P5+1 did the very best job they could do to end the nuclear threat from Iran. As far as Iran's other interests; there are still some sanctions in place by the USA placed by President Obama because of violations of international law by Iran and it has absolutely nothing to do with nuclear non-proliferation.
Iran is going to do what Iran is going to do and nothing, including sanctions, is going to stop Iran. Iran supports Shi'ite groups throughout the crescent. That has always been the case and currently it is still a problem.
The Republican Congress can't seem to get their minds around the fact Iran's nuclear threat is contained. That is nothing short of a miracle.
The sanctions levied against Iran that are moving off Iran's economy were in relation to it's illegal nuclear proliferation program. I MIGHT POINT OUT, that proliferation occurred under the Bush presidency.
Bush's Axis of Evil speech set off all kinds of proliferation in North Korea and Iran. There was no way Bush would talk to Iran, so Iran did what it had to do and worked on it's centrifuges and test fired rockets. THAT is what war and ill spirited foreign policy does. It places the world in a very dangerous place. The Middle East today can thank President Obama and the other members of the P5+1 for ending threats to countries such as Lebanon and ISRAEL from Iran's nuclear capacity.
The political propaganda by the Republicans who are pouting about the fact Iran is not the 52nd state after Iraq and it is not based in fact or POLICY.
October 5, 2015
By W. Gardner Shelby
...By email, McCaul (click here) spokesman Walter Zaykowski answered our request for elaboration by saying the casualty count originated with the Pentagon. He said McCaul’s mention of Iran plotting an attack in Washington, D.C., reflected the May 2013 conviction of an Iranian-American resident of San Antonio for plotting to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States....
McCaul is stating half-truths. Republicans always state half truths. The incident with Saudi Arabia is well known and occurred May 30, 2013. It was NOT an attack on Washington, DC. It was a plot to assassinate a Saudi Ambassador on USA soil. It was prevented and there were no deaths.
May 30, 2013
An Iranian American used-car salesman from Texas (click here) at the center of a bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to 25 years in prison.
Iran is going to do what Iran is going to do and nothing, including sanctions, is going to stop Iran. Iran supports Shi'ite groups throughout the crescent. That has always been the case and currently it is still a problem.
The Republican Congress can't seem to get their minds around the fact Iran's nuclear threat is contained. That is nothing short of a miracle.
The sanctions levied against Iran that are moving off Iran's economy were in relation to it's illegal nuclear proliferation program. I MIGHT POINT OUT, that proliferation occurred under the Bush presidency.
Bush's Axis of Evil speech set off all kinds of proliferation in North Korea and Iran. There was no way Bush would talk to Iran, so Iran did what it had to do and worked on it's centrifuges and test fired rockets. THAT is what war and ill spirited foreign policy does. It places the world in a very dangerous place. The Middle East today can thank President Obama and the other members of the P5+1 for ending threats to countries such as Lebanon and ISRAEL from Iran's nuclear capacity.
The political propaganda by the Republicans who are pouting about the fact Iran is not the 52nd state after Iraq and it is not based in fact or POLICY.
October 5, 2015
By W. Gardner Shelby
...By email, McCaul (click here) spokesman Walter Zaykowski answered our request for elaboration by saying the casualty count originated with the Pentagon. He said McCaul’s mention of Iran plotting an attack in Washington, D.C., reflected the May 2013 conviction of an Iranian-American resident of San Antonio for plotting to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States....
McCaul is stating half-truths. Republicans always state half truths. The incident with Saudi Arabia is well known and occurred May 30, 2013. It was NOT an attack on Washington, DC. It was a plot to assassinate a Saudi Ambassador on USA soil. It was prevented and there were no deaths.
May 30, 2013
An Iranian American used-car salesman from Texas (click here) at the center of a bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to 25 years in prison.
Mannsor Arbabsiar, 58, had pleaded guilty in October to a charge of murder-for-hire and two counts of conspiracy for his role in attempting to orchestrate the 2011 bombing assassination of Adel al-Jubeir while the ambassador dined at Cafe Milano, an upscale Georgetown restaurant.
Prosecutors said Arbabsiar was recruited by a cousin who was a senior official in the Quds Force, which in 2007 the Treasury Department designated a terrorist supporter, according to court papers. The group is part of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is closely aligned with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....
A Quds Force member and a cousin recruited violence toward Saudi Arabia by his relative in the USA. That is a lone wolf attack. It isn't a clandestine plot officiated by Iran.
The way McCaul speaks is the equivalent of holding Pakistan and Saudi Arabia responsible for San Bernardino. It is ridiculous.
This propaganda spewed across the US House hearing chamber and otherwise is EXACTLY what the electorate should realize as they place their ballots in 2016. We cannot plug into false words that will ultimately put the USA back into the venue of illegal and immoral wars.
