The Tricks Obama Is Trying to Play with the Iran Announcement

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Commentary Magazine: The Tricks Obama Is Trying to Play with the Iran Announcement

John Podhoretz | @jpodhoretz04.02.2015 - 4:35 PM

If you look at what happened today between the U.S. and Iran through the lens of domestic American politics, Barack Obama has made a very clever play here—because what might be called “the agreement of the framework of the possibility of a potential deal” gives him new leverage in his ongoing battle with the Senate to limit its ability to play a role in the most critical foreign-policy matter of the decade.

 

The “framework” codifies the Obama administration’s cave-ins but casts them as thrilling reductions in Iran’s capacities rather than what they are—a pie-in-the-sky effort to use inspections as the means by which the West can “manage” the speed with which Iran becomes a nuclear power.

 

Obama’s tone of triumph this afternoon was mixed with sharp reminders that the deal is actually not yet done—and that is entirely the point of this exercise from a domestic standpoint. the triumph signals his troops and apologists that the time has come for them to stand with him, praise the deal sheet and pretend it’s a deal, declare it historic, and generally act as though the world has been delivered from a dreadful confrontation by Obama and Kerry.

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Iran Accuses U.S. of Lying About New Nuke Agreement

 

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Just hours after the announcement of what the United States characterized as a historic agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, the country’s leading negotiator lashed out at the Obama administration for lying about the details of a tentative framework.

 

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the Obama administration of misleading the American people and Congress in a fact sheet it released following the culmination of negotiations with the Islamic Republic.

 

Zarif bragged in an earlier press conference with reporters that the United States had tentatively agreed to let it continue the enrichment of uranium, the key component in a nuclear bomb, as well as key nuclear research.

 

Zarif additionally said Iran would have all nuclear-related sanctions lifted once a final deal is signed and that the country would not be forced to shut down any of its currently operating nuclear installations.

 

Following a subsequent press conference by Secretary of State John Kerry—and release of a administration fact sheet on Iranian concessions—Zarif lashed out on Twitter over what he dubbed lies.

 

“The solutions are good for all, as they stand,” he tweeted. “There is no need to spin using ‘fact sheets’ so early on.”

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-accuses-u-s-of-lying-about-new-nuke-agreement/

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When the Iran Deal Hits the Fan

 

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/70924

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First Friday Prayers after Deal: “Death to America”

Michael Rubin | @mrubin197104.03.2015 - 10:25 AM

Well, Mohammad Javad Zarif might know how to charm politicians like Secretary of State John Kerry and his diplomatic team but, increasingly, it seems as if President Obama’s notion of a historic change in Iranian behavior was, well, a bit premature.

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/04/03/first-friday-prayers-after-deal-death-to-america/#more-858682

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The American Interest

DEAL OR NO DEAL Published on: April 2, 2015

 

Diplomatic Chicken

 

So we have a framework deal with Iran. Now we can expect an avalanche of hype about the supposed significance of this deal. No doubt the President’s supporters will portray him as a hero and a tactical genius. This is, of course, absurd.

As I write at around two p.m. on Thursday, April 2, 2015, a framework deal seems to have been reached in Switzerland, putting a temporary end to a game of diplomatic chicken that has held the world veritably spellbound for the past several days. But it really doesn’t matter much if this game has ended or if it has not ended. There will be an avalanche of hype about the supposed significance of this deal, and it will be wrong. No doubt the President’s supporters will portray him as a hero and a tactical genius. That is simply absurd.

 

A good deal has been made already, even before today’s announcement, over a last-minute March 31 teleconference between Secretaries Kerry and Moniz with the President, in which the President reportedly told the American negotiators to ignore the March 31 deadline, but to make clear to the Iranians that the United States was ready to walk away from the table, with all sanctions left in place. I’m sorry, but the hopeful interpretations attached to this decision, http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/04/02/diplomatic-chicken/

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It appears we have yet one more brilliant foreign policy success for the Obama Administration!
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France: The US Capitulated To Iranian Demands

Friday, April 3, 2015

 

Not all of America's negotiating partners were happy with the deal announce by President Obama. As talks proceeded past two deadlines last year, and the deadline earlier this week, the U.S. made a host of concessions. The American positions drew ire from France.

Today French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gave a radio interview stating that France had rejected the original version of the deal as "not solid enough", and wanted firmer conditions. But the Iranian delegation to walk out of the talks so Kerry gave in.

 

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H/T Hugh Hewitt

 

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Backlash against "the deal" large and growing. It is so obviously a capitulation that no amount of spin is going to save it

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3 guesses who'd finger prints are all over this?

 

Hillary Clinton's secret Iran man

Jake Sullivan, who helped bring about the nuclear talks, may have to help Clinton defend them in 2016.

Michael Crowley

4/3/15

 

It was Sept. 27, 2013, and President Barack Obama was about to place a historic phone call to the president of Iran — a conversation that would kick off the public phase of nuclear talks between two longtime adversaries.

 

And it was at that moment that Jake Sullivan, a 30-something aide who’d spent months secretly laying the groundwork for the talks, started to panic.

 

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Eighteen months later, Sullivan’s attention to detail has paid off. In Switzerland on Thursday, officials from the U.S. and five other nations reached a framework deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program — vindicating, for the moment at least, Sullivan’s deep personal involvement in the process.

 

And thanks to Sullivan, the deal also bears the clear fingerprints of his political mentor, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who first assigned him to the Iran file and with whom he remains extremely close. Sullivan “was at my side nearly everywhere I went” as secretary of state, Clinton wrote in her memoir, “Hard Choices.”

 

 

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Well Not Really

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The Onion Got It Right Feb 27, 2013

 

The line between Satire and Hard News Blurs!

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Obama hammers Walker on foreign policy? Really?

By DrJohn

 

Tue, Apr, 7th,

 

The self-appointed king of all things has made clear he is displeased with the man democrats fear most- Scott Walker. Walker dared criticize Obama’s Iran deal and Obama has lashed out at Walker: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker shouldn’t criticize the U.S.-led nuclear deal with Iran until he’s had more time to “bone up” on… »http://www.floppingaces.net/2015/04/07/obama-hammers-walker-on-foreign-policy-really/