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AMBASSADOR BOLTON: AYATOLLAHS NOT GIVING UP QUEST FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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by ROBERT WILDE4 Apr 2015127


Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton stated on Saturday that the first job of the President of the United States is to protect the people of this nation.
Bolton contends that it is “becoming increasingly obvious that national security is a dominant issue” in the upcoming 2016 elections. The U.S. facing more and more national security threats has made the former ambassador open to a presidential run.

The frequent Fox News national security contributor shared his world view on Breitbart News Saturday airing on Sirius XM Patriot radio channel 125 with host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow.

Bolton accused the Obama administration of being “desperate” to make a nuclear weapons deal with Iran. “Even if the final deal looks like the deal that we discussed on Thursday in Switzerland, it will be a major triumph for Iran,” he asserted.

Bolton said that Iran will get what it wants, which is relief from international sanctions, without giving up much and for what they do concede will be “temporary, minor, easily reversible concessions on their nuclear weapons program.”

The sixty-six-year-old Yale Law School graduate explained that the U.S/Iranian Nuclear agreement crafted by Kerry and Obama will allow Iran to enrich uranium to any level. This helps them meet their goal, which is to have enough uranium, ultimately enriched to weapons grade levels, to make bombs.

The details of the deal, which are still being negotiated, will let Iran “keep all of their enrichment capabilities and allow them to continue to do research and development on more sophisticated enrichment techniques,” Bolton pointed out. “They are not restricted at all in their weaponization activities. They are not restricted at all in their ballistic missile programs.”

Moreover, Obama’s objective is to divert attention from these enormous concessions and focus on non-significant technical details. Obama likes to bring up that there will be U.N. inspectors looking on, reassuring the world that Iran is compliant.

But, Bolton points out, “UN Inspectors have never found anything on their own other than what we’ve given them or others have given them in the form of intelligence. If we have learned anything in the past fifteen years, it is to be a little bit humble, even about our own intelligence capabilities.”

The ambassador said Obama and Kerry argue that they have put sufficient protections in place that Iran will be unable to achieve nuclear capabilities in less than a year, giving us plenty of time to react if they violate their agreements. Bolton said that their premise “rests on the assumption that we already know everything that Iran is already doing, which is a false assumption. It rests on the further assumption that we will be able to detect everything they do over the next ten years, which is also false.”

From Iran’s point of view, the ambassador stated, they simply have had “some impediments put in their way. But nothing that they haven’t been able to hide from the IAEA in the past. They have been lying about their nuclear weapons program for twenty five years.” Bolton believes that the pattern of lying will continue and that “The Ayatollahs are not going to give up their quest for nuclear weapons. It has more to do with dominance in the region, the long standing struggle within Islam, and to make themselves a power on the world stage.”

Marlow asked ambassador Bolton if he agreed with the Wall Street Journal that Obama wants to make a deal with Iran at any cost. He responded that he did, because Obama sees Israel and the USA as part of the problem. Bolton explained that Obama believes that if he could convince the Ayatollahs that “America and the West have no hostile intention toward the regime,” Iran would stop their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

“This the same view and strategy of appeasement that has motivated Western negotiators in too many crisis situations in years and decades gone by. It hasn’t worked before, and it’s not gonna work here,” the American Enterprise Institute scholar asserted.

Breitbart’s EIC followed up by asking Ambassador Bolton, “What is Iran’s record in keeping their accords?”

Bolton replied, “Iran has violated every agreement they have made, tracked back to thirty-five years ago, when they agreed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty, when they said they would not seek to become a nuclear weapon state. Their track record is one of complicity. They have lied to the IAEA, they have concealed facilities from the IAEA like the famous Fordow facility. It makes you wonder what other facilities exist that we haven’t found yet.”

