Japan will lift Iran sanctions following nuclear deal

As this progress was being reviewed and certified by worldwide authorities, the Iranians released five individuals, all dual U.S.-Iranian citizens, they had been holding for several years. Commentators at the time said they thought the Ayatollah Khomeini believed Reagan was a “cowboy” and might actually drop a nuclear bomb on Iran if the Americans were not freed. Well, he could have if they didn’t give Iran $100 billion in the first place or had been a halfway competent negotiator. The reaction of the Obama administration to the incident has also been utterly feckless, owing to the total lack of willingness to do anything except kiss the boots of the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, which has the blood of hundreds of Americans and many other victims on its hands.

He also said that there are such great demands on the Iranian government to develop the country that “there is no way they can succeed in what they want to do if they are very busy funding a lot of terrorism”.

The U.S. administration has long argued that the nuclear deal does not cover other elements of Iran’s allegedly bad behavior and that Washington will continue to press Iran to change its ways and punish it when necessary. Contrarily, President Obama and his administration were confident and tenacious in their convictions that diplomatic negotiations, and not war, were the only way to achieve mutually beneficial goals.

“We have deals that are being worked out with Airbus — all sorts of companies from nuclear technology companies, to irrigation, green energy… a whole range of them”, he said, without elaborating.

In order to grasp why a potential opening would have to be carefully managed, one has to understand the strategic imperative behind Iranian anti-Americanism. The penalties were imposed Sunday, a day after the USA and other nations lifted sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program.

The past weekend’s flurry of activity underscored the importance of increased U.S.-Iranian engagement, which could lead to a thawing of relations between the two countries after more than 35 years of hostility.

The Japanese Cabinet approved Friday the lifting of sanctions on Iran, following the recent completion of a landmark deal to try to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. “Iran has been provoked time and again”. As the USA and Iran ironed out the final details of a prisoner exchange and coordinated the implementation of the complex nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic’s deep state went on a spree. Iran still supports terrorist groups like Hezbollah, props up the Assad regime in Syria, tests ballistic missiles in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolutions, and fails to recognize Israel’s right to exist.

The news has been welcomed by the majority of the global community sympathetic to Iran, which has had to soldier on without doing normal business openly as other nations do.

Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed Europe’s refugee crisis on Thursday and agreed to work together in the coming months to help protect and provide for millions of war refugees, the White House said. The only way to move forward was through dialogue between the USA and Iran, and it worked.

Tom Carper, a Democrat, is a retired Navy captain, former naval flight officer and Delaware’s senior US senator.