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2015-03-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian Defector: 'U.S. Negotiating Team Mainly There to Speak on Iran's Behalf'
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Posted by Fred 2015-03-29 11:24|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Most bidnessmen, be they American or Lebanese, are familiar with "Deal Fever", where you get so focused on the idea of making a deal that you become willing to overlook serious flaws in the deal you're making. (Underling: "The FDA just said that this company's product is lethally toxic to all carbon-based life forms. Are we sure we want to buy them?" Boss: "Point No. 1, no problem, we'll just dump it in the Martian market. Point No. 2, shuddup.") The kindest interpretation I can put on all this is that Champ and his underlings have a really bad case of Deal Fever. Possibly a terminal case.
Posted by Matt 2015-03-29 12:23||   2015-03-29 12:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Deal or not, it's no deal without senatte confrmation, and is only good as long as Barky remains in office.
Posted by badanov 2015-03-29 12:56|| http://www.chriscovert.net  2015-03-29 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Best of all, it's an "unwritten" deal, so it means whatever Champ and the Iranians say about it today. Or tomorrow. Or yesterday.
Posted by Steve White 2015-03-29 13:12||   2015-03-29 13:12|| Front Page Top

#4 It is becoming more and more obvious that this is all Obama's "leading from behind strategy"
He is trying to goad Israel to attack Iran possibly using its nuclear arsenal.
What else could be meant by calling Netanyahu a coward, and distancing the US from Israel?
How better to do this than signing an unacceptable agreement?
Israel might be forced to pull the West's chestnuts out of the Iranian's fire. And the US would apparently be totally innocent!
Posted by Grins Snese4215 2015-03-29 13:46||   2015-03-29 13:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Israel might be forced to pull the West's chestnuts out of the Iranian's fire.

Obama is not Reagan.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-29 13:48||   2015-03-29 13:48|| Front Page Top

#6 #2 - Logan Act! Traitor! Spewing facts!
Posted by Frank G 2015-03-29 13:52||   2015-03-29 13:52|| Front Page Top

#7 By the way the Mullah's behavior seems to be based on their worries about the future. Iran's birth rate (1.7 children per woman) is not sufficient to sustain itself very long. They need something new for the country to survive.
Also they would be insane to attack Israel which is the one country able to and prepared to destroy Iran.
Their real threat, as everyone knows, is to its Arab neighbors, and to Europe. The latter are the ones who need to prevent a nuclear Iran, and the Arab neighbors know it.
Posted by Grins Snese4215 2015-03-29 13:57||   2015-03-29 13:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Also they would be insane to attack Israel which is the one country able to and prepared to destroy Iran.

Oft times religious fanaticism isn't "sane."

Read up on the mullahs. Start with Ayatollah Khomeini.
Posted by Pappy 2015-03-29 15:01||   2015-03-29 15:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Why do you think they call them Mad Mullahs, Grins?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-03-29 15:01||   2015-03-29 15:01|| Front Page Top

#10 In fact they may *want* Israel to nuke them in order to force the 12th Iman (Madai?) from his hiding place in some well or something.

They're willing to sacrifice a few million to achieve that end.
Posted by CrazyFool 2015-03-29 15:04||   2015-03-29 15:04|| Front Page Top

#11 State has been representing foreign interests for decades rather than that of the average non-connected non-Ivy League American. A large rogue unregistered foreign lobbyist concern. Why wouldn't they sell out knuckle dragging, gun clinging, bible thumping inbred flyovers?
Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-29 17:27||   2015-03-29 17:27|| Front Page Top

#12 ..of course, when they royally screw up they ask those same people for fork over their sons and daughters (not theirs mind you) to spill their blood and guts to stabilize everything.
Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-29 17:28||   2015-03-29 17:28|| Front Page Top

#13 ValJar should swing at the end of a traitor's rope for this kind of crap.
Posted by OldSpook 2015-03-29 19:04||   2015-03-29 19:04|| Front Page Top

#14 It stinks like gutter compost after the first thaw.
Posted by swksvolFF 2015-03-29 19:24||   2015-03-29 19:24|| Front Page Top

#15 OWG Co-Superpower siblings Amerika + Iran being loyal to one another.

Plus SSSSSHHHH ... CCCCCCCC ditto Russia + China, etc.

But youse didn't hear it from them.

D *** NG IT, DATS AL BUNDY'S STORY + HE'S STICKING TO IT!
Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-29 23:02||   2015-03-29 23:02|| Front Page Top

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