Iran’s nuclear negotiations will be resuming soon, according to Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahlan, who addressed the matter on Saturday. No date has been set for the talks.
When they do resume, Iran’s focus will be not just on getting the 2015 deal back in place, but on getting verification that the US will actually provide the promised sanctions relief.
That’s no small matter, as President Obama reached the deal but never delivered on sanctions relief. President Trump followed this up by dishonoring the deal in its entirety. President Biden is keen to get the deal back in effect, but it would be pointless for Iran if the US still feels they can ignore their responsibilities.
For Iran, verification would include the US not just delivering, but providing some sort of assurance that they aren’t going to dishonor the deal again after the next election. US officials have warned they don’t really have a way to promise that.
No deal is better than a fake deal….! Iran won’t be conned again…!
A fake deal can stave off war until other events intervene. That seems to have been the plot last time.
There won’t be any wars… only covert ops…!
Why can’t our Government just for ONCE negotiate in good faith, deliver what we promised without going back on our word, as usual, under pressure of the pro Israel lobby? Our word can not be trusted and the world knows it.
The “Pro-Israel Lobby”, eh?
They aren’t any less vociferous than CAIR or the Arab-American Institute (headed by James Zogby, one of the more prominent of Bernie Sander’s campaign managers–talk about “political influence”) are when it comes to being “Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Islamic–and pursuing those interests professionally…Oh, bit that’s different, right?
The thing about AIPAC–which Anti-Zionists natter about all the time as interfering in US governmental affairs–is that they have a written policy about not contributing directly to individual political campaigns in the US. CAIR, on the other hand, does contribute to the utmost they are allowed to candidates of their choosing. So, which “Lobby” is more pushy about their “special interests” on that score?
Rashida Tlaib is especially strident as she bemoans the Palestinian plight and spits fire at Israel constantly–all while pointing her hypocritical finger at “Zionists” for doing far less of what she condemns in that regard than she does every day.
You won’t find louder and more strident voices in Congress lobbying for the Palestinians (and very pointedly against Israel) than Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Betty McCollum…Ilhan Omar recently distinguished herself as a blazing hypocrite when she publicly stated that sanctions against other countries (like Turkey) are counter-productive and don’t work anyway. However, she and her Squad sisters push their BDS agenda in our faces every chance they get. I guess they make a special exception for “Zionists.”
Shall we go on?
“The thing about AIPAC–which Anti-Zionists natter about all the time as interfering in US governmental affairs–is that they have a written policy about not contributing directly to individual political campaigns in the US. CAIR, on the other hand, does contribute to the utmost they are allowed to candidates of their choosing.”
Interesting. Where do I find out more about these alleged campaign contributions, which would be completely illegal if they in fact existed? “The utmost they are allowed to” contribute to political campaigns is $0.00.
You’re correct that AIPAC does not make direct political campaign contributions, for the same reason that CAIR doesn’t — they’re both registered with the IRS as non-profits, not as political committees or PACs. Their members/supporters, not they themselves, make political campaign contributions.
CAIR has an annual budget of about $3 million, AIPAC about $70 million.
If you’re correct, about five members of Congress — out of 535 — are supportive of CAIR’s agenda. How many are supportive of AIPAC’s? Want to bet money that it’s far more than five?
CAIR, in fact, does give money to the political campaigns of candidates of their choosing, to the max they allowed. And I already mentioned how James Zogby, the literal head of one of the most powerful and active Pro-Arab Anti-Israel lobbies was also one of the head honchos for Bernie Sander’s campaign operations. In fact, as I recall, Bernie Sanders very publicly pointedly refused invitations to address AIPAC but was both eager and willing to embrace and be a keynote speaker for CAIR and other vocally Anti-Zionist organizations.
Your statement about how “only five members of Congress are supportive of CAIR’s Agenda” is ridiculous on its face. Barack Obama, himself, is the politician who most brought CAIR into the public spotlight. While he was President, he lent them a semblance of legitimacy that they had previously lacked –given how their roots were initially planted by the Muslim Brotherhood organization.
If making even limited campaign contributions was completely illegal anyway, then there wouldn’t be any reason for AIPAC to publicize their decision not to do so. And there also wouldn’t be any reason for so many “Anti Zionists” to keep screaming about how AIPAC is always buying elections as part of their sinister plot to control government influence. Which was the stubborn meme behind Ilhan Omar’s “”It’s all about the Benjamins, baby!” comment. It’s notable than Ilhan Omar also made a public blunder when she made a dramatic speech about how CAIR was started in response to the terrible discrimination that Muslims in America were experiencing after the 9/11 attacks (which was “something some people did”…same speech.) It didn’t seem to matter to her or her rapt audience that people, who wish to, can count. CAIR was begun in the 1990’s and 9/11 occurred in 2001. Ooppsie!
All the above makes my original point more obvious than merely “interesting”, I think. What’s “interesting” is the idea of anyone finding comments like your’s even remotely credible. Then again, really dedicated “Anti-Zionists” (and the Anti Semites who pretend that that is all that they are) tend to be predisposed to believe the propaganda they want to believe and find it amazingly easy to overlook alternative facts that might contradict it.
“CAIR, in fact, does give money to the political campaigns of candidates of their choosing, to the max they allowed.”
True. The max they are allowed is $0.00.
“Your statement about how ‘only five members of Congress are supportive of CAIR’s Agenda’ is ridiculous on its face.”
You’re the one who named the five. If you’re saying there are more, feel free to name them.
Neither CAIR nor AIPAC donate to political campaigns. That’s a fact. You don’t have to like the fact that it’s a fact. It’s a fact whether you like the fact that it’s a fact or not.
Untrue. You are either a stone-cold troll or simply ignorant and hope everybody else who may be following this exchange is as well. CAIR has several PACs. They donate in several different localities.
No one in their right mind would credit that ridiculous statement of your’s about how only five members of Congress support CAIR. Also, it’s quite notable and noticeable how you skimmed right over my statement about Senator Sanders and Barack Obama.
Get real.
One notable thing about you that maybe people reading your comments should know is how you haunt antiwar.org and other supposedly progressive sites and The American Conservative, simultaneously.
Quite the contradiction (or troll with a hidden agenda,) you are.
Antiwar.com isn’t a “supposedly progressive site.” It’s an antiwar site (most people associated with it are libertarians). As for The American Conservative, a number of authors at Antiwar.com have, at one time or another, been associated with TAC.