A Bad Deal

Sometimes a graphic speaks louder than written words:

The Deal Is Done!

And President Barack Hussein Obama has finally thrown Israel under the bus.  Soon he and his Muslim masters will be able to kill every Jew in Israel. (And possibly the world.)  All he has to do is lift the sanctions on Iran.

From Debka

President Barack Obama has notified Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that his administration will soon start the partial and gradual easing of economic sanctions against Iran, debkafile reports exclusively from its Washington and Jerusalem sources. The reduction would apply to “non-significant” yet “substantial” sanctions, the message said.

Israel is the only American ally to receive prior warning of this decision - and the only one to be briefed in detail of the understandings Washington has reached with Tehran, including Iran’s concessions on its nuclear program. Neither European, nor Persian Gulf leaders led by Saudi Arabia have been let in on the scale of reciprocal concessions approved by Obama and Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

These concessions will start coming to light when they are put on the table of the nuclear negotiations beginning in Geneva on Oct. 15 between Iran and the P5+1 group (five Security Council permanent members and Germany).

Meanwhile, high-ranking British, French and other European emissaries arrived in Jerusalem Thursday night. They said they were coming to discuss the latest developments on the Iranian question, but their real purpose was to discover the content of Obama’s message to the Israeli prime minister.

A high-placed American source told debkafile early Thursday: “The American-Iranian cake is already in the oven and half done. In its next issue, out this coming Friday, DEBKA Weekly divulges in detail the content of the understandings reached between Washington and Tehran, how they were handled and the live wires acting as liaison in the secret exchanges. Exclusive articles will also discuss the strategic, political and military ramifications of the deals struck between Washington and Tehran.

In no less than a few months and no more than a year I expect to see a mushroom cloud climbing over Tel Aviv. The sanctions are destroying Iran, but Barack Hussein Obama will cave in.  And once more will Jews die.  Now I suspect Netanyahu is decided only one thing:

When to attack Iran.

Sanctions On Iran? Not Really!

Sanctions?  What sanctions?  For sanctions to work everybody, every nation must be on board.  But to Barack Hussein Obama sanctions are only to be carried out by others, not the US, not 11 of our "friends".

The United States is offering some breathing room in its seemingly ironclad set of sanctions against Iran, underscoring the difficulty the U.S. and other countries may have in truly freezing out the Iranian regime.

The State Department on Tuesday announced exemptions for 11 countries from the newly passed economic sanctions expected to hit Iran's financial and energy sectors.

By summer, the U.S. is expected to penalize nations that make oil purchases through Iran's central bank unless they can show they've made a significant reduction in their Iranian oil supply.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that the 11 countries -- 10 European Union nations, as well as Japan -- had met that test.

"The actions taken by these countries were not easy," Clinton said. "They had to rethink their energy needs at a critical time for the world economy and quickly begin to find alternatives to Iranian oil, which many had been reliant on for their energy needs."

While the announcement demonstrates that these countries have started to cut back on their Iranian oil purchases, it also ensures that for now those countries will not have to pull out of the Iranian market entirely.

At the same time, the United States is allowing for the export of food, medicine and related products to Iran, under a long-established exemption for humanitarian items.

And that trade has spiked in recent weeks, with Iran buying wheat from the United States for the first time in three years.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. companies have sold 180,000 tons of the staple crop to Iran in the past month.

Jerry Norton, a grains analyst with the USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board, said it appears Iran is conducting the rare trade with the U.S. after running into problems purchasing grains from its usual suppliers due to weather issues.

The United States, he said, is a "last resort in many instances" for Iran.

Norton said Iran may have blown through some of its own grain supplies by feeding it to livestock. Asked whether the regime is stockpiling food to prepare for the impact of sanctions, Norton said: "It's hard to know what the Iranians are truly doing."

The transactions, though, raise questions about how effective selective sanctions can truly be.

"If the U.S. isn't prepared to be really tough, how can we expect anyone else to be?" John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told FoxNews.com in an email. "This is one reason among many why obsessing about sanctions as a remedy is ultimately illusory, misguided and self-defeating."

Bolton said the U.S. should cut off food sales to Iran, but he questioned what other transactions are still allowed despite sanctions -- and whether new restrictions would ultimately deter Iran's nuclear ambitions.

A Treasury Department official said the wheat exports are allowed under a longstanding provision "that lowers the barriers for exporters to ship food to Iran."

"The recent sanctions imposed on Iran have not changed our approach to the export of food, medicine and medical devices to Iran," the official said.

The U.S. also exported corn to Iran in 2011, and soybeans in 2010.

The Treasury Department on Tuesday also announced revised rules allowing the export of certain software to Iran.

The announcement stressed that the goal is to support the "free flow of information" to Iranians, at a time when the regime uses "an electronic curtain that prevents the Iranian people from communicating with the outside world." The clarified rules authorized basic applications like Skype, Google Talk and Acrobat.

President Obama stressed the importance of online communication services during a videotaped message to the Iranian people marking the Iranian holiday of Nowruz.

The administration has tried to distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people governed by the regime.

The announcement Tuesday by the State Department reflected the latest phase of a careful diplomatic effort to implement the new round of unilateral sanctions while giving leeway to countries that weren't necessarily prepared for them.

Some of the United States' closest allies -- including Japan, South Korea and India -- import a considerable amount of their oil supply from Iran.

India and South Korea were not on the latest list of exempted countries.

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If Barack Hussein Obama really wanted sanctions to work then there would be no exemptions.  What this tells the world, tells Israel is that we will stab the Jews in the back to accommodate Europe and Japan.  They must not suffer and who really cares if 7 million Israelis are wiped out.  They are only Jews after all.  His Pastor Jeremiah Wright will be very proud.

Just A Thought

Brazil and Turkey tried to negotiate an agreement to let Iran build nukes to monitor Iran's nuclear program.  The civilized world says no. Turkey sets up a phony flotilla and attacks Israeli Seals. The world condemns Israel, will impose sanctions not on Iran but on Israel.

Does anyone else think that this has been planned this way from the start by Iran?