Iranian Revolutionary Guard Rejects Inspections Of Military Sites Under Obama-Kerry Deal

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif smiled when
the nuclear talks began.  He knew Sec. Kerry had
a history of selling out his own county and that
President Obama bows to everyone but America.

Today in Washington. D.C. - April 20, 2015:
The House will reconvene at 2 PM but will conduct no business. The house will reconvene at 12:00 p.m. on April 21, 2015.

The Senate will reconvene at 2 PM to resume consideration of S. 178, the bipartisan Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. At 5:30, the Senate will vote on the nomination of George Hanks, Jr, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas.

On Sunday, the AP reported, “International nuclear inspectors will be barred from all Iranian military sites under any deal with world powers, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guard said Sunday, setting up a possible standoff as negotiators try to reach a final deal

“Gen. Hossein Salami, the Guard's deputy leader, told Iranian state television that allowing foreign inspection of military sites is tantamount to ‘selling out,’ raising the stakes as talks between Iran and the six-nation group are to resume April 22 in Vienna.

“‘We will respond with hot lead (bullets) to those who speak of it,’ Salami said. ‘Iran will not become a paradise for spies. We will not roll out the red carpet for the enemy.’ Salami said allowing foreign inspectors to visit a military base would amount to ‘occupation,’ and expose ‘military and defense secrets.’ ‘It means humiliating a nation,’ Salami added. ‘They will not even be permitted to inspect the most normal military site in their dreams.’

“A fact sheet on the framework accord issued by the U.S. State Department said Iran would be required to grant the U.N. nuclear agency access to any ‘suspicious sites.’ Iran has questioned that and other language in the fact sheet.”

And according to Reuters, “Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told military commanders on Sunday the United States had created the ‘myth’ of nuclear weapons to portray Iran as a threat, hardening his rhetoric before nuclear negotiations resume this week. . . .

“‘They created the myth of nuclear weapons so they could say the Islamic Republic is a source of threat. No, the source of threat is America itself, with its unrestrained, destabilizing interventions,’ Khamenei said in a televised address to a hall of several hundred military commanders. . . . Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition the U.S. State Department dismissed.”

The Wall Street Journal editors don’t like where things appear to be headed: “Give Ayatollah Ali Khamenei credit for knowing his opposition. Two weeks ago the Supreme Leader declared that Western sanctions had to be lifted immediately as a condition of a nuclear deal. And sure enough, on Friday President Obama said Iran would get significant sanctions relief immediately upon signing a deal.

“The Ayatollah knows that Mr. Obama wants an agreement with Iran so much that there’s almost no concession the President won’t make. So why not keep asking for more?

“Keep in mind that the talks began with the U.S. and its European partners demanding that Iran dismantle its nuclear program. But to persuade the Ayatollah to accept the recent ‘framework’ accord, Mr. Obama has already conceded that Iran can keep enriching uranium, that it can maintain 5,060 centrifuges to do the enriching, that its enriched-uranium stockpiles can stay inside Iran, that the once-concealed facilities at Fordow and Arak can stay open (albeit in altered form), and that Iran can continue doing research on advanced centrifuges.

“All of these concessions are contrary to previous U.S. positions, and we’re no doubt missing a few. But none of that was enough for the Ayatollah, who quickly asserted two new deal-breaking objections: immediate sanctions relief, and no inspections under any circumstances of Iran’s military sites.

“The White House has insisted that sanctions relief would be phased out based on Iranian compliance with the accord. Iranian negotiators quickly denied they had agreed to any such thing. At first White House spokesman Josh Earnest dismissed this as mere face-saving domestic politicking inside Iran. But then the Ayatollah weighed in with his demand for immediate sanctions relief, adding to reinforce the goodwill that the Obama Administration was “lying” and had “devilish” intentions.

“On Friday Mr. Obama nonetheless turned the other cheek and suggested a compromise on sanctions relief is likely. White House sources whispered to reporters that the immediate windfall to Iran could be between $30 billion and $50 billion from access to frozen offshore Iranian accounts.”

The WSJ editors then note the most recent Iranian demand. “As for inspections, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps reiterated Sunday that all military sites are off-limits. Iran’s news agency reported that General Hossein Salami, the Guards’ deputy leader, said such inspections would be ‘selling out’ to the enemy. ‘Iran will not become a paradise of spies. We will not roll out the red carpet for the enemy,’ he said.

“This contradicts the U.S. summary of the framework accord, which claims that U.N. inspectors would have access to any ‘suspicious sites.’ It didn’t say only non-military suspicious sites. Mr. Obama has already conceded that the inspectors would need Iran’s permission to visit certain sites, rather than having on-demand and immediate access. If military sites are off-limits, then those sites are where Iran would do the cheating when it wants to. The entire inspections regime would be an act of Western self-deception.”

In the Weekly Republican Address, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) warned about these latest demands from Tehran. “Four years ago I authored a bipartisan Iran sanctions Legislation that passed the Senate by a vote of 100-0. These sanctions forced Iran back to the negotiating table. They were so effective that they dropped the value of Iran’s currency by ¾. This was probably the entire reason why the Iranians even showed up at the negotiations.

“Lately, Iran has tried to backtrack on the promises they made to President Obama. Iran now wants sanctions immediately lifted which would fund Iran’s terror subsidiaries with billions. Secretary Kerry recently testified before the Senate and said it would only take two more months for Iran to build a bomb.

“We must use strong economic pressure on Iran to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons.”

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