President Barack Obama hailed his recent dealings with Iran as “a success of diplomacy that hopefully we’ll be able to copy in the future.”
It appears leaders of the European Union strongly disagree.
The EU on Monday said it has extended sanctions against 82 Iranian officials until 2017 because of the human rights situation in the nation.
The 28-nation bloc has had asset freezes and travel bans in place against Iranians since 2011 because of perceived violations of human rights.
The measures came despite a recent improvement of relations linked to a nuclear deal between Western powers and Tehran, and leaves the Obama administration in a bind.
This isn’t the first political blow back on the administration’s dealings with Iran, either. As it seeks to implement, preserve and strengthen the landmark nuclear deal it negotiated with Iran, the administration is being buffeted by criticism from all sides: Iran, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, not to mention members of Congress, including some who supported the agreement.
Under the nuclear deal that took effect in January, Iran curtailed its nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in sanctions relief.
But Iran says the economic boon isn’t enough because of remaining U.S. economic penalties for its other behavior, and some officials have threatened to walk away from the deal.
Adding to their unease is the 2016 U.S. presidential election, in which the top Republican prospects have pledged to rip up the nuclear deal.
At the same time, Israel, its supporters and Arab nations are crying foul over Iran’s continued testing of ballistic missiles as well as its ongoing support for Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
They say Iran is as dangerous as ever. Many members of Congress agree and are demanding new sanctions.
While the administration says it remains vehemently opposed to Iran’s missile tests and destabilizing activities throughout the Middle East, it insists the nuclear deal has made Iran less of a threat. The cost of walking away from the deal, U.S. officials maintain, will be even more destabilization and a graver threat.
Thus, the U.S. has been thrust into a role of defending Iran on its nuclear deal compliance and condemning its other actions as it simultaneously promotes business with Iran in the context of the new leeway afforded by sanctions relief.
The administration has sent State Department and Treasury officials to try to explain the regulations, but questions remain. Some European leaders, notably French President Francois Hollande, have personally raised the matter with Obama, diplomats say.
U.S. lawmakers, many of whom opposed the nuclear deal on principle, have moved to prevent what they say is an administration overreach: a proposal to ease rules relating to the use of the dollar in third-party foreign currency exchanges in support of deals with Iran. Administration officials say such an easing is unnecessary because those transactions are allowed. Still, the suggestion of a change has Capitol Hill on edge.
Despite the uncertainty, the administration has refused so far to say what, if anything, it will do to clear the air.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Once the USA advocated for human rights. Today we stand for appeasement, the baby mama, baby daddy culture, able bodied folks foreign and domestic on welfare and staring into a smartphone.
True
With every passing day I feel like we need to just draw a line down the center and make 2 countries. Maybe the pre civil war borders weren’t such a bad thing.
If and only if, we can clean out the new country of liberals, mouthy snow birds (“Well this isn’t how we did it …where ever the heck it is they came from…) and confused Californians.
The US when it advocates for human rights has always used a double standard. While we denounced human rights abuses behind the Iron Curtain, we were silent about countries like Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s Chile, El Salvador ‘s death squads, Saudi Arabia’s persecution of religious minorities, etc
At least someone can see the truth. We and the british stomped on every country that wouldn’t play ball by our rules. Now they are stomping back the only way they can
@ Bobby: No excuse for these haters. The British oppressed my ancestors. However, how can you justify the middle east hater nations? They are aggressors and beyond brutal. They are stomping on each other and anyone who isn’t like them. No excuses for them. Folks 75 years ago made excuses for Hitler and Tojo’s barbarity.
Right on!!!
Perhaps the UN can send in observers for this election & put the kind of “democracy” we export into perspective.
The UN is incompetent, impotent and utterly corrupt! it won’t do ANYTHING constructive. it has zero power. Doesn’t the events over the last 20 years tell you anything? Does me, trash the whole thing and start over again!
