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#20661963 at 2024-04-01 16:24:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25342: April's Fools Edition
Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich
Well, well. Why would the Secretary General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad be *in the Iranian Ambassador's residence* in Syria?
We all know why.
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Gabriel Noronha
@GLNoronha
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#BREAKING: Israel reportedly killed Ziyad Al-Nakhalah, the Secretary General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in a strike on the Iranian Ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria (next to the Iranian embassy).
Nakhalah just met with Supreme Leader Khamenei in Tehran last week.
https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1774834948471460283
#19799846 at 2023-10-25 17:10:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24311: Legit Military Targets Edition
>>19799751
Suspicion surrounds ex-Iran envoy Rob Malley after Israel attack: 'Worst State Department scandal'
Josh Christenson
The Biden administration's former special envoy to Iran, who was placed on leave earlier this year for allegedly mishandling classified material, should face "extensive scrutiny" for his "permissive" stance toward the Tehran regime after it aided Hamas and Hezbollah in carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel, critics said Monday.
"Rob Malley deserves extensive scrutiny - yesterday, today and tomorrow," Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Post after the Wall Street Journal reported that officers of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps planned and signed off on this weekend's atrocity that killed at least 900.
"These reports could not be more concerning, and they hint at what could be the worst State Department scandal since Alger Hiss," Issa added.
"Malley and others created an incredibly permissive environment for Hamas, for Iran, to do all these things," added Gabriel Noronha, a former special adviser on Iran at the State Department.
Noronha, who served under former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saidMalley and his negotiating team "purposefully funneled billions of dollars to [Iran] through lack of sanctions enforcement and provision of sanctions reliefthat has given them somewhere between $50 [billion] and $80 billion over the last two and a half years."
A senior House Republican aide told The Post that the cash influx followed an even more generous payout of $1.7 billion that the Obama administration made to Iran in 2016, eventually contributing to Saturday's attack that triggered the Jewish state's first declaration of war in 50 years.
"There is a straight line from Obama's giveaway to Iran, to Biden's enriching of Iran - to Iran's war on Israel," the aide said.
Noronha also noted the Biden administration had allowed for "an enormous deterrence failure" by undertaking just four operations against Iran-backed terror groups after allowing the regime and its proxies to carry out 83 attacks of their own against US forces.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had revealed the muted US response to Iran-backed attacks in Senate testimony earlier this year.
On Saturday, Hamas terrorists launched the largest-scale offensive against Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, firing thousands of rockets into the Jewish state and engaging in a multi-front armed invasion to kill and capture civilians.
At least 900 Israelis have been killed, thousands wounded and approximately 150 taken hostage.
The death toll includes 11 Americans, with President Biden admitting Monday afternoon that US citizens were "likely" among those kidnapped and held in Gaza.
Noronha pointed out that under the Trump administration, the US did not distinguish "between the Iranian regime killing Americans and the regime's proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah, killing Americans."
"Either way, we would treat that as attacks by the Iranian government itself - and respond accordingly," he said. "So now, [11] Americans, at least, are dead. Maybe a dozen-plus are being held hostage.
"There is a temptation by this administration - and they've been very clear - they've been trying to pretend this isn't their problem," Noronha concluded. "And the reason they're doing that is because they don't want their Iran policy to get screwed."
Malley was quietly placed on unpaid leave in June for his handling of "protected material," but the State Department has refrained from sharing the nature of the allegations with Congress.
In August, an Iranian media outlet leaked a memo from Erin Smart, director of the Office of Personnel Security and Suitability in the department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, outlining "serious security concerns" with his actions.
The FBI has an "ongoing" investigation into the matter, according to the State Department.
Last month, another trove of leaked files revealed that three top aides to Malley were tied to a secretive influence operation by Tehran's Foreign Ministry, according to internal Iranian government correspondence and emails reviewed by Semafor.
Noronha called the allegations against Malley "deeply troubling" but said details were scarce about his alleged breaches of US security protocols.
Defense hawks have also criticized Malley, who served an adviser on Iran policy under former President Barack Obama, for recently surfaced remarks in support of Hamas and Hezbollah.
"It's a mistake to only think of them in terms of their terrorist violence dimension," Malley said in a 2008 interview. "It has a charity organization, a social branch; it's not something you can defeat militarily either and people need to understand that."...
https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/suspended-iran-special-envoy-rob-malley-under-scrutiny-for-hamas-remarks-following-israel-terror-attack/
#19754236 at 2023-10-18 03:24:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24257: Storm Riders Night Shift Edition
>>19753619 lb
Uh oh
Gabriel Noronha
@GLNoronha
#BREAKING: UN Sanctions on Iran's ballistic missile and drone program have just now expired (7pm ET, 12am GMT).
