Sunday at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was loudly booed while giving a speech about the Obama administration’s attempt to get a deal on nuclear weapons with Iran. Over the jeers of the crowd
The idiom “selling one a bill of goods” conveys the message a buyer is being deceived—i.e., he is not getting that for which he thought he had bargained. Over the past several weeks, we have witnessed the occurrence of three events where this idiom appropriately can be applied.
Over the past 18 months, Obama has paid Iran $700 million a month to come to the negotiations table and string along the West with promises of dismantling their nuclear program. This may sound like an exaggeration – it’s not. In addition to paying them what will amount to $12 billion in unfrozen assets by the end of June, Obama has ceded half of the Middle East to the Iranian hegemony, including control of critical international waterways, as well as the security of Israel.
Tuesday in Orlando at the Florida Economic Growth Summit, former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) said President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran would “guarantee” they get a nuclear bomb which will start a Middle East nuclear arms race. Perry said,
Barry Navidi—who produced the Al Pacino vehicles, “The Merchant of Venice,” “Salome,” and “Wild Salome,” and is touring with Pacino’s current one-man show—spoke with Variety in Tehran during the International Urban Cities Film Festival. He asserted his excitement about the rapprochement between the Obama administration and Iran because it will encourage fimmaking in Iran.
A top adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei said Sunday that military sites will be off limits to inspections because the IAEA has been infiltrated by the CIA.
US News & World Report Chairman Mort Zuckerman argued President Obama’s “attempt to develop a relationship with Iran,” “has destroyed our entire relationship with all of our friends in that region” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Asked about President Obama’s legacy,
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today his negotiating partners in the P5+1 should avoid “making excessive demands” on Iran. Zarif was speaking of an unresolved issue in the ongoing nuclear negotiations: giving inspectors access to Iran’s military sites.
France, one the parties to the multi-lateral nuclear deal with Iran, said Wednesday that it will not sign a deal which does not give the IAEA access to inspect Iranian military sites.
The long, ugly farce of President Obama’s “nuclear deal” with Iran drags on, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei essentially voided the entire agreement on Wednesday, declaring Iran would not give international inspectors access to its nuclear sites or nuclear scientists. “A
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gave a genial interview to Der Spiegel this week, with the German magazine describing him as “relaxed and cheerful” throughout. In his relaxed and cheerful way, Zarif continued Iran’s practice of making the Obama administration look foolish, rewriting the so-called “nuclear deal” on the fly and scoffing at the administration’s talking points.
Monday on PBS’s “Charlie Rose Show,” former defense secretary Robert Gates said he is “worried” his former boss President Barack Obama wants the nuclear deal with Iran too much. Gates said,”I think anybody who was ever engaged in negotiation knows
Huffington Post Media Group Global Editorial Director and MSNBC analyst Howard Fineman stated that the Obama administration didn’t fully realize or appreciate the amount of distrust towards Iran by Gulf Arab countries like Saudi Arabia on Thursday’s broadcast of “The
In a clip translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), last week on Iranian TV, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Deputy Commander Hossein Salami said, “We welcome war with the Americans.” Salami said, “If they are relying on their aircraft
Former Ambassador and Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Nicholas Burns argued that Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s “snub” of a US summit was “a defeat for the White House and its foreign policy,” and
Former CIA Director Mike Morell said that Arab Sunni countries “are scared to death of Iran” due to the accurate perception that they want to dominate the region and that Iran wants a nuke, in part, because it’s “a tool
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record With Greta Van Susteren,” senior political columnist and editorial director of National Journal, Ron Fournier said if President Barack Obama is wrong that Iran will live up to its side of any
Monday on Fox New Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Gen. Jack Keane discussed President Barack Obama’s upcoming Camp David summit of Persian Gulf states, which the leaders from four of the six
NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell stated that “there’s no other way to interpret” Saudi Arabia skipping out on a summit of Arab leaders at Camp David other than as a snub to the US
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) criticized members of Congress for not standing up to the president and urged Congress to take more action to block a bad Iran deal on Thursday’s “Your World” on the Fox News Channel. “I want
On a near unanimous vote, the Senate approved a bill Thursday to the require that Congress review any final nuclear deal with Iran.
Major General Hassan Firouzabadi has reportedly written an open letter warning Iranian negotiators not to give Western nations access to Iran’s military sites.
Sen. Tom Cotton Zarif takes on Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, challenging him to come to Washington, D.C. to “debate Iran’s record of tyranny, treachery, & terror” and mocking Zarif’s “cowardly character,” as exhibited by how he “hid in US during Iran-Iraq war while peasants & kids were marched to die.”
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said President Barack Obama was “ludicrous” for thinking if he gets a nuclear deal with Iran there will be a “new U.S.-Iranian alliance.” When asked about the Saudis’ fighting the Iranian
A Fox News poll released Wednesday afternoon finds that a majority of registered voters feel President Obama has been too soft on Iran in negotiations toward a nuclear agreement.
A spokesman for Iran’s nuclear agency has once again rejected calls to grant IAEA access to military sites, continuing a war of words on the issue that began Sunday.
SANTA ANA, California — An indictment hearing was held at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Santa Ana on Monday for Khosrow Afghahi, one of the five men who have been accused by the U.S. of “allegedly circumventing U.S. sanctions and illegally exporting controlled microelectronics to Iran.” The highly-sensitive technology is used for military-grade systems like surface-to-air and cruise missiles.
White House Communications Director Jen Psaki stated that Iran possibly supplying weapons to the Houthis in Yemen has not made the administration re-consider its approach toward nuclear negotiations with Iran on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day.” Psaki was asked
When negotiators in Lausanne, Switzerland announced the framework of a nuclear agreement with Iran earlier this month, Vox’s Max Fisher proclaimed it an “astonishingly good” deal. Less than three weeks later, Fisher is now highlighting the case against the deal.
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence argued that Iran’s “death to America” chants could be read “in a couple of ways” on Sunday’s “Weekends with Alex Witt” on MSNBC. When asked about
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday he wants to press forward for a final nuclear deal with the P5+1 nations but added that the West needs the deal more than Iran does. “We do not want to speak about not
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina warned the New Hampshire Republican Leadership Summit that “Hillary Clinton must not be president.”
US News & World Report Chairman Mort Zuckerman predicted “the Iran deal is going to have its own natural death” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” After columnist Pat Buchanan predicted Hillary Clinton will become “very strongly pro-Israel, and she will get
Former Secretary of State James Baker weighed in on the Iran deal Thursday night. In a piece published by the Wall Street Journal, Baker concludes the deal is weak and badly in need of work.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama agreed to legislation that will allow Congress to vote on a nuclear deal with Iran because the bill will not prevent the president from delivering a final agreement even if lawmakers disapprove of it, argued Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).
Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) said that “many of us” in Congress “still have great concerns” about inspections and verification in the Iran nuclear framework on Wednesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. “One very critical component
In a sign of growing tensions, Iran’s Parliament has released a “fact sheet” which calls for substantial revisions to the framework agreement it reached with the P5+1 countries.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said Secretary of State John Kerry was on Capital Hill lobbying against Congress getting the final word on any nuclear program deal with Iran until mid afternoon when
On Monday, German novelist, Nobel Prize winner, and former Waffen-SS Nazi Günter Grass died in Lubeck, Germany, at the age of 87. The press mourned his passing.
Tuesday at the GOP leadership press conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Congress “absolutely” needs to weigh in on the conditions of a nuclear deal with Iran to balance the Obama administration’s attempt to get a “deal at any