Obama the know it all loose Canon leadership. Iran has never stopped saying Death To America they are our Enemy same as everyone in the whole Middle East( With the exception of Israel) Yet Israel is the only country in the Middle East our Muslim Brotherhood President HATES
President Obama had asked these morons in Europe to join him in fighting ISIS. They dragged their feet. Then France was hit by bullets from ISIS. Instead of confronting ISIS, these morons marched in streets to protest against ISIS. I just wondered how these morons would March against criminals. The heads of these countries had more guns and money to fight ISIS; instead marched. I could not believe it. Thank God Kerry was in Germany; but did not join the March. It was the stupidest March. And in this Iran issue. These morons were at the table with Kerry. They were quiet-May Kerry was too tall for them. Thank God we are going to elect Hillary to continue Obama legacy which has saved lives here and abroad.
Masanja you are a FOOL….
AMEN–Obama never had any intention of fighting ISIS and Hillary was in on the nuclear deal too. They are muslim sympathizers if not worse.
Any more jokes.
Jokes on us – S-300 missiles have just been deployed into Iran providing the high altitude defense and hence range they require to annihilate Syria should iranian republican guard be forced to withdraw from the leviathan – apparently, putin’s Syrian proxy Assad is out of steam so the Iranian guard will be the slave dog military occupier and assures control of the planned pipelines to pass from iran, kurd, leviathan area further keeping a lock on Europe and western sustainment ; Israel is now in range of Tehran as well; this frees up some of Russian navy cruise missile defense fleet which is much more expensive to operate than S-300’s land based making it deployable elsewhere; the S-300’s in Iran can then be moved to the leviathan to protect the current anti-crusades of immigrants into europe – putin uses his proxies well; the S-300’s also provide the range to reach nuclear Pakistan serving the protection Iran needs as well as have the geo-political strength to control/threaten the flow of oil from the persian gulf while, simultaneously protect the pipeline they will be supplying oil through that goes through Afghanistan and Pakistan and then north from Pakistan to western china in the himalayas. Please be advised that the Me Kong river all the way to its source in China is being dammed up for power generation,etc. The opportunity for the pacific trade agreement is being parsed as we sleep acording to the delinquencies of Obama’s playbook and agreements he made w/putin and XI – bet he retires to singapore as he leaves the WEST in ruins..
Hey, don’t blame Europe for not fighting Isis. We have wiped there noses and pampered them since WW2 so why should they worry about Isis when they have stupid Americans to protect them?
I say turn the US into a fortress and take no prisoners. NOW, THAT WOULD BE CHANGE.
I’m going to guess they drag feet because they know damn well who created the Isis mess!
Your and idiot and do not understand obama and hilderbeast caused the rise of isis.
Masanja, What an assinine statement. Obummer and Hellary are two of the worst things ever to happen to the USA. (Throw in Kerry in that bunch too) I only hope that whoever replaces the islamic traitor in chief will do what it takes to right this ship. TRUMP 2016
its about time that someone finally told our idiot in chief about the dealings with iran every other leader in the world has told him that dealing with iran is n the same as making a deal with satan but he cannot be convinced that he cannot do it by himself the real issue is that he has made the deal and the end result will cost every American because the Iranians will be sure they get their pound of flesh but his problem is that he just does not care if americans get hurt in the process it is just 1 he isn’t interested we have had many presidents make bad deals in the past but they were at least a little more considerate of their citizens and their nation Lincoln did this when he took on the civil war, but Lincoln was a very caring and honest president and he did not endanger his people Obama is nothing but arrogant and he will do anything to be noticed no matter the cost either through money or man power
On what planet or what universe did you fall from? Obama created, armed, trained, supported, and warned ISIS. Continue his policies? I can only hope it is you and your loved ones that reap the benefits of the ISIS “Love” currently being imported in mass by Obama. You know, bombings, beheadings. drowned in cages, doused in gasoline and burned in a cage. You’re probably already Muslim and in a sleeper cell anyway. Never mind.
