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Post by Daniel on Dec 24, 2015 11:28:42 GMT -5
Iranian Nuclear Deal is a Catastrophic Hoax
Roger Aronoff — December 24, 2015
The mainstream media blindly championed the Iranian deal at the expense of reason, celebrating its “signing” and every prospective step for implementation. But the not-so-surprising revelation is that there is, in fact, no Iran deal. There are just a number of political commitments made by each of the so-called P5+1 countries, in the hope that Iran will somehow reform itself.
Iran, on the other hand, seems barely, if at all, committed to the non-agreement. Rather, it is poised to receive international sanctions relief while continuing on its belligerent course.
The Obama administration acknowledged in November that neither America, nor the Iranians, nor the other P5+1 members have actually signed the accord ostensibly designed to stall Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons. Yet a review of Fox News, The New York Times, and other media organizations shows that the mainstream media remain uniformly committed to misleading the public. These reporters must know by now that the deal has not been signed—meaning that there is no deal—yet they continue to pretend that it is.
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Post by txlulu on Dec 26, 2015 14:43:05 GMT -5
Obama wants everyone to think there is a deal to make himself look good.
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Post by Daniel on Jan 12, 2016 19:05:12 GMT -5
Obama’s Middle East Policies Dictated by Phony Iran Deal
Roger Aronoff — January 12, 2016
The Obama administration continues to capitulate to Iran’s demands in order to ensure that an unworkable, unsigned international agreement somehow restrains that regime’s quest for nuclear weapons. The media are also working overtime to make sure that Obama’s White House isn’t embarrassed by its repeated concessions to Iran.
“Hours after circulating a draft of proposed sanctions on Wednesday…the White House did not provide a timetable or even say that they would be put into effect,” reported The New York Times on December 31. In reality, the administration sent multiple messages retracting an earlier Treasury Department statement. The first one, according to The Wall Street Journal on January 2, said that the sanctions announcement would be delayed for “a few hours.” By late that evening the decision had been delayed indefinitely.
The initial administration release contained strong language about holding Iran accountable. “We have consistently made clear that the United States will vigorously press sanctions against Iranian activities outside of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—including those related to Iran’s support for terrorism, regional destabilization, human rights abuses, and ballistic missile program,” stated the Treasury’s acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Adam Szubin, in the retracted release, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
Chris Wallace asked Obama’s chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, on Fox News Sunday on January 10th, if they are “going to punish Iran for violating the ballistic missile testing, or not?” During the testy exchange, McDonough replied, “We will issue those sanctions and those designations at the appropriate time. There’s no question about it.”
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Post by txlulu on Jan 12, 2016 23:27:08 GMT -5
And now they have taken ten of our sailors and two ships hostage and he will do nothing, just go ahead with lifting the sanctions so they can build a bomb
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Post by Daniel on May 9, 2016 8:42:17 GMT -5
An Epiphany on the Road to Tehran
By Clarice Feldman
May 8, 2016
The internet was abuzz following a story by David Samuels on the jerk who admitted he manipulated the truth to get the president’s absurd deal with Iran accepted (accepted, that is, by the Democrats in Congress who blocked a Republican resolution to reject it). In case you missed it I’ll provide a quick summary of the salient parts, but that shouldn’t be the end of the story: the press having allowed itself to be flimflammed into being mere White House megaphones needs to redeem itself, should it care to win back even the tiniest shred of credibility. It probably won’t, but I have a suggestion where to begin untangling the web of those in the media and foundation world who were played and, in turn, played their fellow citizens.
A. The David Samuels’ Report.
In the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Samuels details how Ben Rhodes, a script writer, author of the Beloit Journal fiction piece titled “The Goldfish Smiles, You Smile Back,” and brother of CBS president David Rhodes, a man with zero foreign policy experience, shaped and promoted the president’s foreign policy narratives. Samuels observes: “His lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations -- like military or diplomatic service, or even a master's degree in international relations, rather than creative writing -- is still startling." (In this respect, of course, he matches the president’s foreign policy background: None.) The article details how these two shaped and spun make-believe about the facts and their policies and with the aid of a supine press and a number of think tanks and social media outlets helped propagate the false narratives these two wove out of their fantasies. If it weren’t so serious, it would make a great Mel Brooks movie plot.
The two begin their campaign to get a deal with Iran by persuading their patsies that there was a moderate wing of the Iranian government and their purported deal would strengthen that (nonexistent) wing and end “decades of animosity”.