Source: John Bolton: Ayatollah Not Giving Up Nuclear Weapons Quest
 
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SEN. BOB CORKER PUSHES CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF IRAN DEAL ON FOX NEWS

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by ALEX SWOYER5 Apr 2015Washington, DC160


Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), appeared on Fox News Sunday saying discrepancies on the political framework agreement between the U.S and Iran reveal the necessity for congressional review of any final deal.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to vote April 14 on Corker’s “Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015.”

The legislation would require President Obama to submit the final deal to Congress before lifting any sanctions on Iran.

“As you just reported in Iran, they’re reporting sort of the mirror image opposite of what’s being reported here,” Corker said.

“I know there are a lot of details that will be worked out over the next several months…and that’s why it’s so important that Congress play its rightful role in approving this prior to the congressionally-mandated sanctions that we put in place [being] alleviated.”

Corker says his legislation imposing congressional review would not disrupt any of the remaining negotiations.

Source: Sen. Bob Corker Pushes Congressional Review Of Iran Deal On Fox News - Breitbart

IRAN: U.S. LYING ABOUT NUCLEAR DEAL, ‘FACT SHEETS’ ON NEGOTIATIONS ARE ‘SPIN’


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by JORDAN SCHACHTEL2 Apr 2015334




Mere minutes after the U.S. released a fact sheet that purportedly lays out what the basic framework agreed upon by the Iranian regime and P5+1 world powers entailed, Iranian officials accused the United States of misleading the public about its agreement.
“The solutions are good for all, as they stand. There is no need to spin using ‘fact sheets’ so early on,” tweeted Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif.

In two following Tweets, Zarif insisted that the U.S. and EU will remove all economic and financial sanctions on Iran immediately, contrary to what the U.S.-produced fact sheet states.





Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that the agreement allowed for Iran to continue enriching uranium, and none of its facilities would be shut down.

“In the framework of the agreement, none of Iran’s nuclear facilities as well as the previous activities will be stopped, shut down or suspended and Iran’s nuclear activities in all its nuclear facilities including Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan and Arak will continue,” said the Iranian media report.

Iranian media also reported that all of the UN Security Council, United States, and European Union sanctions against the regime will be lifted immediately, once the Joint Plan of Action has been implemented.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has not commented on the agreement that required his authorization for Iran’s negotiating team to sign off on the accord. As dictator of Iran, Khamenei doesn’t answer to anybody, and has no checks on his power, so it remains unclear whether he will weigh in on the nuclear framework.

Source: Iran: U.S. Lying About Nuclear Deal, ‘Fact Sheets’ on Negotiations Are 'Spin’ - Breitbart

NETANYAHU: IRAN NUKE DEAL WILL SPARK MIDDLE EAST ARMS RACE


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by PAM KEY5 Apr 201519


Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said if the framework of President Barack Obama’s deal with Iran stays as is, it will spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East starting with Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia already engaged in battle in Yemen against the Shia Iran-backed Houthi militants.

Netanyahu said, “Not a single centrifuge is destroyed. Not a single nuclear facility is shut down including the underground facilities that they built illicitly. Thousands of centrifuges will keep spinning enriching uranium. That’s a bad deal. Secondly, Iran is going to have sanctions lifted including crippling sanctions pretty much up front. That’s going to have billions and billions of dollars flow into the Iranian coiffures. Not for schools or roads, but to pump up Iran’s terror machine throughout the world. It’s a military machine that’s engaged throughout the world. So I think that’s very bad. Third, the restrictions that are placed on Iran are only temporary. After a few years Iran will have unlimited capacity to build unlimited nuclear infrastructure. That’s very bad. That’s what’s in the deal. Now here’s what’s not in the deal. The ending of their ICBMs, that’s not in the deal. Those missiles are only used for you. They’re not used for us. They have missiles that can reach us and are geared for nuclear weapons. Secondly, no one is asking Iran at all in this deal to stop its aggression in the region and its calls to annihilate Israel.”

“If a country that vows to annihilate us and is working every day with conventional means and unconventional means to achieve that end, if that country has a deal that paves its way to nuclear weapons, many nuclear weapons, it endangers our survival. I’ll tell you what else will happen. I think it will also spark an arms race with the Sunni states because they understand exactly what I just said,” he added.