I agree with you completely and only wish we could get rid of this corrupt government and political hacks.
Also this PC crap needs to go away get some common sense people in charge
obummer has to go now please
Europe better watch out. Ine more time they call Baracky Stupid over Iran, he’ll label them “RACISTS”
Exactly , he has done so many stupid things why label him for just one of them !! Maybe him and his butt Michael/Michell can find a nice prison that so many nations want to put them in !!
All I can say is I hope the USA can last until this nutcase is out of the white house and someone in there that is willing to uphold the laws and defend this great country from all enemies foreign and domestic. Here is hoping God will protect our country until than because this president sure isn’t.
We have had the 2 worst Presidents in a row in the History of the USA. W Bush was a HORRIBLE President and Obama is WORSE than W BUSH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C K Johnson, You are dead wrong about George W Bush. I watched him and how he handled the attack on US soil. Everyone wanted him to kick ass on the terrorist and he did. Now Carter and Obama I agree
are the worst of the worst.
I disagree. obama has taken the title away from Carter. He took it and made sure he would keep it with even more stupid ideas that everyone will suffer in the USA except a few he deems ok.
Check Heidi Cruz’s professional associates
I pray that every night. I try to leave it in God’s hands but then catch myself telling who I DON’T want in there. Hillary at the top of the list because I just see more of what we have now. I can’t trust her when she has been caught in lies but Benguase I can’t forget. I know I probably spelled it wrong.
You did! It’s Benghazi, you’re welcome!
This community organizer has done all he can to ruin our country. And……he has done it very very well. I wonder at times if this is all a dream. I don’t recognize the country I fought for during Vietnam. This man is…..the WORST president in my lifetime and I go back to Eisenhour. I have no other alternative than to pray that someone can get elected to and get this mess turned around. He can’t leave office soon enough!
his goal is to destroy the US it started in Chicago with his mentor a traitor
Chicago lost 3000 millionaires to the suburbs b/c of the community Obama organized there;. These very same organized individuals control it through violence in the streets causing the tax base to erode and then cry the blues to reform it w/federal dollars just like Detroit which has a strong Arab and black muslim community; this is agenda 21 being force fed in the amercan inner cities.- the violence has not happend in LA to the same degree b/c they support the noose that will eventually hang them and are aleady 3rd world so nothing to see there. . Ferguson will be the same and on it goes.
Maybe someone in this world has some sense.
Obama has been wrong on every issue but that is his goal.
Bottom line is that Obama is a dip shit and who knows why he does the stupid things he does. Our relationships with other countries has gone to shit since he’s been in office..
THE WHOLE WORLD RECOGNIZES THAT THIS PRESIDENT IS AN IDIOT!!!!!! HE’S SO BUSY “BOWING” TO HIS ISLAMIC COMMERADES THAT HE CAN’T SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING UNDER HIS NOSE. (YET, HE DOESN’T MIND SCREWING THE AMERICAN CITIZEN). DISGUSTED!!!!!
Be patient my friends and pray! Right before Obama was elected, God said “I’m going to give America what she wants.” Ever since he has been in office we have been reaping the fruit of of what we have chosen. It was a sad day when I heard that. Many of us didn’t vote for him. And many, including Christians didn’t vote at all. Shame on them. Many who voted for him got a surprise, they didn’t get what they thought they were getting. Thank God some have learned. God is gracious and He has now seen fit, since many have learned the error of our their ways, and because of those of us who have cried out to Him for change, He is going to pull us out of this and give us the one and this one’s administration to pull us out and He’s going to bless this nation again!
Obama is not an idiot. His program was to destroy the United States, and he is doing a fine job of it because of the democrats and the “elite” republicans. Everything he has done while in office has been a disaster for our country. Ruination for the economy, the morality, the military and defense, the medical system, the race relations. No, he is not an idiot. These were all planned schemes with expected results.
I agree.
Me too.