Iran can now legally buy an ICBM from China or sell missiles/drones to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Russia.
https://twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1714443741048578444
#19619106 at 2023-09-27 19:01:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24093: INFORMATON WARFARE Edition
China's Tencent Profited Off Fraudulent PPP Loans
Tencent co-owned a main investor in startup that helped expedite COVID relief program loans
China's Tencent profited off fraudulent federal COVID relief program loans, according to court records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
The court records reveal that Tencent co-owned one of the main investors in Womply, a San Francisco startup that raked in $2 billion in 2021 by helping businesses get expedited Paycheck Protection Program loans-and which was accused of profiting from "rampant fraud" in the application process.
Tencent, which also owns WeChat and a large stake in the parent company of TikTok, has faced scrutiny by the U.S. government over national security risks. In 2021, the Trump administration issued an executive order banning transactions with Tencent due to its connections to the Chinese government. President Joe Biden rescinded the ban after taking office, but ordered a security review of the company's apps.
Tencent's financial ties to Womply could raise new questions about abuse of the PPP program, despite efforts from lawmakers to prevent foreign entities from profiting. The Small Business Administration, which oversaw the disbursement of nearly $800 billion in taxpayer funds throughout the pandemic, estimates that more than $200 billion was awarded to "potentially fraudulent actors," according to a June inspector general report.
"Congress approved Paycheck Protection Program loans to prevent a recession from huge wave of layoffs-not to send taxpayer dollars to China," said Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department official who now serves as the executive director of the Polaris National Security think tank. "It's unacceptable that the parent company of TikTok is making money off government fraud-especially when we're in the middle of increasing debt and national security crises."
The news comes less than a year after the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a report detailing Womply's failures to weed out blatantly bogus loan applications. Another investigation found that the company helped fast-track loans for fraudsters who used photographs of Barbie dolls and other false documentation to apply for the federal relief funds, according to the Messenger.
The findings led the Small Business Association, the agency that oversaw the PPP program, to suspend its work with Womply earlier this year.
Womply was founded by Toby Scammell, who was convicted of insider trading in 2014. The company "was responsible for handling eligibility and fraud verification for over a million PPP loans" from applicants looking to fast-track the process.
Womply pulled in over $2 billion in fees through its PPP work. But Womply's lending partners told congressional investigators that the company's fraud prevention practices appeared to be "put together with duct tape and gum," allowing "rampant fraud" into the PPP program.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-tencent-profited-off-fraudulent-ppp-loans/
#17440976 at 2022-08-25 16:41:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21376: PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT!
Iran nuclear deal being pushed by Biden weaker than original version under Obama, analysts say
Updated: August 24, 2022 - 11:37pm
Part 1 of 3
"This is diplomatic malpractice to the point of being criminal," said Gabriel Noronha, who served as a special adviser on Iran at the State Department.
It's become common to refer to President Joe Biden's efforts to "revive" the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, from which his predecessor withdrew the U.S. in 2018. Indeed, Biden administration officials have for months defended their efforts to seek a "mutual return to compliance" with the accord to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for providing large-scale sanctions relief.
Such terminology, however, is inaccurate and even misleading, according to experts and former U.S. officials who spoke to Just the News. They warned the current deal being negotiated is an entirely different arrangement than what was finalized under former President Barack Obama, containing more U.S. concessions and serving Iran's interests in dangerous and enduring ways.
"It's structurally and technically a very different deal," said Gabriel Noronha, who served as a special adviser on Iran at the State Department. "It's more advantageous to Iran."
Noronha, who's had access to Iranian government documents and earlier this year was leaked key details of the nuclear talks by U.S. and European officials, pointed first and foremost to the type and breadth of sanctions on Iran that would be lifted under a deal.
According to a Foundation for Defense of Democracies analysis, the new deal would give Iran access to $274 billion in its first year and at least $1 trillion by 2030.
Experts told Just the News that Iran would allocate these funds as it did the first time, using the infusion of cash to increase its military budget and provide a windfall to terrorist groups and its network of proxies.
But this time, much of the most extensive - and controversial - sanctions relief would be unrelated to Iran's nuclear program.
Most notably, the U.S. is expected to abrogate multiple Trump-era executive orders, which will lift sanctions on dozens of individuals and entities without congressional review, according to people familiar with the matter. Most notably, the Biden administration would likely end Executive Order 13876, which imposed sanctions on the Iranian supreme leader's office and a host of Iranian officials accused of terrorism and human rights abuses. These sanctions were unrelated to Iran's nuclear program.
Iran didn't give any concessions in return for Washington's agreement to nix the executive orders, according to Iran International, which obtained a leaked report on remarks by Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri-Kani, from a recent closed-door briefing provided to journalists in Tehran.
"It's alarming how the U.S. is preparing to lift non-nuclear sanctions related to human rights, terrorism, ballistic missiles," said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran. "We're giving more and receiving less in return. As problematic as the 2015 deal was, this is even worse."
The Biden administration has pitched the nuclear deal to Congress and the American people as a narrow nuclear agreement that wouldn't inhibit America's ability to counter Iran's malign non-nuclear behavior.