In Samuels’ words:
By obtaining broad public currency for the thought that there was a significant split in the regime, and that the administration was reaching out to moderate-minded Iranians who wanted peaceful relations with their neighbors and with America, Obama was able to evade what might have otherwise been a divisive but clarifying debate over the actual policy choices that his administration was making. By eliminating the fuss about Iran’s nuclear program, the administration hoped to eliminate a source of structural tension between the two countries, which would create the space for America to disentangle itself from its established system of alliances with countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel and Turkey. With one bold move, the administration would effectively begin the process of a large-scale disengagement from the Middle East.
A team under Rhodes worked Congress hard, pitching the argument that there was a choice between war and peace and the president’s plan avoided war.
If you thought there had ever been any rational debate even within the administration on the president’s vainglorious plan to reorient the Middle East, this article should put that notion to rest. There wasn’t.
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www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/an_epiphany_on_the_road_to_tehran.html
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Post by Daniel on May 9, 2016 9:26:28 GMT -5
Obama adviser admits public was 'misled' on Iran nuclear talks
By Ben Ariel
5/9/2016
Ben Rhodes, one of President Barack Obama's top advisers, has admitted that the dealings behind the agreement struck between Iran and world powers last summer were not exactly as presented to the public, Haaretz reported Sunday.
While the American public was led to believe that negotiations between the West and the Islamic Republic took off after the election of President Hassan Rouhani, considered to be a “moderate”, in reality negotiations with hard-liners began much earlier, the report quoted Rhodes as having said in a conversation with The New York Times.
Shortly after Rouhani was elected in 2013, he and Obama exchanged letters, and Obama later publicly reached out to Iran in a speech to the UN General Assembly.
In November of that year, it was revealed that a preliminary deal between Iran and the West was made possible due to secret talks that the United States and Iran held for more than half a year and were authorized by Obama himself.
Those discussions were kept hidden even from America's closest friends, including its five negotiating partners and from Israel.
The reason for the skewed presentation of the talks' timeline, said Rhodes on Sunday, was to enable the administration to sell the deal to a wider audience.
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Post by Daniel on May 10, 2016 19:24:25 GMT -5
White House Denies it Duped Media to Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
by Don Irvine on May 10, 2016
The White House is in full damage control mode after deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes told the New York Times magazine that he used the media and “beltway insiders” to create an “echo chamber” to sell the Iran nuclear deal to the public.
On Friday White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters that the White House didn’t purposely mislead the public, and that reports to the contrary are just “sour grapes” from opponents of the Iran deal:
“I haven’t seen anybody produce any evidence that that’s the case. I recognize there might be some people who are disappointed that they did not succeed in killing the Iran deal and maybe these unfounded claims are the result of sour grapes. The truth is, the administration, under the direction of the President, engaged in an aggressive campaign to make a strong case to the American people that the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon enhanced the national security of the United States.”
That “aggressive campaign” apparently included taking advantage of what Rhodes said was an inexperienced press corps...
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Post by fearnot on May 10, 2016 23:27:29 GMT -5
"He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart"
1 Corinthians 4:5
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Post by Daniel on May 12, 2016 9:17:56 GMT -5
Obama Admin: Yes, We Lied to Israel About Iran
May 09, 2016 | Israel Today Staff
...Where Obama explicitly lied to allies and Americans was in describing the nuclear deal as having been struck with a “moderate” Iranian regime that had finally displaced a far more hard-line government in Tehran.
“The idea that there was a new reality in Iran was politically useful to the Obama administration,” read the Times article.
Had Obama been honest about the fact that the foundation for his deal had already been laid with the former hard-line Iranian government, and that the new “moderate” regime wasn’t really all that moderate, a lot more people would have taken the Israeli view of the nuclear agreement.
Former US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was also interviewed, noting that another lie was the notion that America under Obama would ever resort to military force should Iran violate the agreement and field a nuclear weapon.
Just days after these revelations, the Iranian new agency Tasnim reported that Iran recently tested a new medium-range ballistic missile capable of accurately striking any point in Israel.