Source: Netanyahu: Iran Nuke Deal Will Spark Middle East Arms Race - Breitbart

WORLD VIEW: TEXTS OF IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL DIFFER IN ENGLISH AND FARSI VERSIONS


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by JOHN J. XENAKIS5 Apr 2015120



This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

  • ISIS pushes closer to Damascus through Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp
  • Texts of Iran nuclear deal differ in English and Farsi versions
  • Kenya’s president: terrorists are ‘deeply embedded’ in Kenya
ISIS pushes closer to Damascus through Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp
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Yarmouk residents queue up to receive humanitarian aid (Reuters)


Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) militias have taken control of a southern district in Damascus, Syria, and are just a few kilometers from the military headquarters of the regime of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad. Al-Assad’s army has suffered several recent defeats, especially the major military defeat in Idlib, and so it appears that ISIS may present a real military challenge to the regime in its seat of power. Reports indicate that ISIS is also receiving help from the al-Qaeda linked Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusra Front), a group with which it often has battles in other places and times.

ISIS’s advance into Damascus is through the Yarmouk refugee camp, home to about 18,000 Palestinian refugees. The camp has been under siege from al-Assad’s army since 2011, since al-Assad feared that the Palestinian refugees would join the fight against him. In the last couple of years, the Free Syrian Army and al-Qaeda linked Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusra Front) have entered Yarmouk and fought each other, making Yarmouk increasingly dangerous for the civilians living there. Now the invasion of ISIS has turned Yarmouk into a humanitarian disaster. Aid groups are unable to enter Yarmouk, with the result that the civilians have no food and water, no electricity. Anyone who leaves his home risks getting shot and killed by snipers on the rooftops.

Other reports indicate that al-Assad’s forces are trying to fight ISIS by means of “violent shelling by the regime forces using tank shells and ground-to-ground missiles,” weapons that are more likely to kill civilians than ISIS.

According to Hanan Ashrawi, international Palestinian activist and executive of the Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO) government, on Saturday:

Yarmouk is a test, a challenge for the international community. We must not fail. The credibility of the international system itself is at stake.

The current situation in the al-Yarmouk refugee camp is a heartbreaking catastrophe.

Since December 2012, tens of thousands of men, women and children, most of whom are Palestinian refugees, have been forced to flee and have had their lives torn apart by war. The 18,000 residents who remain in Yarmouk are in great danger from extremist groups, including ISIS, that are seeking to take full control of the camp.

We call on all members of the international community, particularly the United Nations, European Union and the United States, to safeguard the innocent people of Yarmouk and ensure that all sides commit to a permanent ceasefire.

And yet, with almost the entire Mideast in flames these days, the women and children in Yarmouk have little hope of receiving any international aid quickly. ARA News (Syria) andAP and Jerusalem Post

Texts of Iran nuclear deal differ in English and Farsi versions
Iran’s press has been euphoric and ecstatic over this week’s nuclear agreement between Iran and Western negotiators. Many newspapers are devoting entire editors to the agreement. A typical headline is, “Our nation is on the cusp of a great victory.”

The American mainstream media, who are overwhelmingly Democratic and always support President Obama no matter what he does, have stayed in line by endorsing the deal, calling it “historic” or “a great victory for Obama’s legacy.”

However, the more conservative New York Post hired a Farsi expert to compare the Farsi version of the agreement, published by Iran, versus the English version of the agreement, published by the White House, and found some significant differences. Indeed, it is clear from the two text versions that the claims of complete agreement between Iran and the West are simply not true.

