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WHITE HOUSE 'STUNNING IN ITS DUPLICITY' ON IRAN

'Deal' with rogue regime in doubt as Rouhani says sanctions must vanish immediately

The deal between Western powers including the United States and Iran over that nation’s nuclear program was touted as a triumph for Barack Obama, an accomplishment by Secretary of State John Kerry and the only foundation available for the future of the world.

Only it wasn’t really a deal, apparently.

For example, The Jerusalem Post reported that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani confirmed that any final deal must provide that sanctions be lifted immediately.

“We will not sign any deal unless all sanctions are lifted on the same day … We want a win-win deal for all parties involved in the nuclear talks,” he said.

But in the same report was the stipulation from Washington, through Obama spokesman Josh Earnest, that the U.S. would not budge from its position that such sanctions relief had to be phased in – to incentivize Iran to comply.

“You can’t start talking about relieving sanctions until we’ve reached agreement about how we’re going to shut down every pathway they have to a nuclear weapon,” he said.

The “deal” was announced over last weekend, a couple of days after a deadline that had been set for negotiators to reach agreement. They then reset that time clock so that the deadline now is June.

With much more to be discussed, apparently.

The RedState blog lamented the fact that the Obama White House appeared not to be able to tell the truth.

There, it quoted a statement that “American officials acknowledge they did not inform the Iranians in advance of all the ‘parameters’ the United States would make public in an effort to lock in the progress made so far…”

“‘We talked to them and told them that we would have to say some things,’ said a senior administration official who could not be identified under the protocol for briefing reporters. ‘We didn’t show them the paper. We didn’t show them the whole list,’” the report said.

“This is stunning in its duplicity. Not only is Obama keeping Congress in the dark about the negotiations but [he] is deliberately lying to Congress as it pushes to finalize the agreement,” RedState said.

The blog also cited differing reports on what inspections would be allowed. “No such agreement has been made,” one Iranian military leader said when asked about what U.S. officials said would be happening regarding inspections of military locations.

Fox News reported Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “who has final say on all state matters, tore into the U.S. in remarks published on his official website and on his Twitter account.”

The report documented that Khamenei tweeted what the U.S. was saying about the deal – the American fact sheet – was wrong.

In his words, the fact sheet details were “contrary to what was agreed.”

“I’m really worried as the other side is into lying and breaching promises,” he said.

While State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke, according to Fox, said Thursday the Obama administration statements are accurate, the point may not be whether the U.S. thinks Obama is being accurate, but what the Iranians believe.

Rathke also admitted, Fox said, he could not say if Iran could actually meet the requirements of the agreement.

What was announced was called a “framework” for agreement, but several U.S. lawmakers have told Fox they question what actually happened, given the public conflict between the sides.

“As each new day reveals a new disagreement, it’s increasingly clear that Iran, in fact, failed to reach agreement with the United States and its partners on a political framework that addresses all parameters of a comprehensive agreement. At best, Iran agreed to disagree with the United States on key nuclear weapons-related issues and to continue talks,” Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., said.

Obama has defended his negotiating team’s work, and said the coming negotiations will be important.

The BBC reported some of the factors of the deal, suggest Iran is to cut its stash of enriched uranium – that which could be used in a bomb.

In return, those sanctions gradually go away.

WND reported on Thursday that a former member of Congress simply believes Obama’s work with Iran is a harbinger of World War III.

“This literally is the worst part of the Obama presidency,” said former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann in a radio interview with “Florida Live” host Dan Maduri. “This puts Iran in a position where they would have the firepower to be able to take out not only Israel, but they would have the firepower to use intercontinental ballistic missiles against the United States with nuclear-tipped warheads.”

She continued, “This [deal] virtually guarantees, in my opinion, a World War III. I think that alone would qualify Barack Obama for being the worst president that the United States has ever had to endure.”

Further, WND has reported on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning that the deal threatens the very existence of his nation.

Also documented was the anniversary on which Obama announced his deal.

On the Jewish calendar this year, April 1 coincided with Nisan 13, the date in history when a Persian king signed an agreement calling for the destruction of the Jews.

“King Obama has issued his decree putting the Jewish nation at risk of annihilation on the very same day that King Ahasuerus’ scribes came together and issued their statement to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language and sent letters by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day.”

The ominous historical reference comes from Mark Biltz, pastor of El-Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Washington, and author of “The Feasts of the Lord,” “Blood Moons” and “Studies in our Hebrew Roots.”

The Obama administration said on April 2, President Obama announced in a ceremony from the Rose Garden that a tentative deal had been reached the day before, Nisan 13.

The book of Esther declares, in Esther 3:12, 13, that on Nisan 13 the Persian king Ahasuerus was tricked by a viceroy by the name of Haman into signing an agreement to destroy all the Jews in the land at a future date.

That didn’t end well for Haman, or those who were told to destroy Jews.

The Bible records Haman was hanged and the Jews, on that day, destroyed some 75,000 of their enemies.

When the deadline originally was missed, and then extended, Obama said he hoped it would ensure that there’s not nuclear arms race in the Middle East, but Netanyahu said it would do exactly what Obama said he didn’t want. “Such a deal would increase the risks of nuclear proliferation in the region and the risks of a horrific war,” he said.

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