Barack Obama released high level Iranian operatives as part of the nuclear deal

  This may sound like old news but there are new details on Barack Obama’s decision to release prisoners in exchange for the nuclear deal so here we go:

  You may remember that as part of the Iranian nuclear deal the President released several Iranian-Americans who were being held in prison. He claimed at that time these people “were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses.” Here is more:

When President Barack Obama announced the “one-time gesture” of releasing Iranian-born prisoners who “were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses” last year, his administration presented the move as a modest trade-off for the greater good of the Iran nuclear agreement and Tehran’s pledge to free five Americans.

“Iran had a significantly higher number of individuals, of course, at the beginning of this negotiation that they would have liked to have seen released,” one senior Obama administration official told reporters in a background briefing arranged by the White House, adding that “we were able to winnow that down to these seven individuals, six of whom are Iranian-Americans.”

  However, the word “charged” seems to be the key word in his statement because according to this report this trade-off was not as innocuous as it seems and these people were not as innocent as Barack Obama would have had us believe. It looks as if Barack Obama downplayed this prisoner swap for reasons which will become obvious shortly. Here is more:

But Obama, the senior official and other administration representatives weren’t telling the whole story on Jan. 17, 2016, in their highly choreographed rollout of the prisoner swap and simultaneous implementation of the six-party nuclear deal, according to a POLITICO investigation.

In reality, some of them were accused by Obama’s own Justice Department of posing threats to national security. Three allegedly were part of an illegal procurement network supplying Iran with U.S.-made microelectronics with applications in surface-to-air and cruise missiles like the kind Tehran test-fired recently, prompting a still-escalating exchange of threats with the Trump administration. Another was serving an eight-year sentence for conspiring to supply Iran with satellite technology and hardware.

  Barack Obama’s Justice Department did in fact believe these people were threats to national security and one of them was serving an eight year prison sentence for conspiring with Iran so even is statement that none of them were charged with a crime was a lie–or rather a misrepresentation of the truth, he might not have been charged with a violent crime but he was found guilty of working against the United States’ interests. Semantics is a game Barack Obama was pretty efficient at playing…

  But here is the kicker:

The biggest fish, though, was Seyed Abolfazl Shahab Jamili, who had been charged with being part of a conspiracy that from 2005 to 2012 procured thousands of parts with nuclear applications for Iran via China. That included hundreds of U.S.-made sensors for the uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran whose progress had prompted the nuclear deal talks in the first place.

  He actually released a man who was helping Iran secure parts for the program which led to the sanctions in the first place! I am at a loss for words here, it sounds as if these men were engaged in treason by working against the United States and working for a hostile government and yet Barack Obama turned them over as part of the nuclear deal. This is absolutely unbelievable, or at least is should be but this somehow does not surprise me in the least–in fact it confirms what many of us thought at the time. The only question is, whose side was Barack Obama on?

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