New Yorkers may have elected a nutjob for a mayor but several thousand of them at least are astute enough to know that the pending nuclear deal with Iran is insanity. Yesterday there was a rally in Times Square that the mainstream media -aka- the propaganda arm of the Obama administration – didn’t cover. So if you aren’t tuned in to talk radio, and don’t get most of your news from the internet -you probably didn’t even know about it. But there they were: Thousands protest against Iran nuclear agreement in Times Square rally ~
Video via UK Telegraph
There is significant bi-partisan opposition to this nightmare treaty. (Yes, there really are some sane Dems! Notably, Alan Dershowitz.) Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran (CNFI) – all Democrats from what I can tell – are sponsoring an online pledge: Tell Congress to vote to reject a bad Iran nuclear deal.
CUFI (Christians United For Israel) has a petition HERE.
You really have to be living in an alternative reality to believe we should go forward with this deal. Joel B. Pollak at Breitbart summarized today’s Senate hearings and the described the most outrageous features of the agreement ~
Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, and Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew are making the rounds on Capitol Hill in an effort to sell the Iran deal. Their appearance at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday did not go well, as the three men struggled to answer basic questions and objections to the substance of the deal, as well as the process through which it had been rushed to the UN Security Council before coming to Congress. There were several new revelations at the hearing. Here are the 5 most important:
2. The Iran deal does not retain ballistic missile sanctions for eight years–it relieves them immediately. Menendez pointed out to Kerry that this week’s UN Security Council Resolution 2231 merely provides that Iran is “called upon” to refrain from “any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons” for eight years, while Resolution 1929, which it replaced, said that Iran “shall not” do such activity. Kerry had no answer, but claimed the U.S. fought hard for the (meaningless) eight-year extension.
3. The Obama administration contrived the deal’s 90-day delay as a propaganda trick. Kerry claimed that the Iran deal, as codified by the UN Security Council, would only be implemented after a 90-day delay so that Congress would be able to complete its 60-day review under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (the “Corker bill”). However, Resolution 2231 is not contingent on Congress’s approval and the administration will not ask for a Security Council re-vote if Congress rejects the deal–nor could it, because others wield a veto.
4. The administration does not plan to re-authorize existing U.S. sanctions on Iran when they expire in 2016. This was a sticking point for Menendez, who noted that the Iran deal prevents the U.S. from re-applying existing nuclear sanctions once Iran complied with the deal. Surely, then, we would want to extend the existing sanctions until Iran complied? If the snap-back provisions of the Iran deal are to be effective, surely they must snap back to…something? The administration is evidently prepared to concede yet more ground to Iran.
5. John Kerry does not think Israel’s government (or opposition) knows what it is talking about. Kerry cited–and the State Department’s Marie Harf tweeted–a blog post about a former Israeli intelligence official who likes the Iran deal, adding that Israelis “who know what they are talking about” support it. Kerry was questioned about his source, as well as the claim itself. Did he not think Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows what he is talking about? Kerry deflected, saying only that Netanyahu knows his own fears.
Yesterday’s rally in NYC was just thousands of Americans, peacefully assembling, calling on their elected leaders to reject this foolhardy nuclear deal with Iran. It wasn’t Baltimore, it wasn’t Ferguson, and it didn’t fit the Leftist agenda, so the msm ignored it.
If this treaty with tyrants is approved by Congress, one day in the near future Iran will be launching its first nuclear missile. I daresay that’s a story that will be impossible for them to ignore.
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Breitbart live-blogged the event and has videos posted of speeches by Allen West, Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post editor) and Ted Cruz.
Cotton: Kerry ‘Acted Like Pontius Pilate,’ Washed His Hands on Iran ‘Secret’ Side Deals ~ Congress is supposed to agree to this disaster of a treaty without even knowing all the details. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) alleges that Kerry ok’d the agreemeent while ignoring side deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding Iran’s testing of detonators and their nuclear program’s past military work.
Iran deal a catastrophe of historic proportions ~ and, as Thomas Sowell laments, “we are too preoccupied with our electronic devices, the antics of celebrities and politics as usual.”
He points out as well that it’s the irresponsible media who share a good portion of the blame for this looming crisis ~
The Obama administration’s leaking of Israel’s secret agreement with Azerbaijan to allow Israeli warplanes to refuel there, during attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, was a painfully clear sabotage of any Israeli attempt to destroy those Iranian facilities.
But the media’s usual practice to hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil in the Obama administration buried this news, and allowed Obama to continue to pose as Israel’s friend, just as he continued to assure Americans that, if they liked their doctor they could keep their doctor.