However, throughout negotiations, Iran has made several demands unrelated to its nuclear program, including the removal of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an Iranian military force, from the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/analysts-iran-nuclear-deal-being-pushed-biden-weaker-original-version-under
#17440321 at 2022-08-25 13:05:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21375: Rig For Red Edition
It's become common to refer to President Joe Biden's efforts to "revive" the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, from which his predecessor withdrew the U.S. in 2018. Indeed, Biden administration officials have for months defended their efforts to seek a "mutual return to compliance" with the accord to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for providing large-scale sanctions relief.
Such terminology, however, is inaccurate and even misleading, according to experts and former U.S. officials who spoke to Just the News. They warned the current deal being negotiated is an entirely different arrangement than what was finalized under former President Barack Obama, containing more U.S. concessions and serving Iran's interests in dangerous and enduring ways.
"It's structurally and technically a very different deal," said Gabriel Noronha, who served as a special adviser on Iran at the State Department. "It's more advantageous to Iran."
Noronha, who's had access to Iranian government documents and earlier this year was leaked key details of the nuclear talks by U.S. and European officials, pointed first and foremost to the type and breadth of sanctions on Iran that would be lifted under a deal.
According to a Foundation for Defense of Democracies analysis, the new deal would give Iran access to $274 billion in its first year and at least $1 trillion by 2030.
Experts told Just the News that Iran would allocate these funds as it did the first time, using the infusion of cash to increase its military budget and provide a windfall to terrorist groups and its network of proxies.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/analysts-iran-nuclear-deal-being-pushed-biden-weaker-original-version-
#17184849 at 2022-08-08 03:02:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21289 Odin Slash
>>17184087
Biden to allow some migrants with terrorist ties into country, raising security concerns
CRAY CRAY BIDAN ADMIN LOVES TERRORISTS
New administration rule could potentially endanger Americans, security experts warn.People who worked with terrorist groups will now have an easier time entering the U.S. legally. Last week, the State and Homeland Security departments announced they had altered the Immigration and Nationality Act, a federal law, to grant entry into the U.S. and other "immigration benefits" tothose who provided "limited" or "insignificant" material support to designated terrorist organizations.
Examples of such support include "routine commercial transactions," "humanitarian assistance," "substantial pressure that does not rise to the level of duress," and "the satisfaction of certain well-established or verifiable family, social, or cultural obligations." The amended language, detailed in a notice to the Federal Register, creates a carveout so immigration restrictions, including an entry ban into the country, no longer apply tothese individuals provided they show they "pose no danger to the safety and security of the United States."
Other factors considered by the government include whether the person in question supported "terrorist activities that they knew or reasonably should have known targeted noncombatant persons, U.S. citizens, or U.S. interests." The notice added that the carveout "may be revoked as a matter of discretion and without notice at any time, with respect to any and all persons subject to it."
The changes are raising alarm bells among immigration and national security experts, who told Just the News that the Biden administration is potentially endangering American lives.
"This is a very concerning decision to weaken the government's ability to keep supporters of terror groups from exploiting our generous immigration system," said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. "This policy essentially makes excuses on behalf of foreign nationals who have been found to support terror groups, giving them deniability, and enables naive bureaucrats to look the other way at a record of concerning behavior on the part of applicants.
"As a result, it will be even easier for those who hate America and support terror groups to live here legally, free to fight us from within, and free to sponsor others to come in." A State Department spokesperson told Just the News that the move is meant specifically to help Afghans so they don't get flagged unfairly and can enjoy America's immigration benefits.
"This action will allow the U.S. government to meet the protection needs of qualifying Afghans who do not pose a national security or public safety risk and provide them with the ability to access a durable immigration status in the United States," the spokesperson said.
"Eligible individuals include Afghans who supported and worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, worked as civil servants or as doctors, teachers, and engineers during a time when the Taliban was in power..The Taliban is the Islamist group in control of Afghanistan.
The actual language of the new rule is broad and appears toapply to all countries and U.S.-designated terrorist organizations such as ISIS and al Qaeda, according to experts and former officials. The rule doesn't specifically mention Afghans, Afghanistan, or the Taliban.
"If this regulation is truly intended only for the restricted case of Afghanistan, the administration should quickly amend this regulation to remove the troubling loopholes," wrote Gabriel Noronha. The State and Homeland Security departments didn't address why Afghanistan isn't mentioned when asked__. The departments also didn't address the fact that the Taliban isn't a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and therefore wouldn't appear to be covered under the rule - an apparent discrepancy between the Biden administration's messaging and the language of the carveout.
