Obama To Subsidize Nuclear Jihad

by JASmius

Just thought I'd tighten up the headline on this story.  Even Newsmax has a tendency to euphemize now and then:

The Obama administration is weighing whether to offer Iran the chance to recoup billions of dollars in frozen overseas assets if it takes steps to scale back its nuclear program, U.S. officials and congressional aides said Friday. The proposal would face a skeptical Congress determined to make the end of Tehran's uranium enrichment activity the condition for any sanctions relief.

Which is to say, Congress is only nominally less loopy than the Regime - or would be if we didn't know that O is a staunch jihadi sympathizer.

The brainstorming....

What?!?

....comes after two days of nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers ended this week in Geneva. The talks — the first since Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took office — ended on an upbeat note although it fell short of specific and concrete commitments by Iran to stop enriching uranium or ship out its stockpiles of higher-enriched uranium.

Or, in other words, exactly like the ten billion and two rounds of "talks" that preceded this one.

The proposal is one of several under consideration to spur negotiations to ensure Tehran can't produce atomic weapons. Enriching uranium can produce material for peaceful energy purposes or nuclear arms.

Ah, yes, "talks" to "spur negotiations" to "encourage discussions" to "hasten conversations" to....um, what were we jabbering about again?  Oh, that's right, monumentally inefficient diplomatic foreplay.  Haven't even had to retrieve the Geiger box of radioactive Kleenex, yet.

But it won't be long now.

Under the plan being weighed, Iran would be able to access money from oil sales overseas that it currently can only barter with because of U.S. and international sanctions. Senate aides put the total between $50 billion and $75 billion.

Oil sales from an oil- and natural gas-drenched, fossil-fuels-exporting country that only needs nuclear capability to generate energy.  Got it.

It's not clear what Iran would have to do in return to prompt the Obama administration to allow banks to release the money.

That would be nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  Except perhaps that this would constitute bribing the mullahs with their own money.  Obviously a Tea Party radical concept that has no place in Regime "brainstorming".  I'm surprised Valerie Jarrett didn't catch that.

The premise behind providing Iran with cold cash is that opening and shutting such a valve would be far easier than beginning to take apart years of complicated, international financial and oil sanctions that would also be difficult to put back together if Iran failed to live up to the bargain.

"If"?  You mean like every other @#$%ing bargain we've made with Khamenei over the past decade-plus?  And does this mean that O is, again, simplifying and streamlining a public sector initiative?  Damn, where was that impulse the past five years?

Finding a formula for sanctions relief is important if President Barack Obama is going to be able to offer the Iranians good reason to be open about their nuclear program before they reach the point of nuclear weapons capability.

They passed that Rubicon probably as many as five years ago.  They're building - and deploying - an arsenal now.

A nuclear-armed Iran could prompt a U.S. or Israeli military intervention.

No, no it wouldn't.  If George W. Bush didn't strike them, why would their banker?