On September 19, 2017
President Trump addressed the 72nd Session of the United Nations General
Assembly. In his remarks he said of the Iran deal:
“We cannot let a murderous regime continue these
destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles, and we cannot abide
by an agreement if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear
program.”
“The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided
transactions the United States has ever entered into,” Trump continued.
“Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States and I don’t think
you have heard the last of it, believe me.”
“It is far past time for the nations of the world to
confront another reckless regime, one that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing
‘death to America,’ destruction to Israel, and ruin to many nations and leaders
in this room,” Trump said, accusing Iran of hiding behind a “false guise of a
democracy.”
“It is time for the entire world to join us in demanding
that Iran end its pursuit of death and destruction,” Trump said.
A month later, speaking
from the Oval Office, the President made the following assertions in his speech
on the Iran nuclear agreement known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA):
“The regime harbored high-level terrorists in the wake of the
9/11 attacks, including Osama bin Laden’s son.”
“The regime remains the world’s leading state
sponsor of terrorism, and provides assistance to al-Qaeda, the Taliban,
Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist networks.”
“The previous administration lifted these
sanctions, just before what would have been the total collapse of the Iranian
regime, through the deeply controversial 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.”
JCPOA “also gave the regime an immediate financial
boost and over $100 billion its government could use to fund terrorism. The
regime also received a massive cash settlement of $1.7 billion from the United
States, a large portion of which was physically loaded onto an airplane and
flown into Iran.”
“The deal allows Iran to continue developing
certain elements of its nuclear program and, importantly, in just a few years,
as key restrictions disappear, Iran can sprint towards a rapid nuclear weapons
breakout.”
“The Iranian regime has committed multiple
violations of the agreement. For example, on two separate occasions, they have
exceeded the limit of 130 metric tons of heavy water. Until recently, the
Iranian regime has also failed to meet our expectations in its operation of
advanced centrifuges.”
“There are also many people who believe that
Iran is dealing with North Korea. I am going to instruct our intelligence
agencies to do a thorough analysis and report back their findings beyond what
they have already reviewed.”
How eager was
The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer to see Iran break through its
isolation and become a successful regional power? Profoundly eager.
In 2014,
Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communication and a
member of the president’s innermost circle, told a group of activists in the
Democrat Party the agreement in 2013 between Tehran and the P5+1 gave the Obama Administration “the best opportunity we’ve had to resolve
the Iranian nuclear issue.”
Rhodes
confided, “This is Obamacare just to put it in context…it’s probably the
biggest thing President Obama will do in his second term on foreign policy. We’re
already kind of thinking through, how do we structure a deal so we don’t
necessarily require legislative action right away.”
NOTE:
Rhodes was unaware his comments were being recording.
“Structuring”
the Iran deal in order to bypass legislative action involved ripping apart
Project Cassandra. The entire effort was
done from the top down. According to a
report which has been widely linked to Politico,
the Obama White House directly prevented actions by the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) to battle the terror group Hezbollah.
Project Cassandra was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement
Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a
Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international
crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a
year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal
activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA
facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and
informants to map Hezbollah's illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and
foreign security agencies.
They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West
Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and
Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was
laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them
to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents
traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and
its state sponsors in Iran.
They followed cocaine shipments, tracked a river of dirty cash,
and traced what they believed to be the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state
sponsors in Iran.
But as Project Cassandra reached into the hierarchy of the
conspiracy, Obama Administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable
series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of
participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded
in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When
Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations,
prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and
Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.
CIA Director John Brennan had long advocated better relations with
Hezbollah and Secretary of State John “Horseface” Kerry was hell-bent to make
every conceivable concession to the terror state of Iran including shipping pallets
of cash totaling $400 million to the mullahs in an unmarked cargo plane. That sum of money was used to secure the
release of Americans who were being held hostage by Tehran.
I think the facts here
are undeniable. The United States, under
the direction The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer, made extensive
concessions to a nation that openly sought to destabilize our interests, attack
our allies, and kill our people—for nothing in return but the chance to strut
like a banty rooster and give self-flattering speeches.
