuclear programme that the West has suspected was aimed at creating an atomic bomb
- Israel reacts angrily to deal and vows to stop the agreement being ratified
- Global oil prices plunge over possibility Iranian supply will return to market
The European Union called it a ‘sign of hope for the entire world’, while President Barack Obama insisted the deal meant ‘every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off.’
Israel today launched a blistering attack on Western powers for agreeing to a controversial atomic deal with Iran, warning that it gave Tehran ‘a sure path to nuclear weapons’.
Under the accord, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations will be lifted in return for Iran agreeing to long-term curbs on a nuclear programme that the West has suspected was aimed at creating an atomic bomb.
What? Iran doesn’t want to create an atomic weapon? No, of course not. It simply wants nuclear energy to power its country as an alternate energy source because, after all, the oil is running out beneath Iran’s feet.
Right?
But this was angrily rejected by Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branding the deal ‘a bad mistake of historic proportions’.
He said: ‘Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars, which will enable it to continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region and in the world.
‘Iran is going to receive a sure path to nuclear weapons.’
Miri Regev, a former military spokeswoman who serves as Israel’s culture and sports minister, said it gave Iran a ‘licence to kill’, adding that it was ‘bad for the free world (and) bad for humanity.’
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely called the deal ‘a historic surrender by the West to the axis of evil headed by Iran.’
Wait. Is the Daily Mail saying that the United States, by way of Barack Hussein Obama and John Forbes Kerry (who would name their child after a magazine?) didn’t actually acquire the finest deal available with Iran?
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who spent the last 19 days leading the talks in Vienna, hailed the accord as ‘the good deal that we sought’.
Who will this deal truly benefit? This is called a clue:
‘Celebrating too early can send a bad signal to the enemy,’ Iranian conservative lawmaker Alireza Zakani was quoted as saying in parliament by Fars News agency.
He noted that Iran’s National Security Council would also review the deal ‘and if they think it is against our national interests, we will not have a deal’, he said.
‘The Islamic Republic will not sign a bad deal.’
One thing you can clearly state about Iran: it refuses to act in ways against its own best interests, unlike the United States.
What were points of the deal?
Iran’s IRNA news agency said billions of dollars in frozen funds would be released under the deal, and sanctions on its central bank, national oil company, shipping and airlines would now be lifted.
Iran retains right to conduct research into enriching uranium for 10 years, without stockpiling it
Iran agreed to the continuation of a UN arms embargo on the country for up to five more years, though it could end earlier if the International Atomic Energy Agency definitively clears Iran of any current work on nuclear weapons.
A similar condition was put on U.N. restrictions on the transfer of ballistic missile technology to Tehran, which could last for up to eight more years, according to diplomats.
Iranian leaders insisted the embargo had to end as their forces combat regional scourges such as the Islamic State.And they got some support from China and particularly Russia, which wants to expand military cooperation and arms sales to Tehran, including the long-delayed transfer of S-300 advanced air defense systems – a move long opposed by the United States.
Another significant agreement will allow U.N. inspectors to press for visits to Iranian military sites as part of their monitoring duties, something the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had long vowed to oppose.
However, access isn’t guaranteed and could be delayed, a condition that critics of the deal are sure to seize on as possibly giving Tehran time to cover up any illicit activity.
“Access isn’t guaranteed.” A brilliant spot of negotiational acumen by John Forbes Kerry. Read sentence two below.
IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Tuesday his agency and Iran had signed a ‘roadmap’ to resolve outstanding concerns, hopefully by mid-December.
The economic benefits for Iran are potentially massive.
It stands to receive more than $100 billion in assets frozen overseas, and an end to a European oil embargo and various financial restrictions on Iranian banks.
There were many takes on the issue.
- Iran’s centrifuges never stopped spinning, nor will they;
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said “death to America”; now he loves the deal; why?
- Israel’s Netanyahu calls the deal “a historic mistake“;
- HIC chair says the deal “secures Iran’s pathway to a bomb“;
Bottom line?
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif stands on the balcony of Palais Coburg, the venue for nuclear talks, Austria, July 13, 2015. Iran and six world powers appeared close to a deal on Monday to give Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for limits on its nuclear programme, but Iranian officials said talks could run past their latest midnight deadline and success was not guaranteed. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RTX1K8UH
It appears Iran gets precisely what it wants. When Iran celebrates, you know something is wrong.
And the United States, a gullible dupe again under Obama, gets roughly nothing.
Did you know that Congress purposely forfeited their ability to veto this deal, and that Obama is seeking approval from the United Nations for the agreement?
BZ
P.S.
Sound similar to Obama’s failed trade of five major Taliban leaders (who are once again active in the field) for a traitor named Bowe Bergdahl? That too was a wickedly brilliant deal — for the Taliban.
Iran is going to get the bomb — sooner or later, when the deal sunsets in ten years. Oh, you didn’t know the deal “sunsets”?
Let’s see: Israel is concerned, Saudi Arabia is concerned and Jordan is concerned, to name a few. This will, ladies and gentlemen, spark a Middle Eastern nuclear arms race. Period.
“Death to Israel, death to America.”
This is insanity writ large.
That last cartoon may be harbinger… dammit…
Iran WILL be a nuclear bomb, sooner or later. My money is on the “sooner” aspect.
A nuclear arms race will then commence.
BZ
Israel will now Bomb Iran,,,,and it will be nuclear.
Mr C, two points:
1. I think you may be correct. Israel may just round up some serious jet bombers and make a few sorties. While they can. Before Iran can build up its air force with the BILLIONS of dollars we now unencumbered.
2. I don’t think they’ll go nuclear. Winds can be too fickle and blow clouds of nuclear material right back over Israel. I would submit there would be missiles and smart weapons.
BZ
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