Obama knows exactly what and why he is doing these things. Obama is a MUSLIM and was raised to hate America, He has been taking the country We The People built and is tearing America apart piece by piece. There is no one who loves the USA that would sit and listen to for 20 years. A man who repeated it is not God Bless America it is God Damn America !
I agree with this one C K Johnson
Get rid of the trash in the White House! And don’t forget a fumigation and complete restoration to get rid of the stink!
Take heart my friends. God is going to pull us out of this! Right before Obama was elected, God said, “I’m going to give America what she has asked for.” Americans got a surprise! Obama wasn’t what they thought he was. Many of us did not vote for him. And many didn’t vote at all, including many Christians. Shame on them. However because many of us have cried out to God for change and because He is merciful and gracious, He now is going to turn America around. We knew that for 20 years Obama was a member of a church that the Pastor cursed America and yet people totally disregarded that! God brought all that to light and people still insisted on having Obama. So for all these years America has been reaping the fruit of her choices. But now that people have learned and because of God’s grace and because Christians have been crying out to Him, he says “now I will pull America out of this through the one I have chosen for president and his administration!”
The president is not the big problem. We have got to go into the government. The government is what we have to attack.The are the ones.without the government he could have made this mess.Change the government. The what I have always been told be the old people of my country. When you attack the government you attack the president.
This IS exactly what I thought would happen. I am glad that another country sees obama for what he is!!!!!! TRUMP 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right on.
Anything Iran or North Korea launches should be shot out of the sky by the U.S. Maybe then EU would respect us again. I don’t care what it is… They are a threat to the world and should be treated as such. Thanks to Obama and Kerry; Iran now has $150
billion to buy nuke’s from North Korea.
So we know that Baracky the Stupid International DEAL maker is always WRONG….Will he call anyone calling ‘STUPID” a “RACIST???
In this instance I think Obama is right to try to call a halt to hostilities with this overture to Iran – we in the West must stop this bombastic response to other nations in an effort to force their acquiescence to our will – that is the very negation of diplomacy and not the way to make friends and influence nations. We are paying an appalling price for our policies in the devastation of the Middle East. Israel should not be allowed to dictate America and the West’s response to Arab nations; and it is essential we do all in our power to remedy the festering sore created in Gaza and ensure decent treatment for the Palestinians and a secure state of their own. The latter measure alone would go a long way to improve our relations with Middle Eastern nations.
Idiot….
Sure is.
The Iran deal is another monument to the total incompetence of this president. Barack Obama is the worst president in American history.
The problem with this country is the greatest generation is almost gone and has been replaced by their grandchildren indoctrinated in school and by the leftist teachers and media to be PC sheep . Add in , transexual, gays, , the browing of america by the democratic party to collect votes by illegals and their spawn , the welfare state, jobs going overseas, weak sisters in Washington, the supreme court not congress or the people legalizing abortion , gay marriage , minority set asides, for jobs, college, law school , medical school etc . pre op transgender men with 9 inch johnsons in the ladies rooms with young girls . You have to ask if those who died and fought in WW@, Korea, Vietnam would have done so if they saw where this country is now
You are so right. It started in the schools in the late 50’s and early 60’s and has gotten progressively worse. Now they are attacking free speech and religion. McCarthy was right when he tried to oust the Communists. There are so many things wrong with our country and the government now that it doesn’t look hopeful for us–maybe a revolution could help.
It may be the only way now.
Yes. I am afraid you are right.
I JUST HOPE AND PRAY THAT OBAMA IS IMPEACHED REAL SOON . HE DESPISES AMERICA AND WANTS TO DESTROY US ! WHAT EVERYBODY SHOULD DO IS SEND YOUR CONGRESSMAN OR SENATOR A LETTER OR EVEN CALL THEM AND TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL ! OBAMA HAS TO GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He should have been impeached long ago considering all of the unconstitutional executive orders he has issued.
