Yes! Only a Moslem in the White House basement—a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama—could have put together an agreement understanding with Iran that is this horrendous, dangerous, and outright suicidal.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The deal is sooo bad that The Regime does not want it to be reviewed by the Senate, where even communists/globalists, such as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, and Richard Blumenthal, have expressed great reservations.
The [Regime thinks] that by sleight of word, calling this agreement a mere “understanding” rather than an “agreement,” they won’t have to submit it to the Senate for its approval.
Robert Spencer wrote about this HERE—and more on this mini deal below that gives Iran potentially tens of billions of dollars in exchange for the same kind of promises the Islamic Republic broke previously:
[Obiden Regime] won’t acknowledge Iran deal explicitly to skirt Congress—analysis, by Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2023. Excerpts below:
In the Harry Potter books, characters call the villain ‘He Who Must Not Be Named,’ for fear that saying ‘Voldemort’ will conjure up the evil villain.
The [Regime] won’t say ‘Iran Deal,’ apparently because it fears Congress. It is negotiating ‘the deal that must not be named.’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein have called it a ‘small agreement,’ a ‘mini-deal’ and a ‘memorandum of understanding,’ but the State Department is doing the rhetorical equivalent of whistling and saying ‘nothing to see here.’
The reason for this is the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA), which requires the US president to bring any agreement relating to Tehran’s nuclear program to Congress for a 30-day review period.
Legally, the president may enter into an executive agreement without approval from Congress, so in that sense, INARA-based congressional review can’t stop Joe Biden from doing what he wants.
The mini deal is being talked about as if it were a mere “understanding” between the U.S. and Iran—an “executive agreement” that does not require Congressional approval.
Will members of Congress then be up in arms over this sleight of word, and demand that the Iran deal—or “Iran understanding”—be subject to their approval? Judging by the remarks of many members so far, including powerful communists/globalists, that approval will not be forthcoming. Some details below:
A lesser-known element of INARA is what former State Department adviser on Iran, Gabriel Noronha, has called ‘legislative snapback.’ The law states that ‘if the President does not submit such 90-day compliance certification’ – that Iran is in compliance with the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) – ‘or has determined that Iran has materially breached an agreement and not cured it, legislation reinstating statutory sanctions against Iran introduced within 60 calendar days of such event shall be entitled to expedited consideration.’
In other words, if Iran is violating the JCPOA—which it has been, for years—then Congress can fast-track a bill to reinstate sanctions.
There is a question of whether that is relevant after the US left the JCPOA in 2018, but there’s a fair chance someone in Congress will test it.
At a recent J Street event, former Obama administration lawyer Tess Bridgeman, who worked on JCPOA, essentially called to keep the details of the new Iran agreement secret.
Why does Bridgeman want to keep the details of the Iran “understanding” secret?
Even she realizes the Devil is in the details:
– Giving Iran a great deal of what it wants—money—with nothing tangible given in exchange by Iran save for releasing from prison three Iranian-Americans.
– The rest of what Iran is giving are mere promises about limiting the enrichment of uranium, precisely the same kind of promises Iran made under the JCPOA in 2015, and then proceeded to break.
Why should we expect Iran to keep its promises about uranium enrichment this time, especially since it already has far more uranium enriched at levels tantalizingly close to what would be needed to make a bomb, than it did in 2015?
This is not a deal; this is a capitulation—a moslem Kenyan capitulation. Wiser would be to proceed with an arrest and an indictment for treason.
The problem is this:
– Once the Americans lift sanctions, and allow Iran to take delivery of tens of billions of dollars, beginning with ten billion dollars that Iraq will now pay Iran for oil and gas it had received, and seven billion dollars that will be handed over by South Korea to pay for oil received in the past, that money can’t be taken back.
– Iran will likely wait until it has received at least $50 billion previously owed to it that had been frozen, but now will be unfrozen under this “understanding,” before once again enriching uranium to 84% or even, to 90%.
Even those who voted for JCPOA in 2015 have been mugged by reality. Some have seen how Iran managed to consistently deceive the IAEA inspectors; others have been infuriated by how Iran continues to back such terror groups as Hamas and Hezbollah; still others, such as Senator Tim Kaine (C/G-VA), have been most repulsed by Iran’s suppression of its own people.
None of these people would likely approve of this Regime mini deal were it to come before them, which is why The Regime is going to treat that deal not as a treaty, but as an executive order, needing no congressional approval. And perhaps they will get away with it, unless there is an explosion of rage at this calculated circumvention of Congress’ authority.
