Trump to Stop Buying Nuclear Materials from Iran
November 30, 2017
Daniel Greenfield

If that headline appears to make no sense, I have one word for you. Obama.

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The Obama administration sparked controversy in Congress and the national security world when it announced in late 2016 that it would spend more than $8 million dollars to purchase Iranian heavy water, a nuclear byproduct, in a bid to keep the Islamic Republic in line with restrictions on these materials imposed under the nuclear agreement.

The Obama administration, in what lawmakers described as a "potentially illegal" taxpayer-funded transaction, paid at least $8.6 million to purchase 32 metric tons of heavy water from Iran. The nuclear byproduct can be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium, which is why restrictions were initially placed on Tehran's stockpile.

The transaction occurred via an offshore third-party, according to U.S. officials, who made clear at the time that it would engage in further purchases if they were needed to help keep Iran in compliance with the nuclear deal.

After leaving the door open to additional purchases, senior Trump administration officials confirmed to the Free Beacon on Wednesday that the U.S. government would no longer engage in these nuclear transactions with Iran, a major policy shift that sources say is part of an effort to crackdown on Iran's access to U.S. funds.

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Cue Ben Rhodes, Ploughshares and their media echo chamber to start beating the drums of doom. Before long we'll see editorials warning that President Trump is pushing Iran to go nuclear. Except Iran has never stopped pursuing its nuclear program. The only thing that has changed is how easy it's become for Iran to get the money and materials it needs.

Obama was buying drugs from a drug dealer while claiming to fight drug use.

Trump is following up on a Senator Tom Cotton bill that didn't make it through the Senate.

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The Senate on Wednesday blocked a Republican effort aimed at undercutting last year’s landmark international nuclear deal with Iran.

The Senate fell three votes short of the 60-vote threshold — 57-42 — to move ahead on the amendment sponsored by freshman Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. Cotton’s proposed provision would have barred the United States from using taxpayer dollars to buy any more Iranian “heavy water.” The proposal had triggered a war of words with the White House.

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Here's a cheerful piece quoting Ernest Moniz, the "genius" who openly lied to Congress about the nuke sellout.

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The heavy water purchase could open the floodgates to other collaborations with Iran. According to the nuclear agreement, Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment facility is slated to become an international science and technology center. There, Russia is reconfiguring uranium-enrichment centrifuges to produce iridium-191; adding a neutron at the reconfigured Arak reactor would yield iridium-192, which is used in gamma cameras to check for structural flaws in metal. With the D2O deal done and dusted, Moniz says he has asked DOE rank-and-file “to begin thinking about other areas of collaboration.”

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Collaboration? Is that anything like collusion?

Maybe we can finally take a look at flying out millions in foreign currency to terrorists.

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