"As usual, the Biden administration is pushing this on behalf of one particular group (Afghans in this case) that it believes the public will have sympathy for, but in fact it is much broader, and could cover many others of concern, such as drug cartels, gangs, espionage scenarios, and hostile governments," said Vaughan. She argued the administration added "highly subjective qualifiers"such as "limited" and "insignificant" to describe one's terror support, explaining lawyers representing terror suspects can easily exploit such language and immigration officers can be deceived. This "practically guarantees that dangerous people who could and should be kept out will slide through our system," said Vaughan.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/why-terrorists-will-now-have-easier-time-entering-us-legally
#16604755 at 2022-07-05 20:06:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21010: Bracketville Texas Optics Edition
Biden to allow some migrants with terrorist ties into country, raising security concerns
CRAY CRAY BIDAN ADMIN LOVES TERRORISTS
New administration rule could potentially endanger Americans, security experts warn.People who worked with terrorist groups will now have an easier time entering the U.S. legally. Last week, the State and Homeland Security departments announced they had altered the Immigration and Nationality Act, a federal law, to grant entry into the U.S. and other "immigration benefits" tothose who provided "limited" or "insignificant" material support to designated terrorist organizations.
Examples of such support include "routine commercial transactions," "humanitarian assistance," "substantial pressure that does not rise to the level of duress," and "the satisfaction of certain well-established or verifiable family, social, or cultural obligations." The amended language, detailed in a notice to the Federal Register, creates a carveout so immigration restrictions, including an entry ban into the country, no longer apply tothese individuals provided they show they "pose no danger to the safety and security of the United States."
Other factors considered by the government include whether the person in question supported "terrorist activities that they knew or reasonably should have known targeted noncombatant persons, U.S. citizens, or U.S. interests." The notice added that the carveout "may be revoked as a matter of discretion and without notice at any time, with respect to any and all persons subject to it."
The changes are raising alarm bells among immigration and national security experts, who told Just the News that the Biden administration is potentially endangering American lives.
"This is a very concerning decision to weaken the government's ability to keep supporters of terror groups from exploiting our generous immigration system," said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. "This policy essentially makes excuses on behalf of foreign nationals who have been found to support terror groups, giving them deniability, and enables naive bureaucrats to look the other way at a record of concerning behavior on the part of applicants.
"As a result, it will be even easier for those who hate America and support terror groups to live here legally, free to fight us from within, and free to sponsor others to come in." A State Department spokesperson told Just the News that the move is meant specifically to help Afghans so they don't get flagged unfairly and can enjoy America's immigration benefits.
"This action will allow the U.S. government to meet the protection needs of qualifying Afghans who do not pose a national security or public safety risk and provide them with the ability to access a durable immigration status in the United States," the spokesperson said.
"Eligible individuals include Afghans who supported and worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, worked as civil servants or as doctors, teachers, and engineers during a time when the Taliban was in power..The Taliban is the Islamist group in control of Afghanistan.
The actual language of the new rule is broad and appears toapply to all countries and U.S.-designated terrorist organizations such as ISIS and al Qaeda, according to experts and former officials. The rule doesn't specifically mention Afghans, Afghanistan, or the Taliban.
"If this regulation is truly intended only for the restricted case of Afghanistan, the administration should quickly amend this regulation to remove the troubling loopholes," wrote Gabriel Noronha. The State and Homeland Security departments didn't address why Afghanistan isn't mentioned when asked__. The departments also didn't address the fact that the Taliban isn't a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and therefore wouldn't appear to be covered under the rule - an apparent discrepancy between the Biden administration's messaging and the language of the carveout.
"As usual, the Biden administration is pushing this on behalf of one particular group (Afghans in this case) that it believes the public will have sympathy for, but in fact it is much broader, and could cover many others of concern, such as drug cartels, gangs, espionage scenarios, and hostile governments," said Vaughan. She argued the administration added "highly subjective qualifiers"such as "limited" and "insignificant" to describe one's terror support, explaining lawyers representing terror suspects can easily exploit such language and immigration officers can be deceived. This "practically guarantees that dangerous people who could and should be kept out will slide through our system," said Vaughan.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/why-terrorists-will-now-have-easier-time-entering-us-legally
#15815128 at 2022-03-08 22:54:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19998: March Madness Gets Madder Each Day Edition
Report: Biden's Iran Deal Gives Regime Access to $90 Billion, $7 Billion for Ransom, Sanctions Relief to Terrorists
President Joe Biden's impending agreement to restore the Iran nuclear deal offers the regime access to $90 billion in foreign currency reserves and sanctions relief to some of the world's worst terrorists, according to a former State Department official.
Gabriel Noronha, writing in Tablet magazine, says the deal does not restore President Barack Obama's old Iran deal, a weak agreement from which President Donald Trump withdrew, but goes much further in giving Iran money and sanctions relief.
"Multiple career officials view these capitulations as so detrimental to U.S. national security that they contacted me requesting that I rapidly share details of these concessions with Congress and the public in an effort to stop them," Noronha writes.
He describes some of the concessions that Biden's negotiator in Vienna, Rob Malley, has reportedly made:
The list of concessions that follows is long, detailed, disturbing, but also somewhat technical. But this much is clear to me: The deal being negotiated in Vienna is dangerous to U.S. national security, to the stability of the Middle East, and to the Iranian people who suffer most under that brutal regime. The lack of evidence to justify a removal of U.S. sanctions is illegal, and the deal that will be foisted upon the world without the support of Congress will be illegitimate. This deal will not serve U.S. interests in either the short or long term.