  • The Iranian text uses different verb forms when describing Western and Iranian commitments. For example, the Iranian commitment, “The nuclear facilities at Fordow shall be developed into a center for nuclear research and advanced Physics” is written in the passive voice without specifying any time frame. But the Persian text uses a very aggressive active verb mood for Western commitments: “The United Nations shall abrogate its previous resolutions while the United States and the European Union will immediately lift sanctions [imposed on] financial, banking, insurance, investment and all services related to oil, gas, petrochemicals and car industry.”
  • In some cases, the two texts directly contradict each other. The American statement claims that Iran has agreed not to use advanced centrifuges, each of which could do the work of 10 old ones. The Iranian text, however, says that “on the basis of solutions found, work on advanced centrifuges shall continue on the basis of a 10-year plan.”
To use the old joke, this is actually déjà vu all over again. There was an interim nuclear agreement that Iran signed with the West in November 2013 that had similar problems. The full text of that agreement has never been published. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that, under the agreement, Iran had no right to enrich uranium, while Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gloated that Iran had preserved its right to enrich uranium. The White House published a “summary,” but Iran completely rejected the White House summary as “not true.” Then, in January 2014, Iran disclosed that there was a secret side agreement to the nuclear agreement. The White House first confirmed this, saying that the side agreement would be made public, and then denied that there was a secret side agreement.

So it appears that we are starting off with the same kinds of lies and deceptions that were part of the 2013 interim agreement.

There is another thing bothering me. During his “mission accomplished” televised victory press conference earlier this week after the deal was announced, President Obama referred to a fatwa supposedly issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei that Iran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful, and that forbids the development of nuclear weapons. The fatwa supposedly says, “the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons.”

The problem is that nobody has ever seen this fatwa, because it does not exist, according to a number of Iranian and Arab writers have researched the issue. “18-Mar-14 World View — Does Iran’s anti-nuclear fatwa really exist, as claimed?”

So the question is: Why did Obama refer to this nonexistent fatwa? Is he simply lying because he can always get away with lying? Does he think the reporters in the mainstream media are so stupid that they won’t even check it out? Well, if that’s what Obama thinks, then Obama is probably right.

At any rate, it is pretty clear that President Obama is willing to say and do anything to get the final deal with Iran ratified by the July 1 deadline. We’ll see what he’s willing to do as the weeks go by. BBC and New York Post and Memri (17-Mar-2014) and Memri (4-Oct-2013)


Source: World View: Texts of Iran Nuclear Deal Differ in English and Farsi Versions - Breitbart

WAPO ON IRANIAN LOBBY-LINKED NSC DIRECTOR: NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

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by JORDAN SCHACHTEL2 Apr 201591


The Washington Post has taken to investigating a Breitbart report that established President Obama’s National Security Director for Iran, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, was previously an employee at the alleged pro-Iranian regime lobbying group NIAC (National Iranian American Council).
Nowrouzzadeh was listed in a White House brief as being one of a select group of officials who took part in a Tuesday night meeting with President Obama on the ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations. It is believed that this was the first time the White House revealed her position as National Security Council Director for Iran.

White House Conference Call/ March 31, 2015

The Washington Post spoke with a White House “senior administration official,” who told the D.C. paper that the 31-year-old had worked for the Defense Department and the State Department before moving to the National Security Council.

It remains unclear what qualifies the young National Security Council Director for such an esteemed position, but for the fact that she supposedly has received four awards during her short stint in government service. The Post reports: “She’s received awards from Defense, State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the FBI, we were told.”

“She interned at NIAC for about a year while she was in college, the official said, noting that there are multiple Iran directors at the NSC,” the report adds.

Breitbart News has found evidence to contradict the narrative pushed by the “senior administration official” that Nowrouzzadeh’s sole capacity at NIAC was that of an intern. In a 2004 document uncovered by Breitbart News, the NSC Iran Director is referred to as a “staff member” of NIAC.

In the spirit of transparency, Breitbart News has asked the White House to reveal the names of the other purported Iran directors at the National Security Council.

“It didn’t take long for conservative media outlets and Israeli press to notice that she once was at the National Iranian American Council, which those media have for years argued was a lobbying group for the Iranian government,” writes the Post’s Al Kamen.

