- Mon Nov 25, 2013 12:25 pm
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Carlos
The United States released $8 billion in frozen assets to Iran on Sunday in a move meant to ensure Tehran’s compliance with a nuclear pact signed over the weekend, according to top Iranian officials.It's called treason by our Government against our citizens and allies. Obama knows Iran won't keep it's promises and he knows Iran will use the freed up money to expedite their nuclear weapons program. Obama hates Israel so much he's trying to level the playing field between Muslims and Christians just like he's trying to redistribute America's wealth not only within America but across the world. Obama understands what will happen and he will lie and use deception to achieve his agenda, once his agenda is put in place he feels we will have to live with it, if that's not clear to you by now...you're an idiot!
Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht confirmed on Monday morning that the U.S. government had unfrozen $8 billion in assets that had been previously blocked by the Obama administration.
Prior to the release of the $8 billion, Iran's government had shut down many of their productions sites due to lack of funding and the crippling effects of sanctions, most of which have now been lifted. “The agreement will open a new path towards Iran,” Alinaqi Khamoushi, the former head of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce said on Sunday as he announced the release by the United States of some $8 billion in assets, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
Nobakht confirmed the figure early Monday during a briefing with reporters in Tehran.
“The agreement will ease the anti-Iran sanctions, which will have significant impacts on the Iranian economy,” the state-run Fars News Agency quoted him as saying. Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif, who helped ink the deal, praised it for recognizing Iran’s right to enrich uranium, a key sticking point that had delayed the deal until Saturday evening.
“The [nuclear] program has been recognized and the Iranian people’s right to use nuclear technology and as an inalienable right has been recognized and countries are necessitated not to create any obstacle on its way,” Zarif told reporters over the weekend.
“The program will continue, and all the sanctions and violations against the Iranian nation under the pretext of the nuclear program will be removed gradually,” he added.
Over the next six months, Iran will see “the full removal of all [United Nations] Security Council, unilateral and multilateral sanctions, while the country’s enrichment program will be maintained,” Zarif said.
The Fordo and Natanz nuclear sites will also continue to run, he said.
“None of the enrichment centers will be closed and Fordo and Natanz will continue their work and the Arak heavy water [nuclear reactor] program will continue in its present form and no material [enriched uranium stockpiles] will be taken out of the country and all the enriched materials will remain inside the country,” Zarif said. “The current sanctions will move towards decrease, no sanctions will be imposed and Iran’s financial resources will return.”
A senior advisor to the Saudi royal family has accused the United States of deceiving the oil rich kingdom in striking the nuclear accord with Iran and said Riyadh would follow an independent foreign policy.
John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, sought to placate Israel over the Iran nuclear deal, insisting it would make America's key ally in the Middle East safer over the next six months.
With Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, denouncing the agreement as an "historic mistake," Mr Kerry issued an assurance that the US was "not being led down the primrose path" by Iran and he personally has Iran's assurances they won't use nuclear weapons.
"The deal is the beginning and first step. It leads us into the negotiation so that we guarantee that while we are negotiating for the dismantling, while we are negotiating for the tougher positions, they will not grow their programme and their capacity to threaten Israel. Israel will actually gain a larger breathing space in terms of the breakout capacity of Iran and now they have needed funding to complete their weapons."
Republican Senator Mark Kirk said: "This deal provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism with billions of needed dollars in exchange for promises and cosmetic concessions that don't freeze or roll back its nuclear infrastructure."
"Today the world became a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world made a significant step in obtaining the most dangerous weapons in the world," Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday, calling the deal a "historic mistake. The fact that the United States would undo sanctions and provide Iran billions in frozen funds based upon promises they have never kept in the past is mind-boggling bazaar. "
He said Israel was not bound by the agreement, and reiterated Israel's right to "defend itself by itself," a veiled reference to a possible military strike against Iran.
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