With Robert Malley in the lead, the United States has promised to lift sanctions on some of the regime's worst terrorists and torturers, on leading officials who have developed Iran's WMD infrastructure, and has agreed to lift sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) itself. In exchange, Iran will receive fewer limitations than those imposed under the JCPOA, and the restrictions on its nuclear program will expire six years sooner than under the terms of the old deal. And that's just the beginning.
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Iran is set to get access to a massive windfall of cash: My latest estimate (derived from figures declassified during my tenure at the State Department) is $90 billion in access to foreign exchange reserves, and then a further $50-$55 billion in extra revenue each year from higher oil and petrochemical exports, with no restrictions on how or where the money can be spent.
Personally, the most troubling transfer of funds will be the $7 billion ransom payment the United States is preparing to pay for the release of four Americans from an Iranian jail. Now, let me be clear: I would be extremely glad to bring these Americans back home safely as quickly as possible. They are innocent victims who, along with their families, have suffered unjustly for far too long. But make no mistake: Biden's payment will only supercharge Iran's hostage-taking industry.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/08/report-bidens-iran-deal-gives-regime-access-to-90-billion-7-billion-for-ransom-sanctions-relief-to-terrorists/
#15790469 at 2022-03-05 17:51:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19966: Shills Are Surrounded & Need Backup Edition
Here's Your Russian Collusion: Biden Working with Russia on New Iran Nuke Deal
BY ROBERT SPENCER MAR 04, 2022 1:50 PM ET
Just when you think the Biden administration couldn't possibly get worse, it finds a way. Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department official, tweeted Wednesday that State, NSC, and European Union officials are warning that "what's happening in Vienna," where Biden's handlers are negotiating a new nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, "is a total disaster," and that they're hoping that "Congress will act to stop the capitulation."
It's about as likely that Congress will stop this, of course, as it is that Biden's handlers will send Donald J. Trump himself to Vienna to handle the negotiations, but there are abundant signs that the new agreement will be far worse than the old one, and directly endanger America and its allies. For one thing, even amidst ever-rising tensions with Russia and punitive sanctions, the administration has turned over leadership of the negotiations to a Russian diplomat, Mikhail Ulyanov. Yes, that's right: Putin's man is going to get us a new deal with the mullahs.
The trouble is not coming just from the fact that we are trusting Russia to act in America's best interests (although America's best interests have never been a priority for Biden's handlers, and there is really no reason to believe that they have ever been a priority in the Vienna negotiations). Noronha added: "Led by Rob Malley, the U.S. has promised to lift sanctions on some of the regime's worst terrorists and torturers, leading officials in the regime's WMD infrastructure, and is currently trying to lift sanctions on the IRGC itself."
Robert Malley has won renown and disgust as a man who has never hesitated to kowtow to America's enemies. Judicial Watch noted back in 2015 that "over the years he has published a number of newspaper opinion pieces urging the United States to reach out and negotiate with terrorist enemies like Hamas, Hezbollah and Muqtada al-Sadr." Now the Iranian mullahs can be added to that list, but since they won't sully themselves by dealing directly with the emissaries of the Great Satan, the Russians are helpfully playing intermediary.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted the danger of all this absurdity in a tweet last Sunday: "President Biden - stop partnering with Russia to cut a deal with Iran. When China and Russia are on your side of the table negotiating 'against' Iran, you are putting America and Israel at risk." A senior congressional official added on Monday: "It's obvious that Russia should no longer serve as one of the key intermediaries brokering an Iran deal. We need to be isolating Russia not just economically, but also diplomatically. There is absolutely no chance that Russia has U.S. national security interests in mind when it comes to Iran's nuclear program."
Yeah. But Biden's handlers show no sign of relenting on this. To all appearances, they're rushing headlong in to a deal with Tehran that would, surprise of surprises, place Russia in a key role, as did the original Obama nuke deal. NBC News explained that "Under one draft interim agreement that sources said Russia presented to Iran, Tehran would be required to stop enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity and dispose of its current stockpile, possibly by exporting it to Russia, along with other restrictions. In exchange, the Iranian government would receive access to billions of dollars in oil revenues frozen in foreign bank accounts, including in South Korea, the sources said."…
https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2022/03/04/heres-your-russian-collusion-biden-working-with-russia-on-new-iran-nuke-deal-n1563717
#15702521 at 2022-02-23 22:20:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19855: Patriots' Bread Edition
Morgan Ortagus Fundraiser Hosted by Jan 6th-Bashing RINOS Who Declared Donald Trump 'Unfit' For Office.
The list of hosts for the Trump-backed candidate raises further questions as to the endorsement.
The controversial, Trump-backed Tennessee congressional candidate Morgan Ortagus is holding a fundraiser sponsored by several people who've publicly condemned and declared the former president "unfit" for office, The National Pulse can reveal.
