From Joshua Pundit:
US intelligence officials have now revealed that during the Iran nuclear
negotiations, North Korea has sent several shipments of advanced
missile components to the Iranian regime in violation of UN sanctions -
and that the Obama Administration hid the violations from the UN.
Since September more than two shipments of missile parts have been
monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies as they transited from North
Korea to Iran, said officials familiar with intelligence reports who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
Details of the arms shipments were included in President Obama’s daily
intelligence briefings and officials suggested information about the
transfers was kept secret from the United Nations, which is in charge of
monitoring sanctions violations.
Critics of the U.S.-led nuclear framework agreement reached in
Switzerland earlier this month have said one major deficiency of the
accord is its failure to address Iran’s missile program, considered a
key nuclear delivery system for the Islamist regime.
CIA spokesman Ryan Trapani declined to comment on the missile component
shipments, citing a policy of not discussing classified information . . . . . . No wonder the Iranians insisted that their ballistic missiles program
was off the table in any negotiations. Why the president agreed to it is
another matter entirely, especially since he had to have known the
sanctions he kept boasting about were being grossly violated.
U.N. sanctions imposed in 2009 on North Korea’s nuclear and missile
tests prohibit the export of missiles and related technology, and
obviously the president didn't want to make an issue of that either,
even if it meant deceiving the UN and the P5+1. (you will want to read the full article, linked above).
And when the "agreement" is reached, it will not be in writing; Kerry will insist that it is not a binding treaty (he has already made that rather stupid admission). More than this, Kerry has been instructed by Obama to allow Iran to store it's nuclear material in underground bunkers, preventing their destruction by either Israel or the other Arab nations in the region (none of them support this "peace" effort). And, in June, if not another failed deadline, this Administration will boast about the "peace accord" with the same feckless ineptness that went into its brag about Yemen and Somalia and the "death of al Qaeda" and the J.V. status of ISIS and the declaration that Iraq was "strong, stable and sovereign."
Editor's notes: As you read, make note of the four broken deadlines already experienced by the Obama/Kerry cabal.
New York Times reports.
The Obama administration and Congress have clashed over bills to
impose new sanctions on Iran or to require Senate ratification of any
nuclear deal. However, the Iranians appear to have treated the March 31
date as merely an opportunity to drag talks out further–this time, until
a deadline of July 1.
When the extension of talks was announced last year–the third new
deadline in a process that was supposed to last no more than six months
when first announced in late 2013–there were two deadlines reported. One
was March 1, 2015, the deadline for a “political framework agreement.”
The other was July 1, for “final agreement including annexes,” according to a CNN report at the time. However, the political framework agreement was always vaguely defined, and later extended.
The West has attempted to negotiate with Iran for years. Iran’s
refusal to obey international norms and treaties to which it had already
committed led to six UN Security Council resolutions banning all
nuclear enrichment activity.
When he came to office, President Barack Obama treated prior
negotiations as if they had never happened, and sought new talks with
the regime. Israeli officials warned that Iran would simply use new
talks to buy more time to develop its nuclear capabilities.
And thus it proved to be. Under the present negotiations–which
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “historic mistake,”
and the French government once called a “sucker’s deal”–Iran has bought
time again and again.
The Obama administration played up the March deadline as if it would
produce a written agreement, perhaps to buy time as Congress
began questioning the emerging details of the likely deal.
Iran, however, has played Obama, once again, for a fool.