{"id":65080,"date":"2016-04-02T10:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65080"},"modified":"2016-04-02T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T14:07:31","slug":"obama-iran-is-not-business-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65080","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Iran is not business-friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=41778\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/obama_kerry_biden-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"obama_kerry_biden\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/obama_kerry_biden-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/obama_kerry_biden-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/obama_kerry_biden.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>President Obama seemed surprised yesterday when he noticed that, although they&#8217;re complying with the letter of the treaty, Iran isn&#8217;t following the spirit of the nuclear deal that John Kerry caved to last year. Iran complained that they haven&#8217;t reaped the economic benefits that were promised to them,  according to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/274954-obama-iran-has-followed-letter-but-not-spirit-of-nuke-deal\">The Hill<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIran so far has followed the letter of the agreement, but the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and businesses that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that are going to scare businesses off,\u201d Obama said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they launch ballistic missiles with slogans calling for the destruction of Israel, that makes businesses nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran has to understand what every country in the world understands, which is businesses want to go where they feel safe, where they don\u2019t see massive controversy, where they can be confident that transactions are going to operate normally,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd that\u2019s an adjustment that Iran\u2019s going to have to make as well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Iran has squandered their windfall on continuing to be the main state supporter of terrorism in the world, and that seems to surprise this administration &#8211; as if they&#8217;ve been asleep for the last thirty years. Obama is referring to the news last month, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/03\/09\/reports-iran-fires-missiles-marked-israel-must-wiped-out\/81517488\/\">USAToday<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran test-fired two ballistic missiles, one of them with the phrase &#8220;Israel should be wiped off the Earth&#8221; written on it in Hebrew, Iranian news media reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s semiofficial Fars news agency said the missiles were fired at a target 870 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>It came the day after Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard said it test-fired several ballistic missiles as part of a military exercise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good use of their billions of dollars, you know, instead of making life better in Iran. And, oh, yeah, Iran&#8217;s agent in Iraq, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/world\/firebrand-cleric-muqtada-alsadr-returns-to-centre-stage-of-iraqi-politics-20160401-gnvw2v.html\">Muqtada al Sadr<\/a> is back in business in the Green Zone reforming the Iraqi government in Iran&#8217;s favor;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Muqtada al-Sadr, the cleric whose militia repeatedly battled US troops more than a decade ago, is back in action in Iraq &#8211; this time as a battler against corruption who seeks to change the face of government.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, after spending five days holed up in a tent inside Baghdad&#8217;s heavily fortified Green Zone to press his demands, he was handed a victory, in the form of a proposed new government presented to parliament by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/25\/politics\/general-us-troops-iraq\/\">CNN reports<\/a> that that the Pentagon is contemplating even more US troops in Iraq;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S. defense official told CNN earlier this week that the U.S. currently has between 4,500 and 5,000 troops in Iraq on a regular basis, about 1,000 over the stated limit of 3,800. This includes 200 Special Operations Forces whose presence is not publicly acknowledged, the official said.<br \/>\nThe coalition has made a decision not to publicly reveal the exact number of U.S. troops currently in Iraq, coalition spokesperson Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters earlier this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, basically, it&#8217;s 2005 all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama seemed surprised yesterday when he noticed that, although they&#8217;re complying with the letter of &hellip; <a title=\"Obama: Iran is not business-friendly\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65080\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama: Iran is not business-friendly<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}