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Post by Daniel on May 12, 2016 9:48:07 GMT -5
Times Article on Ben Rhodes Exposes White House Contempt for the Press and Public
by Roger Aronoff on May 11, 2016
A recent article by David Samuels for the New York Times Magazine demonstrates how President Obama and his Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes have been exploiting the media’s willingness to repeat and promote the Obama administration narrative of the day. In the interview Rhodes irreverently nicknames the foreign policy establishment “the Blob” and states that most reporters the administration deals with on foreign affairs are only 27 years old and know nothing. The Blob includes not only top media people, but also “Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and other Iraq war promoters from both parties who now whine incessantly about the collapse of the American security order in Europe and the Middle East.”
Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post describes the Times’ piece as so sycophantic that it has become “gross” through excess chumminess, hypocrisy and absurdity. For example, Lozada writes, “It is the blindness of a writer who declares that Rhodes is ‘not an egotist’ while offering countless examples of that subject’s gargantuan self-regard, and not bothering to note the contradiction.”
Michael Grunwald has also criticized Samuels in an article for Politico. His point is that Samuels is a hawk who opposed the Iran deal, and ignored the nuances in the Rhodes/Obama foreign policy, which Grunwald clearly finds admirable.
Samuels praises Rhodes as the “Boy Wonder of the White House,” and describes how Rhodes sold the press a false story about how the Iran deal negotiations came after President Hassan Rouhani and the “moderate” Iranians came to power. In reality, President Obama was looking for a deal with Iran before he was elected to office, something that Rhodes later had to admit. It turns out that there were no moderate Iranian leaders for the administration to work with—before or after the deal.
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Post by Daniel on May 14, 2016 8:26:58 GMT -5
ACLJ Seeks Records From Obama's State Department on Deleted Video
By Jay Sekulow
We just submitted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the U.S. Department of State so we can get to the bottom of why the State Department deleted press briefing video footage that appeared to confirm that the Obama Administration lied about its dealings with Iran.
On Monday night, Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen reported that the U.S. Department of State had deleted a portion of its official video – the portion containing the spokesperson’s acknowledgment to Rosen that the Obama Administration had lied to the American public about when it began its secret bilateral talks with Iran.
The timing is important because the Obama Administration maintained it waited until after an allegedly more moderate regime was elected in 2013 before engaging Iran. This was part of its strategy in selling the “Iran Deal” to the American people and to Congress.
At the Daily Press Briefing on December 2, 2013, Rosen asked spokesperson Jen Psaki if the talks had really begun as far back as 2011, as Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes recently admitted to the New York Times. Here is what Rosen said, referencing a prior press briefing in February 2013...
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Post by Daniel on May 16, 2016 13:56:11 GMT -5
Ben Rhodes: "The drive behind president barak obama's policies in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East is that of putting appeasement of enemies ahead of supporting allies."
Published on May 15, 2016
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Post by Daniel on May 17, 2016 19:51:41 GMT -5
Iran: U.S. Encouraging Islamic Republic to Keep Illicit Missile Tests Secret
State Department declines to respond
Adam Kredo
May 16, 2016
A senior Iranian military commander claimed that U.S. officials are quietly encouraging the Islamic Republic to keep its illicit ballistic missile tests a secret so as not to raise concerns in the region, according to Persian language comments.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace and Missile Force, said in recent remarks that the Obama administration does not want Iran to publicize its ongoing missile tests, which have raised questions about the Islamic Republic’s commitment to last summer’s comprehensive nuclear agreement.
“At this time, the Americans are telling [us]: ‘Don’t talk about missile affairs, and if you conduct a test or maneuver, don’t mention it,’” Hajizadeh was quoted as saying during a recent Persian-language speech that was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
“If we agree to this, they will advance another step, and say: ‘Don’t conduct at this time, and also don’t do it in the Persian Gulf region.’ After that, they will tell us: ‘Why do you need your missiles to have a range of 2,000 km [anyway?]?’ Hajizadeh reportedly said.
The military commander expressed concern that the United States will attempt to dissuade Iran from developing missile technology capable of carrying a nuclear payload.
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Post by Daniel on May 18, 2016 8:39:22 GMT -5
Obama's 'propagandist': Iran deception was business as usual
By Ari Yashar
5/18/2016
US President Barack Obama's senior White House aide Ben Rhodes on Tuesday refused to say he regrets his comments to the New York Times earlier this month, in which he revealed he and other officials misled the public on the controversial Iran nuclear deal sealed last July.
Rhodes was asked on Tuesday if he has any "regrets" about the article while attending a Center for a New American Security event focused on American policy in Southeast Asia, reports Washington Free Beacon.
