GOP unanimously oppose to the Iran Deal

Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona who was seen as the most likely Republican to vote for current Iran nuclear deal, said he wouldn’t back the accord when Congress votes on it next month.

Sen. Flake was seen as the only Republican to back the Iran nuclear agreement, but now he says he won’t vote for it. With this, President Obama’s effort to establish a bipartisan support for his controversial Iran nuclear deal was nothing other than an illusion.

While Iran negotiates on nuke, it has been busy ....

Iran is busy on:

1. Funding shiite militias in Iraq and taking over the government
2. Backing Houthi rebels in overthrowing the Yemen government
3. Arresting and holding four Americans without trial of charge
4. Executing 1500 political dissidents, religious minorities and women
5. Baking Syria's war and giving birth to ISIS
6. Passing laws legalizing child marriages and misogyny in Iran

Iran's mullahs want nuclear deal only to end sanctions and bring in $100 billions in immediate cash with billions more to follow in trade, foreign investments and oil sales.
It's not about doing a deal, only the right deal.
Contact your representative and senator, ask them to hold Iran accountable.

For more insight, read this article: Can a strong agreement be possible when there are doubts about nuclear program in Iran?

Assessing President Obama strategy in Iraq after the fall of Ramadi to the ISIS

Ten months after U.S. air strikes began, ISIS militants took control of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province. The group launched an assault on May 15 with the backing of sleeper cells to capture government facilities and take control of most of the city just two days later, on May 17. Ramadi is strategic to the Islamic State because of its proximity to Baghdad. The Islamic State group’s seizure of Ramadi, was a painful blow to the US-led war against the jihadists.

What happened in Ramadi was a failure of the Iraqi forces to fight. Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Sunday that Iraqi forces had demonstrated “no will to fight” against the ISIS, blaming them for a retreat that led to the terrorist group’s victory in capturing the Iraqi city of Ramadi. Al-Zamili, head of Iraq’s parliamentary defense and security committee, dismissed Carter’s remarks as “unrealistic and baseless”. He said the US had failed to provide “good equipment, weapons and aerial support” to the soldiers and was seeking to “throw the blame on somebody else”. Maj Gen Tim Cross, speaking to the BBC’s Today program, said: “Churchill said back at the beginning of the 20th century, you can destroy an army very quickly, and effectively we did that when we disbanded the Iraqi military back in 2003, but … it can take a generation to build a strong capable military that is going to win this sort of campaign.”

Mr. McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, repeated his call to send American ground troops, including Special Operations forces, into Iraq. Mr. McCain blamed President Obama on CBS’s “Face the Nation” by saying: “We need to have a strategy.” He added, “There is no strategy. And anybody that says that there is I’d like to hear what it is. Because it certainly isn’t apparent now.”

The US House passed sanction legislation against Hezbollah

The House of Representatives passed H.R. 2297, the Hezbollah International Financial Prevention Act of 2015, which would strengthen economic sanctions against Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that continues to pose a threat to the United States, and its allies, and interests throughout the Middle East and beyond. 
H.R. 2297 takes a comprehensive approach to addressing the threat posed by Hezbollah by imposing severe new sanctions on Hezbollah’s fundraising channels and restricting its ability to use its funds to support global terrorist activities. The legislation also targets Hezbollah’s media appendage, al-Manar, and forces other critical designations to undermine the terrorist organization’s illicit activities.

Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “Years ago Hezbollah was a limited, regional threat. Today, it is a global threat conducting terrorist and criminal activities all over the world”.

H.R. 2297 requires the Administration to provide a comprehensive overview of countries supporting Hezbollah, including those governments that are not taking adequate efforts to disrupt Hezbollah’s global logistics networks.

Hezbollah was founded by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) soon after the 1979 revolution in Iran. The group is fighting in Syria to save the Bashar al-Assad regime. On November 2014, the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) boasted of how it has supplied Lebanese Hezbollah with missile systems. In January 2014, the current Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif laid a wreath on the grave of ImadMughniyeh, a principal leader and operative that served in Hezbollah’s military for several years. Imad Mughniyeh was the main man behind the 1983 Beirut bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon.

Hussein Salami, Deputy Commander of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards admitted the regime’s meddling in Yemen as well as other countries of the region by creating proxy groups. He stated that groups like Hezbollah are no longer in only in Lebanon but today such forces have been formed in Yemen and Syria.

Saudi Arabia asked on November 2014, the U.N. Security Council to put Hezbollah on its list of 'terrorist organizations'. 'We call on the council to place Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organizations,' Saudi envoy to the Security Council Abdallah Al-Mouallimi said. 

Congress won a battle on Iran nuclear deal to Obama

The House of Representative on Thursday passed legislation requiring congress to review of a probable nuclear deal with Iran. This was a victory for the Congress and give it the power to approve or disapprove of a nuclear agreement with Iran during a 30-day period when economic sanctions could not be lifted. This passage came on a vote of 400 to 25 which override Obama veto. Obama administration is not permitted to lift any economical sanction if the international accord is signed.  The Senate also passed the bill last week in an amazing result of 98-1 vote.

For months, the White House was though against the effort in Congress to oversee the Iran deal, warning that the proposals threatened to upend the talks. But a bipartisan cooperation led this bill to be passed and prevent Obama to be able to veto the bill. 

Congress must stop Obama from giving concession to Mullahs

The reason that Iranian Mullahs came to negotiation table is because of Congress passed tough economic sanctions that hammered Mullahs' economy. But the job is not done. It must be ensure that Iran does not retain its nuclear ability to develop a nuclear bomb. Iranian regime continue gaming the international community.

New Senate bill to allow Congress to review supposed nuclear accord is an essential hindrance toward having a bad deal with Iran. It is crucial that Obama administration realize value of economic sanctions and keep those sanctions in place firmly until Iran completely step back of its nuclear project and destroy all its nuclear capacity. Obama is so afraid of Iran walking away of negotiation table. But Mullahs’ bark is worse than their bite.  Don’t worry about what they are saying. They cannot continue with killing sanctions anymore. Continue to be firm to lay Mullahs’ back down.