The Iranians have banked U.S. concessions, while disputing purported U.S. achievements.

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Legal Insurrection: Iran Framework Deal: Greatest Political Hoax Ever?

Posted by William A. Jacobson ▪ April 5, 2015 at 12:32pm

 

The Iranians have banked U.S. concessions, while disputing purported U.S. achievements.

 

I have fallen into the trap almost everyone has, in referring to an Iran “nuke deal” and “Framework deal.”

 

Based on what the White House has revealed, the “deal” is a very bad deal, as we have explored here repeatedly: It purports to give Iran its dual goals of maintaining and improving its nuclear infrastructure while removing sanctions and ensuring the economic viability of the oppressive Mullah regime.

 

But it’s even worse. Based upon statements made after the initial announcements, it’s clear that there is not deal, just enough vague vergiage to allow each side to portray the “deal” however it wants. There is no meeting of minds, not binding contract, nothing.

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Munich, Anyone? Obama’s Iran Agreement in Translation

April 5th, 2015 - 9:49 pm by Roger L Simon

When Barack Obama told us on dozens of occasions that we could keep our previous health plan and doctor under the Affordable Care Act, he was doing it for one of two reasons. Either he was ignorant of his own legislation (unlikely) or he was deliberately lying to get it passed. He knew best what was good for us and if he had to prevaricate, so be it.

 

The so-called framework agreement on Iranian nuclear activities is almost exactly the same. Obama again believes it is best for us, but if we are to believe Amir Taheri (and I do), this “agreement” (that the Iranians are calling merely a press release) is understood completely differently by both parties. We have been told another series of lies in order to get something passed — or in this case not to oppose it.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/04/05/munich-anyone/

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Inability to Free Iran’s American Hostages Shows Deal’s Faulty Logic

Michael Rubin | @mrubin197104.06.2015 - 7:25 AM

With the United States, as part of the P5+1, striking a framework deal with Iran, the issue of the four American hostages seized in and still held by Iran has once again come to the forefront. It’s hard to conceive that the United States would have given the Islamic Republic of Iran $11.9 billion in unfrozen assets and not received a simple gesture of goodwill in return, although it is also true that the United States should not offer concessions to regimes like Iran and North Korea which so often seek to profit from seizing Americans.

 

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/04/06/inability-to-free-irans-american-hostages-show-deals-faulty-logic/