What Kamen does not mention is that many more groups and individuals other than “conservative media outlets” and “Israeli press” worry the NIAC is a shill for the Ayatollah’s regime.

For example, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who has established a close relationshipwith President Obama, has referred to NIAC president Trita Parsi as someone who “does a lot of leg-work for the Iranian regime.”

In a Bloomberg article this week, reporter Eli Lake wrote about the close connections between Javad Zarif, who serves as the regime’s foreign minister, and Parsi. Internal documents, unveiled as a result of the National Iranian American Council’s failed defamation lawsuit against an investigative journalist, revealed that Parsi has had a years-long relationship with Zarif. Lake reported that Zarif and Parsi had teamed up in 2003 in hopes to craft a message (which had no basis in reality) that the U.S. had rejected a peace offer that was made by the Iranian regime.

In a Thursday article on how the media is reporting on the Iran talks, Reuters seemingly referred to NIAC representatives as “Analysts sympathetic to the Iranian government.”

Perhaps even more convincingly, Iranian opposition groups almost unanimously see NIAC as an arm of the regime in Washington, D.C.

NIAC has in the past attempted to shut down discussion by suing its critics. When Voice of America Persian brought on an Iranian dissident journalists who said unfavorable things about the group, NIAC sued the U.S. government-run agency for defamation.

The Washington Post spoke to Parsi in hopes to get an answer from critics who have alleged they work side by side with the regime.

“Just because we don’t want to bomb Iran doesn’t mean we’re in favor of the regime there,” NIAC President Trita Parsi told the Post, implying that opponents of the Iran deal only seek to bomb Tehran.

NIAC’s actions this week have proved to contradict the remarks implied by Parsi. This week, photos have surfaced showing the NIAC founder engaged in amiable conversation with the Ayatollah’s delegation, which included Zarif and the brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.



The pro-Tehran rhetoric espoused by Parsi has become commonplace since the Swedish and Iranian dual citizen became interested in establishing an Iranian-American “advocacy” group in Washington, D.C.

Just last week, Parsi wrote a puff piece on Iran’s dictator, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which positions him as a reformer who is combating the hardliners in his country. In the eyes of Parsi, the man who holds supreme power over the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror, who occasionally yells “Death to America” and is also a proud Holocaust denier, should now be seen as a tolerant, gentle man who is only seeking to protect his country.

Instead of asking hard-hitting questions about the National Security Council Iran Director’s past employment at the alleged pro-Tehran group, the Post took the answers from NIAC and the “senior administration official” at face value, without following up on any of the assertions made by the aforementioned actors.

Source: WaPo on Iranian Lobby-Linked NSC Director: Nothing To See Here! - Breitbart

FEINSTEIN: NETANYAHU NEEDS TO ‘CONTAIN HIMSELF’

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by PAM KEY5 Apr 2015675


Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed to “contain himself” and stop criticizing President Barack Obama’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran.

Feinstein said, “I don’t think it’s helpful for Israel to come out and oppose this one opportunity to change a major dynamic, which is downhill, a downhill dynamic in this part of the world.”

Specifically speaking about the prime minister, Feinstein said, “Well, I think he’s said what he’s had to say, and to be candid with you, this can back backfire on him. I wish that he would contain himself because he has put out no real alternative. In his speech to the Congress, no real alternative. Since then, no real alternative.”

Feinstein: Netanyahu Needs to 'Contain Himself' - Breitbart
 
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IRANIAN YOUTH CELEBRATE NUCLEAR DEAL THROUGH ROSE-COLORED LENSE

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by ADELLE NAZARIAN3 Apr 201527


Immediately after Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarifannounced that all sanctions that were previously imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran would be “terminated,” thousands of Iranians took to the streets to celebrate what they perceived to be a victory for the ages.
Social media was overflowing with images, videos, and tweets, expressing an array of emotions through frozen snapshots that captured the mood of the night. This tweet from Iran shows youth gathering on Chamran Boulevard in Tehran to celebrate the news:





An Associated Press video shows hundreds pouring through the streets of Iran, blasting music in their cars, honking horns, and chanting, “Rouhani motshakereem” (translation: Rouhani, we are grateful). A young man holds up a flag of the Islamic Republic and in his right hand is an image of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani.