Among the special guests featured at the upcoming Washington, D.C. fundraiser are establishment conservatives including Senator Lindsey Graham - who Trump recently blasted as "a RINO" - as well as Freedom Caucus-basher and Paul Ryan ally Dan Crenshaw.
The news will raise further questions as to the endorsement from Trump, whose base appears overwhelmingly in favor of another candidate, Robby Starbuck.
But even worse than Graham and Crenshaw are the co-sponsors of the event - including officials and commentators who have ruthlessly bashed Trump.
Former Massachusetts Republican lieutenant governor Kerry Healey, a co-sponsor of the fundraiser, publicly stated she wouldn't vote for Trump in 2016. When asked if voting for a third-party candidate was a throw-away vote, Healey said, "It's the only scenario that seems to offer an alternative to those of us who feel caught in the middle."
Similarly, John Noonan, a national security policy advisor to Jeb Bush and foreign policy advisor and speechwriter for Mitt Romney, wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times titled "I was a Minuteman III nuclear launch officer. Take it from me: We can't let Trump become president" in 2016.
"I believe my party's nominee for president is mentally unfit to assume this heavy responsibility," he wrote before adding: "Trump cannot be trusted with weapons that can kill millions. He cannot be handed the nuclear "football" - a briefcase containing the war plans and codes for our nuclear forces-and be made responsible for its contents."
"These duties are simply too grave to entrust to a man who has exhibited sociopathic and chronically narcissistic behavior throughout his checkered career."
Gabriel Noronha, a former Trump State Department official who was fired after going on a public Twitter tirade against his boss, is also sponsoring the March 2nd event.
"President Trump fomented an insurrectionist mob that attacked the Capitol today. He continues to take every opportunity to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power," Noronha tweeted. "These actions threaten our democracy and our Republic. Trump is entirely unfit to remain in office, and needs to go."
Co-sponsor Charlie Spies appears to have several tweets celebrating the inauguration of President Joe Biden. "Congratulations to President Biden and Vice President Harris. May G-d Bless you with wisdom and justice and continue to bless America. #InaugurationDay 🇺🇸," he wrote on January 20th, 2021 in addition to expressing his cat's excitement for the Biden takeover and praising Amanda Gorman's poetry recitation as "great."
The Ortagus fundraiser is due to take place on March 2nd on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, with attendees stumping up at least $250 for a ticket.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/23/trump-backed-ortagus-to-host-rino-fundraiser/
#13528699 at 2021-04-28 02:51:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17134: Arizona Audit - The Only Way Forward Is The Truth Edition
>>13528671
>>13528671
>JOHN KERRY'S POSSIBLE DEFENSE IN IRAN LEAK UPROAR COULD SHOW HE UNDERMINED TRUMP
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/john-kerrys-defense-iran-leaks-political-risks
In any case, Trump's national security brain trust has been simmering about the Kerry team's interregnum contact with Iranian officials since 2018, when then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faulted him for meeting Zarif at the Munich Security Conference. "I am reasonably confident that he was not there in support of U.S. policy," Pompeo said that September.
Kerry denied "coaching" Zarif on how to respond to Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. "What I have done is tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better," he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Pompeo's team suspects that Kerry and the former officials stiffened Iran's resolve not to negotiate under pressure from Trump, with the expectation that a Democratic president elected on a platform of restoring the nuclear deal would end the pressure campaign.
"It definitely negatively impacted one of our goals, which was to get Iran to the negotiating table as a result of our sanctions, because Iranians felt they had a possible out coming to them in November 2020," former State Department official Gabriel Noronha said.
Noronha, a liaison between the State Department and Congress during Pompeo's tenure, believes that Iranian officials regarded Trump's overtures to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as a sign that a conversation may be fruitful. "There was very much a [sense that if] you call Donald Trump on the phone ... you never know what kind of deal he's going to be in the mood for, and if it's right before the election and he wants an election win, in their minds, they could get a good deal out of it."
That complaint encompasses not only Kerry but other Obama administration alumni who now hold high office.Current Deputy Secretary of StateWendy Sherman acknowledged in 2018 that she had met with Zarif but added she gave the Pompeo team advance notice. "The criticism of us is ludicrous on so many levels," Sherman, a top negotiator of the Iran deal under Kerry, said in response to Pompeo's criticisms.
Another senior member of Obama's national security team, Robert Malley, who is now Biden's special representative for Iran at the State Department, also met with Iranian officials in his capacity as International Crisis Group president.
Former Ambassador Dan Shapiro, who represented the U.S. in Israel during Obama's tenure, defended the meetings as "completely legitimate" when Jewish Insider revealed them in 2019, with the caveat that his colleagues should "guard against giving Iranian officials the impression that they are an alternative outlet to debate U.S. policy. We have one government and one president at a time."
WENDY!
