Senate Republicans Marco Rubio (R – FL) and Mark Kirk (R – IL), both of whom have been outspoken opponents of the Iran nuclear deal, today suggested the US should tie the release of Washington Post reporter Jason Razaian to the deal.
This is just the latest in a series of things that have nothing to do with Iran’s civilian nuclear program that Republicans have called to add to the terms of the deal. They have also demanding tying it to Iran cutting all ties with Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as endorsing Israel’s call to demand Iran endorse Israel publicly as part of the “deal.”
Iran could concede on every one of these points, however, and would almost certainly face a voting majority of the US Congress trying to kill the deal, since many, including both Kirk and Rubio, have suggested they will oppose it on any terms. Israel will be heavily lobbying them to oppose it, no matter what terms were added.
At any rate, it seems impossible for the US to get these assorted demands added to the P5+1 deal, since the other P5+1 member nations have made it clear they want this deal to be exclusively negotiated on Iran’s nuclear program, and not to become a catch-all for all US grievances against them over the last 35 years.
darn those wily iranians! we keep moving the goalposts, they keep agreeing!
well, we'll just have to move 'em again, and again, and again…….
We don't know the case against this guy. All we know is that the Washington Post protests innocence. That neocon rag has been lying about Iran and the region for decades, and is only getting worse.
The CIA does use reporters. This guy got arrested immediately after he was at the nuclear talks. What did he do there? Nobody is saying.
Maybe he did nothing wrong. But I wouldn't believe it just because the Wash Post says so, without any facts to back it up.
He could be innocent and a pawn. He could have been a fool and done something stupid. We don't know. Except Rubio and Kirk "know" of course (wouldn't buy a used car from either of them).
A.K.A. poison pill.
We shouldn't forget that the Revolution was in fact an answer to the Iranian CIA funded Coup of the early Fifties! The Temerity of Iran to want their Oil to make money for Iran and Not the Anglo Iranian Oil Company later to become BP! Just remember just prior to the Shahs Overthrow none other than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were in Iran trying to sell up to six nuclear Power reactors to be built by Westinghouse, so the argument that Iran needed Nuclear Power is made by some of the very people instrumental in this fiasco!