Another video shows a group singing, “Zarif duset dareem” (translation: Zarif we love you). A man in the background then shouts, “khasteh nabashee. Mashallah cheh mard!” (translation: we hope you’re not tired. What a man you are!).


Breitbart News spoke with several Iranians living both inside the United States and also in Iran. People have reportedly been chanting, “Negah nakon Zareefeh, shish keshvaro hareefeh” in the streets of Iran, according to the source within the United States. That phrase means “Don’t look at him like he is delicate (or weak). He can take on six countries.” The quote is in reference to Zarif and the six countries are in reference to the group of P5+1 nations at the negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, this past week.

Yet, not everyone was rejoicing over the news that $150 billion in frozen Iranian assets might be released to the nation which is largely recognized as a gross violator of human rights and the greatest sponsor of terrorism in the world:





A man named Shahriar, who was born and raised in California’s Bay Area, but who spent a significant amount of time living in Tehran told Breitbart News, “Today is a sad day for Iranian freedom, but I am consoled by the fact it can make us more determined.”

Then, a starkly contrasting view came from within Iran itself from a man named Ali who told Breitbart News in Farsi that he has been living in fear for his life because he’s spoken out against he oppressive regime for some time now.

“Unfortunately most of Iran’s people aren’t acquainted with politics,” he said regarding the celebrations over the pending nuclear deal. “They need foreign help immediately.” Ali said the people of Iran who are celebrating right now don’t understand the magnitude of what’s about to happen, “because the regime of Iran doesn’t inform them about reality.”

He continued, “As far as I know at least 80% of the people are against the entire regime, not only Khamenei. Only a mad can be in favor of the regime!” He then proceeded to call the Iranians who are celebrating in the streets “stupid.”


Source: Iranian Youth Celebrate Nuclear Deal Through Rose-Colored Lense - Breitbart

FRANCE FM: U.S. SURRENDERED TO IRAN’S LAST MINUTE DEMANDS AT NUKE TALKS

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by JORDAN SCHACHTEL3 Apr 2015Washington, D.C.2786


The French delegation in Switzerland felt the outline for a nuclear deal with Iran was “not solid enough,” and wanted to improve upon the deal before signing off on the accord, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told Europe 1 radio on Friday.
However, the Iranian delegation threatened at the last minute to leave the talks entirely, which persuaded the American delegation to capitulate to the demands of the Ayatollah’s regime, Fabius revealed. The French Foreign Minister said he wanted a strong, comprehensive deal that dissuades “other countries in the Gulf such as Saudi Arabia from embarking on nuclear proliferation.”

Fabius’s remarks add evidence to Friday’s Wall Street Journal report that the delegation led by Secretary of State John Kerry continually conceded to the demand’s of the Iranian regime throughout the course of the talks. What started in September of 2013 as a chance to dismantle a vast swath of Iran’s nuclear program, turned into America making major concessions as the agreement was finalized, the Wall Street Journal explained.

Iranian negotiators said that they would not dismantle any nuclear sites, nor would they destroy their centrifuges, and they certainly would not shut down their heavy-water reactor and underground sites, senior U.S. officials said of Iran’s positioning in the talks. “It’s our moon shot,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reportedly said, meaning to argue that it is a point of national dignity to keep the nuclear-weapons sites running, akin to America’s lunar mission.

American officials took the Iranian delegation’s motives at face-value. A senior U.S. official revealed that the U.S. delegation immediately gave up their leverage the moment they got to the negotiating table. “As soon as we got into the negotiations with them, we understood that any final deal was going to involve some domestic enrich capability,” said the official.

France FM: U.S. Surrendered to Iran’s Last Minute Demands at Nuke Talks - Breitbart
 
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