#12993606 at 2021-02-19 01:00:34 (UTC+1)
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Gabriel Noronha @GLNoronha · Feb 17
Speaking of broken promises, Iran committed during the JCPOA negotiations to release Baquer Namazi and to cooperate on Bob Levinson's return. It's been five years and the regime continues to hold U.S. hostages and take more. Enough lies.
@FreeTheNamazis @HelpBobLevinson
Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir · Feb 17
About the #JCPOA, promises were made by the other side. I am saying one thing: We've heard many promises which were broken & contradicted in practice. Mere words don't help. This time only action! Action! If the Islamic Republic sees action from the other side, it will act too.
https://twitter.com/EzraACohen
https://twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1362087730344128515
https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1361959212440502272
#12383835 at 2021-01-07 21:40:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15808: Collusion - ALL ASSETS DEPLOYED Edition
YOU'RE FIRED
Another one bites the dust!
"Gabriel Noronha, who worked on Iran at the State Department and was previously a staffer on Capitol Hill"
"A State Department political appointee was fired by the White House Thursday after tweeting on Wednesday evening that President Donald Trump is unfit for office and was to blame for the mob attack on the US Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the firing.
"President Trump fomented an insurrectionist mob that attacked the Capitol today. He continues to take every opportunity to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power," Gabriel Noronha, who worked on Iran at the State Department and was previously a staffer on Capitol Hill, tweeted. "These actions threaten our democracy and our Republic. Trump is entirely unfit to remain in office, and needs to go."
https://www.kten.com/story/43142185/state-department-political-appointee-fired-by-white-house-after-tweeting-trump-was-unfit-for-office
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#48863 at 2021-04-28 03:04:44 (UTC+1)
QRB General #132: Eyez on Those Ballots Edition
JOHN KERRY'S POSSIBLE DEFENSE IN IRAN LEAK UPROAR COULD SHOW HE UNDERMINED TRUMP
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/john-kerrys-defense-iran-leaks-political-risks
In any case, Trump's national security brain trust has been simmering about the Kerry team's interregnum contact with Iranian officials since 2018, when then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faulted him for meeting Zarif at the Munich Security Conference. "I am reasonably confident that he was not there in support of U.S. policy," Pompeo said that September.
Kerry denied "coaching" Zarif on how to respond to Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. "What I have done is tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better," he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Pompeo's team suspects that Kerry and the former officials stiffened Iran's resolve not to negotiate under pressure from Trump, with the expectation that a Democratic president elected on a platform of restoring the nuclear deal would end the pressure campaign.
"It definitely negatively impacted one of our goals, which was to get Iran to the negotiating table as a result of our sanctions, because Iranians felt they had a possible out coming to them in November 2020," former State Department official Gabriel Noronha said.
Noronha, a liaison between the State Department and Congress during Pompeo's tenure, believes that Iranian officials regarded Trump's overtures to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as a sign that a conversation may be fruitful. "There was very much a [sense that if] you call Donald Trump on the phone ... you never know what kind of deal he's going to be in the mood for, and if it's right before the election and he wants an election win, in their minds, they could get a good deal out of it."
That complaint encompasses not only Kerry but other Obama administration alumni who now hold high office.Current Deputy Secretary of StateWendy Sherman acknowledged in 2018 that she had met with Zarif but added she gave the Pompeo team advance notice. "The criticism of us is ludicrous on so many levels," Sherman, a top negotiator of the Iran deal under Kerry, said in response to Pompeo's criticisms.
Another senior member of Obama's national security team, Robert Malley, who is now Biden's special representative for Iran at the State Department, also met with Iranian officials in his capacity as International Crisis Group president.
Former Ambassador Dan Shapiro, who represented the U.S. in Israel during Obama's tenure, defended the meetings as "completely legitimate" when Jewish Insider revealed them in 2019, with the caveat that his colleagues should "guard against giving Iranian officials the impression that they are an alternative outlet to debate U.S. policy. We have one government and one president at a time."