The Republicans, on a regular basis, produce propaganda out of half truths in order to win an election and then at first opportunity instill a demand for war against countries that are simply less able to protect themselves. That is how Iraq occurred. The 'idea' of WMD was introduced to the people of the USA, it further terrorized them and the idea of invading Iraq would satiate that fear.
I believe that very same fear exists today in the USA electorate. It is a place where war is not far from dialogue.
Lone wolf attacks have been viewed as a wider war that needs to involve the middle east and a forever war. That is not the way to deal with faux fear. Feeling as though USA soldiers in the middle east are protecting the USA when the fact is it is making things worse is convenient for politics, but, not for the families of the fallen or those suffering from PTSD or horrible disabilities. "Feeling secure" because of weapons and soldier deployment is a very bad habit and completely baseless in it's need or its goal.
Some of this war mongering occurs in the Senate, but, the primary offender of fear based voting is the US House. At every turn.
Michael McCaul is a propagandist. An attempted lone wolf attack in the USA has been distorted to create fear among the electorate. This alone proves he is a propagandist and does not deserve to be re-elected if he is using hate and fear as the basis of the electorate's choice. He uses his position in Congress for political purposes, wasting his time paid for by the American people and is in violation of ethics rules.
Perhaps what needs to be put into effect is a swearing in of the Congressional Committees BEFORE the witness panel is sworn in for testimony. Such a procedure would be reassuring to the penalty for actions such as Mr. McCaul's today. It would also bring reassurance to the witnesses before the committee to know they will not be made to look as fools because they are 'cornered into denying lies by the Congressman." AH - he caught 'em.
I am dead serious. Find a way to swear in the Committee Members before they launch into a questioning of panels for testimony. I tell you what, since it is easy to prove a House Committee Chair is using his authority for propaganda, the people subpoenaed for testimony don't have a basis to comply with the subpoena because they will be smeared for political propaganda.
The American people are not paying taxes so their elections are corrupted by propaganda. If Congress can't take their positions seriously in swearing in a committee before they swear in the panel, there is no basis for the inquiry in the first place.
Bush had it right. Why swear in a panel when all the Congress is looking for are political photo ops?
Prosecutors said Arbabsiar was recruited by a cousin who was a senior official in the Quds Force, which in 2007 the Treasury Department designated a terrorist supporter, according to court papers. The group is part of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is closely aligned with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....
A Quds Force member and a cousin recruited violence toward Saudi Arabia by his relative in the USA. That is a lone wolf attack. It isn't a clandestine plot officiated by Iran.
The way McCaul speaks is the equivalent of holding Pakistan and Saudi Arabia responsible for San Bernardino. It is ridiculous.
This propaganda spewed across the US House hearing chamber and otherwise is EXACTLY what the electorate should realize as they place their ballots in 2016. We cannot plug into false words that will ultimately put the USA back into the venue of illegal and immoral wars.
The Republicans, on a regular basis, produce propaganda out of half truths in order to win an election and then at first opportunity instill a demand for war against countries that are simply less able to protect themselves. That is how Iraq occurred. The 'idea' of WMD was introduced to the people of the USA, it further terrorized them and the idea of invading Iraq would satiate that fear.
I believe that very same fear exists today in the USA electorate. It is a place where war is not far from dialogue.
Lone wolf attacks have been viewed as a wider war that needs to involve the middle east and a forever war. That is not the way to deal with faux fear. Feeling as though USA soldiers in the middle east are protecting the USA when the fact is it is making things worse is convenient for politics, but, not for the families of the fallen or those suffering from PTSD or horrible disabilities. "Feeling secure" because of weapons and soldier deployment is a very bad habit and completely baseless in it's need or its goal.
Some of this war mongering occurs in the Senate, but, the primary offender of fear based voting is the US House. At every turn.
Michael McCaul is a propagandist. An attempted lone wolf attack in the USA has been distorted to create fear among the electorate. This alone proves he is a propagandist and does not deserve to be re-elected if he is using hate and fear as the basis of the electorate's choice. He uses his position in Congress for political purposes, wasting his time paid for by the American people and is in violation of ethics rules.
Perhaps what needs to be put into effect is a swearing in of the Congressional Committees BEFORE the witness panel is sworn in for testimony. Such a procedure would be reassuring to the penalty for actions such as Mr. McCaul's today. It would also bring reassurance to the witnesses before the committee to know they will not be made to look as fools because they are 'cornered into denying lies by the Congressman." AH - he caught 'em.
I am dead serious. Find a way to swear in the Committee Members before they launch into a questioning of panels for testimony. I tell you what, since it is easy to prove a House Committee Chair is using his authority for propaganda, the people subpoenaed for testimony don't have a basis to comply with the subpoena because they will be smeared for political propaganda.
The American people are not paying taxes so their elections are corrupted by propaganda. If Congress can't take their positions seriously in swearing in a committee before they swear in the panel, there is no basis for the inquiry in the first place.
Bush had it right. Why swear in a panel when all the Congress is looking for are political photo ops?