"I will not Monday morning quarterback every article that I have been a party to," Rhodes answered dismissively.
"I will say that, you know, when things like this happen, that’s a part of what happens in Washington. The people who know me know what I care about and know how I approach issues, and know what motivates me in this job.”
Rhodes's attempt to brush off his misleading of the public comes after he revealed his methods of using reporters and creating an "echo chamber" of groups supportive of Obama to sell the nuclear deal.
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Post by Daniel on May 22, 2016 18:11:45 GMT -5
J Street tries to defend selling Iran deal for Obama
By Arutz Sheva Staff
5/22/2016
The leftist American Jewish group J Street on Sunday issued a response to the revelation that it received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration's controversial nuclear deal with Iran.
The expose, revealed by Associated Press, noted that the Ploughshares Fund was named in an explosive New York Times profile of Obama aid Ben Rhodes, in which the President's chief propagandist listed the central groups responsible for creating an "echo chamber" in order to promote the deal. J Street was listed as receiving $576,000 to sell the deal, in a sum greater than that of any other group.
In response, the group that claims to be "pro-Israel and pro-peace" did not deny that it received the money to sell President Barack Obama's deal with Iran.
In a statement it said that it "acted in order to advance the nuclear deal with Iran out of faith that it was an important deal, that it had a great contribution also to the security of Israel."
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Post by Daniel on May 25, 2016 17:51:34 GMT -5
How Obama’s “Echo Chamber” Helped Sell the Iran Deal
by Roger Aronoff on May 25, 2016
According to a New York Times Magazine interview with Ben Rhodes, the White House actively created a mainstream media “echo chamber” to bolster its pursuit of a disastrous nuclear deal with Iran. Now, recent news reports indicate that this echo chamber was created in cooperation with the Ploughshares Fund, a group that influenced the mainstream media to advocate for the deal by sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to media organizations such as NPR, Mother Jones and The Nation, as well as to other like-minded groups.
“We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else,” said Rhodes during his recent interview with The New York Times Magazine. “So we knew the tactics that worked.”
Ploughshares is a left-wing organization funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
“What should raise more eyebrows was that Ploughshares didn’t limit its largess to like-minded groups about nuclear weapons…. Ploughshares and its chairman, Joe Cirincione, also dropped some serious coin on National Public Radio, to the tune of some $700,000 since 2005, with grants since 2010…specifically mentioning Iran,” notes Tom Nichols for The Federalist.
“NPR then had Cirincione on to explain the awesomeness of the nuclear deal, at least once forgetting to mention he’d given them several hundred thousand dollars.”
But as The Washington Free Beacon is reporting, NPR cancelled an interview they had lined up with an opponent of the deal, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS)—and initially lied about it. “‘As Obama administration officials admit to misrepresenting reality on the deal, it is clear that the American people have been played,’ Pompeo, a member of the House intelligence committee, told the Free Beacon on Monday.”
“Specifically, recent statements and financial documents raise serious concerns about the integrity of the Ploughshares Fund, NPR, which is partly tax-payer funded, and the entire nuclear deal debate,” added Pompeo.
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Post by Daniel on May 30, 2016 14:19:30 GMT -5
The Iran Deal Wasn’t About Nukes At All
The Obama administration decided early on that the only way to get the United States out of the Middle East was to replace it with Russia and Iran.
Remember the Iran deal? Of course you do. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was one of the greatest diplomatic agreements of our time, a last-ditch effort to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb and thus avert inevitable military action by the United States and its allies. Hard negotiations provided a verifiable inspections plan that would keep Iran walking the straight and narrow for at least a decade, if not longer. The media, of course, served only as the impartial platform for analysis and debate.
Anyone who doubted this narrative or raised almost any objections to the deal was just a hater, maybe even a racist with a personal grudge against Barack Obama. (Also against the deal, of course: Jews with divided loyalties.) After all, the experts—non-partisan, of course—assured us that everything was in order.
This was all nonsense. What really happened was that the White House put out a set of talking points, not all of them true or accurate, to a trusted circle of journalists and advocacy groups. Those groups worked with experts in other groups, who then supported those talking points in media already friendly to the White House narrative. Asked for comment, the White House agreed with the experts it had primed, then fed more talking points back into the loop.
We no longer have to speculate about this. As anyone paying attention now knows, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes—it’s so hard to type those words—couldn’t help but take a victory lap in front of The New York Times. Rhodes named names and organizations, crowing that the White House had created “an echo chamber” mainly composed of journalists who are “27 years old and…literally know nothing.”
