Iranians freed in Obama's nuclear deal posed national security threat, says report

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/24/iranians-freed-in-obamas-nuclear-deal-posed-national-security-threat-says-report.html

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A fitting decision for a crappy President who's policies were entirely about looking good while bending over to the most heinous people on the planet. Bravo, Obama. 

 

 

And good ****ing riddance. 

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Here is an additional story from a non-FoxNews source.  It is a long read, and I was a bit surprised to see this in Politico, but hey, maybe they are seeing the light.

 

When President Barack Obama announced the “one-time gesture” of releasing Iranian-born prisoners who “were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses” last year, his administration presented the move as a modest trade-off for the greater good of the Iran nuclear agreement and Tehran’s pledge to free five Americans.

“Iran had a significantly higher number of individuals, of course, at the beginning of this negotiation that they would have liked to have seen released,” one senior Obama administration official told reporters in a background briefing arranged by the White House, adding that “we were able to winnow that down to these seven individuals, six of whom are Iranian-Americans.”

 

But Obama, the senior official and other administration representatives weren’t telling the whole story on Jan. 17, 2016, in their highly choreographed rollout of the prisoner swap and simultaneous implementation of the six-party nuclear deal, according to a POLITICO investigation.

In his Sunday morning address to the American people, Obama portrayed the seven men he freed as “civilians.” The senior official described them as businessmen convicted of or awaiting trial for mere “sanctions-related offenses, violations of the trade embargo.”

 

In reality, some of them were accused by Obama’s own Justice Department of posing threats to national security. Three allegedly were part of an illegal procurement network supplying Iran with U.S.-made microelectronics with applications in surface-to-air and cruise missiles like the kind Tehran test-fired recently, prompting a still-escalating exchange of threats with the Trump administration. Another was serving an eight-year sentence for conspiring to supply Iran with satellite technology and hardware. As part of the deal, U.S. officials even dropped their demand for $10 million that a jury said the aerospace engineer illegally received from Tehran.

And in a series of unpublicized court filings, the Justice Department dropped charges and international arrest warrants against 14 other men, all of them fugitives. The administration didn’t disclose their names or what they were accused of doing, noting only in an unattributed, 152-word statement about the swap that the U.S. “also removed any Interpol red notices and dismissed any charges against 14 Iranians for whom it was assessed that extradition requests were unlikely to be successful.”

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/24/obama-iran-nuclear-deal-prisoner-release-236966

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Iran is one of the most cunning countries in the world. In many ways, they remind me of Germany of the 1930's. Up to a whole lot of no good, yet convincing most of the world they are misunderstood and peaceful. To that I say: Heh.