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#133412 at 2023-10-26 12:40:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #404: Joe Balanos is an American Patriot
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9:00 AM EDT
Social Security Subcommittee Hearing on One Million Claims and Growing: Improving Social Security's Disability Adjudication Process
House Ways and Means Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Linda Kerr-Davis
Acting Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Operations, Social Security Administration
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Jacqueline Russell
President, National Council of Disability Determination Directors
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David Camp
Interim CEO, National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives
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Jennifer Burdick
Co-Chair, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Social Security Task Force
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Mark Warshawsky
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116515
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/event/social-security-subcommittee-hearing-on-one-million-claims-and-growing-improving-social-securitys-disability-adjudication-process/
https://www.youtube.com/user/WandMRepublicans
9:00 AM EDT
Moving the Money: Understanding the Iranian Regime's Access to Money Around the World and How They Use It to Support Terrorism
House Financial Services Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Mr. Richard Goldberg, Senior Advisor, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
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Mr. Gabriel Noronha, Fellow, The Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy, The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)
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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116476
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116476/documents/HHRG-118-BA09-20231026-SD002.pdf
https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=408992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGk9Rou9T4
9:30 AM EDT
Washington Journal: Rep. Jill Tokuda on New House Speaker and Israel-Hamas War
Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-HI) a member of the Armed Services Committee and Progressive Caucus, discusses Rep. Mike Johnson's election as House Speaker, the November 17th government funding deadline, and U.S. response to the Israel-Hamas war.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?531313-8/rep-jill-tokuda-house-speaker-israel-hamas-war&playEvent
9:30 AM EDT
Full Committee Hearing to Examine Federal Offshore Energy Strategy and Policies
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Ms. Elizabeth Klein
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
U.S. Department of the Interior
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The Honorable Janet Coit
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries
U.S. Department of Commerce
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/senate-event/335013
https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2023/10/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-federal-offshore-energy-strategy-and-policies
9:45 AM EDT
Security Council Media Stakeout (MINUSCA; Other matters)
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1i/k1i12l587o
9:45 AM EDT
Navy Recruit Training Command Graduation
Navy boot camp graduation from Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois
https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/33035
10:00 AM EDT
Third Committee, (# of the Meeting TBC) Plenary Meeting - General Assembly, 78th Session
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k17/k17kmb3vxi
10:00 AM EDT
Fourth Committee, 16th Plenary Meeting - General Assembly, 78th Session
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1n/k1np3pb7ab
10:00 AM EDT
General Assembly: Tenth Emergency Special Session (Resumed), 39th Plenary Meeting - legal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Item 5).
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1y/k1yoe0xqge
10:00 AM EDT
Central African Republic - Security Council, 9,454th Meeting
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k1ancndlx4
10:00 AM EDT
Economic and Social Council: 1) 3rd Plenary Meeting, 2024 Session. 2) Informal Meeting.
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k14/k14oicup3h
10:00 AM EDT
Invest-in-Women Global Summit
United Nations
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1s/k1sds2wtv6
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#133388 at 2023-10-25 12:58:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #404: Joe Balanos is an American Patriot
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2:00 PM EDT
The Power of Apprenticeships: Faster, Better Paths to Prosperous Jobs and Less Waste in Higher Education
House Oversight and Accountability Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Dr. Paul Winfree
President & CEO
Economic Policy Innovation Center
^
Erin Davis Valdez
Policy Director, Next Generation Texas
Texas Public Policy Foundation
^
Dr. Casey K. Sacks
President
Bridge Valley Community and Technical College
^
Tony Ewing
President
Advanced Fixtures, Inc.
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116507
https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/the-power-of-apprenticeships-faster-better-paths-to-prosperous-jobs-and-less-waste-in-higher-education/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPQvJT7-B0
2:00 PM EDT
How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran from Evading Sanctions and Financing Terror
House Financial Services Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Mr. Richard Goldberg, Senior Advisor, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
^
Mr. Gabriel Noronha, Fellow, The Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy, The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)
^
Mr. Jason Brodsky, Policy Director, United Against Nuclear Iran
^
Mr. Adam Zarazinski, Chief Executive Officer, Inca Digital
^
Dr. Matthew Levitt, Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116509
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116509/documents/HHRG-118-BA10-20231025-SD002.pdf
https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=408990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjfyq9QdC6Q
2:00 PM EDT
Evaluating Federal Cybersecurity Governance
House Homeland Security Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Eric Goldstein
Executive Assistant Director, Cybersecurity Division, CISA
^
Chris DeRusha
Federal Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Management and Budget and Deputy National Cyber Director for Federal Cyber, ONCD
^
https://homeland.house.gov/2023/10/19/media-advisory-garbarino-announces-subcommittee-hearing-on-federal-cybersecurity-efforts/
https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/evaluating-federal-cybersecurity-governance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue7GcfWRHd0
2:00 PM EDT
Health Subcommittee Hearing: "Supporting Access to Long-Term Services and Supports: An Examination of the Impacts of Proposed Regulations on Workforce and Access to Care"
House Energy and Commerce Committee
https://energycommerce.house.gov/events/health-subcommittee-hearing-supporting-access-to-long-term-services-and-supports-an-examination-of-the-impacts-of-proposed-regulations-on-workforce-and-access-to-care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaE67Ufichg
2:00 PM EDT
The U.S.-Honduras Bilateral Relationship: Analyzing the Socialist Government of President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Mr. Eric Jacobstein
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
U.S. Department of State
^
Ms. Mileydi Guilarte
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
U.S. Agency for International Development
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116502
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/the-u-s-honduras-bilateral-relationship-analyzing-the-socialist-government-of-president-xiomara-castro-de-zelaya/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38YCBOE2QAM
2:00 PM EDT
The Global Engagement Center: Helping or Hurting U.S. Foreign Policy
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
^
WITNESSES:
Daniel Kimmage
Principal Deputy Coordinator
Global Engagement Center
^
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116506
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/the-global-engagement-center-helping-or-hurting-u-s-foreign-policy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPCD0VGmmok
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