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What’s the Real Game Here?
The smug admissions by Rhodes and others that the “echo chamber” was real and did its job are grating. But to focus on Rhodes and Cirincione spiking the football is to miss a more important question: Why did everyone go to such lengths over a deal that was supposed to be so good?
Rhodes, of course, says it’s because everyone but the White House and its friends were too stupid to understand how smart the deal was. The real answer, however, is as unsettling as it is simple: selling the deal required subterfuge and misdirection because the Iran deal was never about nuclear weapons.
The White House and its supporters were set on two goals, one of them trivial, the other terrifying. The trivial objective was to give a failed presidency at least one foreign policy legacy item. That was to be expected, since the Obama administration, in permanent campaign mode since the day the president took office, has presided over the worst American foreign policy in the modern era.
The more stomach-churning objective is that the administration, as it turned out, really believed in its pledges to get America out of the Middle East, and decided early on that the only way to do this was to replace the United States in the region with a duumvirate of Russia and Iran. Here, the JCPOA was part of a huge gamble to transform the region, with nuclear weapons the secondary rather than primary issue. That’s why J Street and others were involved: they were far less concerned with notional Iranian nuclear weapons than they were with advancing President Obama’s Middle East legacy—without having to admit what it was.
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Post by Daniel on May 30, 2016 14:21:01 GMT -5
Mid-East Prophecy Update – May 29th, 2016
Published on May 29, 2016
Pastor J.D. focuses the attention on developments concerning Jerusalem, specifically as it relates to the uniting against Israel, and the pressure on Israel, to acquiesce to that which would lead to her destruction, under the banner of “peace and security.”
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Post by Daniel on Jun 11, 2016 9:54:58 GMT -5
Sec. Kerry Orders State Department to Investigate Cover-Up
By Jay Sekulow
Yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry ordered the State Department to investigate the State Department’s intentional deletion of a 2013 briefing where its spokesperson admitted that the Obama Administration misled the American people about the Iran nuclear deal.
This comes as the ACLJ expects a response later this week to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on this matter (something the State Department is legally required to comply with).
The Washington Examiner has more details on the investigation:
Secretary of State John Kerry has ordered the State Department to re-examine how a video of a 2013 video came to be edited to remove a sensitive discussion about the Iran nuclear agreement.
Last week, spokesmen for the department said it hit a "dead end" in its investigation, which failed to determine who ordered the video to be edited. But on Wednesday, spokesman Mark Toner said Kerry insisted that officials try again.
"Given the secretary's strong interest, given Congress' strong interest and given the media's strong interest, we've decided to continue to look at that," he said. Kerry had called the entire episode "stupid" and "clumsy."
"Basically because the secretary said he wants to dive deeper into this, [State will] look more into what happened, and try to get to the bottom of what happened," he said.
This is a step in the right direction – but we won’t stop demanding justice until the American people have all the answers. The Obama Administration must do more than simply pay lip service to the notion of government transparency and accountability.
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Post by Daniel on Jun 28, 2016 17:43:23 GMT -5
ACLJ Files FOIA Lawsuit Against Obama Administration, Seeks Records on Iran Negotiation Cover-up
By Jay Sekulow
Today, the ACLJ filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. State Department, demanding that it follow the law and provide key records shedding light on its cover-up of the Obama Administration’s Iran lie.
It started last month, when the ACLJ announced it had filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain government records showing who in the Obama Administration was involved in censoring an official State Department press briefing video to delete an embarrassing admission that the Administration lied about its Iran deal negotiations.
As we explained in our Complaint, the Administration originally claimed the deletion was a “glitch,” but after receiving our FOIA request, it admitted the deletion was not a glitch, but was instead “deliberate.”
The State Department’s legal deadline to respond to our FOIA request (by advising whether it will comply, claiming a statutory exemption, or asking for more time) has come and gone, and it has failed to comply with FOIA’s clear and simple requirements. There is no excuse for thumbing its nose at the law. The requirements are unambiguous and the records we requested should not be hard to find.
Unfortunately, the ACLJ must take the State Department to court to get the answers to which we, and the American people, are entitled. To date, over 40,000 Americans have joined us in pursuit of the truth by signing our petition demanding the truth about the Obama Administration’s Iran lie.
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