The devastation done by the Biden administration will take a decade or
more to repair.

'How The Biden/Harris Admin Helped Iran Get To The Brink Of A Nuclear
Bomb'

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'America and the world desperately need a strong and decisive U.S.
president to undo the damage done to American and global security by the
Biden/Harris administration’s disastrous Iran policies.

By Fred Fleitz
October 11, 2024
Iran has made enormous progress in its nuclear weapons program during
the Biden/Harris administration and reportedly can now enrich enough
weapons-grade uranium to fuel nine nuclear bombs in one month. Although
Iran may be nine months to a year away from having an operational
nuclear weapon, recent attacks by Iran and Israel against each other’s
territory have raised concerns that Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear
program could lead to a nuclear war in the Middle East.

Biden/Harris administration officials have tried to blame President
Trump for the advances in Iran’s nuclear program because he withdrew
from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the JCPOA. Democratic Governor Tim
Walz made this claim during the October 1 vice presidential debate when
he said, “There had been a coalition of nations that had boxed Iran’s
nuclear program in . . . Donald Trump pulled that program and put
nothing else in its place.”

This is absolutely false. The huge advances in Iran’s nuclear weapons
program are the result of major flaws in the JCPOA and a series of
terrible national security policy decisions, including repeated attempts
to appease Iran, by the Obama and Biden administrations.

The first of these bad policy decisions was when the Obama
administration conceded to Iran the “right” to enrich uranium for
peaceful purposes, such as nuclear medicine and nuclear reactor fuel.

This decision reversed the positions of prior Republican and Democratic
administrations who believed Iran could not be trusted to enrich uranium
for peaceful purposes because of covert Iranian efforts to establish a
nuclear weapons program and because it is easy to reconfigure uranium
centrifuges supposedly constructed for peaceful purposes to produce
weapons-grade nuclear fuel.

Allowing Iran to enrich its own uranium for peaceful purposes has never
made economic sense due to a glut of reactor fuel and nuclear medicine
on the world market. Iran also does not need nuclear power due to its
vast oil and natural gas reserves. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu explained this to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell in an October 2014
interview when he said Iran’s centrifuges “are only good for one thing:
to make bomb-grade material.”

The JCPOA Was a Dangerous Fraud

The Obama administration’s dangerous uranium enrichment concession to
Iran was enshrined in the flawed 2015 JCPOA agreement which, allowed
Iran to enrich uranium to reactor-grade and develop advanced
centrifuges. In effect, this gave Iran the world’s blessing to continue
to develop a uranium enrichment program whose only practical purpose was
to make nuclear weapons fuel.

But it gets worse. The JCPOA lifted sanctions on Iran and provided it
with $150 billion in sanctions relief. This included $1.7 billion in
“pallets of cash” that the U.S. secretly flew to Iran in small planes as
ransom to release five innocent Americans being held in Iranian prisons.
A related UN resolution imposed limited, short-lived sanctions against
Iranian conventional arms transfers, which expired in 2020, and missile
transfers, which expired in 2023.

The JCPOA has a weak inspection regime that Iran did not cooperate with.
This inspection regime was further weakened by secret side deals,
discovered by then-Rep. Mike Pompeo and Senator Tom Cotton, that allowed
Iran to evade inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA). Obama officials reportedly wrote the secret side deals and
refused to share them with Congress.

And to top off this all off, there was substantial cheating on the JCPOA
by Iran. This included clandestine efforts to acquire illicit nuclear
technology and equipment, violating JCPOA restrictions on advanced
centrifuge development, and excess production of heavy water.

In 2018, a huge cache of documents on Iran’s nuclear weapons program
stolen by Israel provided evidence of massive Iranian cheating on the
JCPOA, including several undeclared sites where nuclear weapons work had
been conducted since 2015. IAEA inspection of two of these sites found
evidence of enriched uranium particles, which proved covert nuclear
weapons work had occurred at these locations.

In addition, Iran quietly worked to develop advanced centrifuge designs
and parts in violation of the JCPOA between 2015 and 2020. This allowed
Iran to start deploying advanced centrifuges in 2021. This included
completing a factory in July 2018 to make carbon fiber rotors for
advanced centrifuge machines.

These and other extremely serious weaknesses of the JCPOA are why Donald
Trump justifiably called it “the worst deal ever” and why he withdrew
the United States from this agreement in 2018.

Iran said it would no longer honor its JCPOA commitments after Trump
withdrew from the agreement and began to slowly back out of JCPOA limits
in 2019 and 2020. However, Iran did little to ramp up its uranium
enrichment program until January 2021—weeks before Joe Biden’s
inauguration.

The reason why there was not a surge in Iran’s nuclear weapons program
during President Trump’s term after he withdrew from the JCPOA was
because Iranian leaders were afraid of how Trump would respond. The
global American deterrence Trump established helped keep Iran and other
U.S. adversaries in check during his presidency.

Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program Takes Off Under Biden/Harris
Administration

It is clear that Iran’s leaders were not afraid of Joe Biden. They saw a
new American president desperate to revive the JCPOA and who would
resume the Obama administration’s appeasement policies. The results have
been a catastrophe for global security, with huge advances in Iran’s
nuclear weapons program. Iran also gained at least $100 billion in
additional revenue during the Biden administration because it refused to
enforce U.S. oil sanctions. Most of this oil has been sold to China.
Iran spent this windfall on its military, nuclear, and missile programs
as well as to fund its terrorist proxy groups: Hamas, Hezbollah, the
Houthis, and Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq.

The Biden administration took office in January 2021 determined to
renegotiate the JCPOA to make it “longer and stronger.” Iranian
officials repeatedly said they would not agree to changes to the JCPOA,
but they participated in fruitless talks in Vienna to restore the JCPOA
until March 2022. Not only did Iran refuse to negotiate in good faith in
these talks, a Russian ambassador, with the assistance of a Chinese
ambassador, ran the Vienna talks because Iranian diplomats refused to
meet in the same room with their U.S. counterparts.

Iran significantly stepped up its nuclear weapons program while
multilateral talks to revive the JCPOA were underway between April 2021
and March 2022. This included deploying advanced centrifuges in
February and April 2021 and producing uranium metal in February 2021.

The most serious development was when Iran announced in November 2021
that it had enriched uranium to the 60% U-235 level for the first time.
60%-enriched uranium can be further enriched to 90% (weapons-grade) in
about a week.

Biden officials worked hard to convince Iran to agree to a new nuclear
deal by offering a series of dangerous concessions. This included
proposing to take Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps off the U.S. list of
terrorist organizations. Several members of the U.S. negotiating team
resigned in late 2021 because they believed the concessions being
offered to Iran were excessive and would lead to a bad nuclear
agreement.

Multilateral talks with Iran to revive the JCPOA broke down in March
2022 after Russia threatened to block a new nuclear deal unless its
trade with Iran was exempted from U.S. and European sanctions imposed on
Russia due to its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

After the multilateral talks broke down, the Biden/Harris administration
used Oman as an intermediary to negotiate a secret, oral, and unwritten
agreement with Iran. Biden Administration critics claimed this was done
to evade Congress’s oversight of this agreement.

The secret deal was described as an interim agreement with major U.S.
concessions. These reportedly included freezing Iran’s enrichment of
uranium to 60%. This concession meant the Biden/Harris administration
agreed to accept Iran enriching to the dangerous 60% level. Iran was
also allowed to keep its nuclear infrastructure, including advanced
uranium centrifuges, and permitted to continue to develop this
technology.

Iran reportedly agreed under the deal to stop its proxy groups from
attacking U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq and to cooperate with IAEA
investigations of its nuclear program. Iran never abided by either of
these provisions.

On 10/13/2024 5:48 AM, John Smyth wrote:
> The devastation done by the Biden administration will take a decade or
> more to repair.

Give all credit where due. Obama & the Clintons started it.

> 'How The Biden/Harris Admin Helped Iran Get To The Brink Of A Nuclear
> Bomb'
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> <https://amgreatness.com/2024/10/11/how-the-biden-harris-admin-helped-iran-get-to-the-brink-of-a-nuclear-bomb/>
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> 'America and the world desperately need a strong and decisive U.S.
> president to undo the damage done to American and global security by the
> Biden/Harris administration’s disastrous Iran policies.
>
> By Fred Fleitz
> October 11, 2024
> Iran has made enormous progress in its nuclear weapons program during
> the Biden/Harris administration and reportedly can now enrich enough
> weapons-grade uranium to fuel nine nuclear bombs in one month. Although
> Iran may be nine months to a year away from having an operational
> nuclear weapon, recent attacks by Iran and Israel against each other’s
> territory have raised concerns that Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear
> program could lead to a nuclear war in the Middle East.
>
> Biden/Harris administration officials have tried to blame President
> Trump for the advances in Iran’s nuclear program because he withdrew
> from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the JCPOA. Democratic Governor Tim
> Walz made this claim during the October 1 vice presidential debate when
> he said, “There had been a coalition of nations that had boxed Iran’s
> nuclear program in . . . Donald Trump pulled that program and put
> nothing else in its place.”
>
> This is absolutely false. The huge advances in Iran’s nuclear weapons
> program are the result of major flaws in the JCPOA and a series of
> terrible national security policy decisions, including repeated attempts
> to appease Iran, by the Obama and Biden administrations.
>
> The first of these bad policy decisions was when the Obama
> administration conceded to Iran the “right” to enrich uranium for
> peaceful purposes, such as nuclear medicine and nuclear reactor fuel.

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V.
Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its
precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian
Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy
agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining
stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made
Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr.
Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium
supply chain.

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the
Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who
would like to be the next one.

At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining
industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of
former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group
built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that
would become known as Uranium One.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the
world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium
production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a
strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had
to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number
of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually
signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife,
Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three
separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow
of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman
used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35
million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the
Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama
White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to
the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a
majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a
Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin
that was promoting Uranium One stock.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html