And if the RNC and the so called right wing media had put half the effort in defeating Obama when he was running as they are doing to Trump, he wouldn’t have been elected and we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in.
Right Jackie.
BHO hyper actively passive on Iran, his new friend! They can do NO wrong!
They may already have the nukes from N-Korea!
Deception works best with ignorant people and they are LEGIONS in the US.
The end-goal of the fascists of the left is the enslavement of the human spirit for the benefit of supposedly the masses but in reality only for the elite few. They call this: Social Justice. Ole, Ole!
finally some serious resistance to our perverse presidents terrorist support plans. Not that the E.U is much better,,but i’ll take the resistance wherever I can get it . Since we seem so incapable here in the U.S
Calling for an overthrow of the Obama administration this late is ridicules. Just make sure that the person who replaces him is a PURE AMERICAN. I mean that both in blood and brain. As an old man I am discouraged by what what I see in the teens and pre-teens when it comes to political education. Education in history is piss-poor as well. And let’s not forget SPEELING. I believe that, in order to overcome the difficulties Obama has gotten us into, we must start teaching the youngsters American History as it happened. Not how it should have happened. Another point that I am unhappy about is that our black president doesn’t want any negative comments about blacks. But, ever hear anything good come out of his mouth about Israel or Jews? I haven’t. I wonder if he knows how Israel came to exist. That is the country we know of today as Israel. And yes, I was alive when that happened. The Jews of Europe did not choose the area nor did they attack it and take it over. So please don’t vote for Hillary Imbarck Oclinton. Thanks for reading. Have a nice day
Europe to Obama: You’re dead wrong on Iran
April 12, 2016 51 Comments
Well it looks to me like Europe is “Racist” lmbfwao.
Well, there it is. Obama’s fraudulent legacy. The EU sees it, the surrounding countries in the Middle East see it. Obama and his moron Secretary of State were scammed. Obama and Kerry take the meaning of the word “naïve” to new levels. Will Rogers was quoted as saying…”the man was born ignorant, and he’s lost ground ever since”. I think this applies to our current president.
President Obama has absolutely no credibility with me. He lost it a long time ago. He is the great Master of Deception. I believe nothing he has to say and do not trust him at all.
Don’t forget Bill Clinton (thdnpresodent) was the one who put forth a BILL called the URUGUAY ROUND AGREEMENT, that started all of our jobs headed for other countries, while protecting his and all of congresses pension plans except the working blue collar. That means every paid goverment worker can put their retirement money wherever they want even their pocket or under their steps. But not you, you must put it into a broker account called a I.R.A. for full five (5) years. Or you will be subject to a penalties either state or federal (I.R.S.) of the orginal amount of retirement funds if you take any money before you rollover onto an I.R.A. account!
Our crooks took care of the selves on the latest issue, but also gave themselves a raise at the same time they cut th cost of living (C.O.L.A.) for Social Security .
Later the next year Obama had a base raise of Social Security, but he stated that that raise was literally woud have no effect due to tax increases on fuels and others.
News flash: this devil worshiping/asshole muslim in the WH is ALWAYS wrong. Most clueless idiot on the planet! Never listen to what he says, but just watch what he does.
Maybe the best thing to come out of this is for Europe to start looking out for their own selfish interests. Don’t rely on the US for everything. We can’t afford to be world’s policeman any longer. We’ve bled and rusted our military in the Middle East for too long. I agree with Ron Paul on this issue. We need to bring most our military troops home. Just defend the US.
All this means nothing, our elections mean nothing. What we are in for folks is an extreme overload on the U.S.A.. Millions of new mouths to feed at a time when California and much of the west will soon be declared a disaster area and uninhabitable by humans because of a drought. This will force millions and millions east with mexico and the drug cartel taking over abandoned land claiming we stole it in the first place. One year from now you will not recognize the U.S.A., if it exists at all. Stock up and load up or prepare to live in government camps, you have nothing but liberals to blame for importing our disaster.