[ April 18, 2024 ]
Mind blown. Imagine if FDR gave citizenship to Nazi officials and their families.
Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians during nuclear deal: Iran official
The Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, including family members of government officials, while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, a senior cleric and member of parliament has claimed.
By Chris irvine, FOX News, July 2, 2019:
Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour, who is chairman of Iran’s parliamentary nuclear committee and a member of its national security and foreign affairs committee, made the allegations during an interview with the country’s Etemad newspaper, cited by the country’s Fars News agency.
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The Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, including family members of government officials, while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, a senior cleric and member of parliament has claimed.
Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour, who is chairman of Iran’s parliamentary nuclear committee and a member of its national security and foreign affairs committee, made the allegations during an interview with the country’s Etemad newspaper, cited by the country’s Fars News agency.
He claimed it was done as a favor to senior Iranian officials linked to President Hassan Rouhani, and he alleged the move sparked a competition among Iranian officials over whose children would benefit from the scheme.
Several children of current and former Iranian officials live in the United States, including Ali Fereydoun, whose father Hossein Fereydoun (left) is the brother of and special aide to President Rouhani (right)Several children of current and former Iranian officials live in the United States, including Ali Fereydoun, whose father Hossein Fereydoun (left) is the brother of and special aide to President Rouhani (right) (Getty)
He claimed that the deal was made during negotiations for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was reached in July 2015. President Trump announced in May that the U.S. would withdraw from the agreement.
“When Obama, during the negotiations about the JCPOA, decided to do a favor to these men, he granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians and some officials started a competition over whose children could be part of these 2,500 Iranians,” he claimed.
“If today these Iranians get deported from America, it will become clear who is complicit and sells the national interest like he is selling candies to America.”
The conservative Zolnour, who is in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inner circle, added: “It should be stated exactly which children of which authorities live in the United States and have received citizenship or residency.”
He estimated that between 30 and 60 were studying in the U.S. while the rest of them were working in the country “against our national interests.”
Though Zolnour did not mention anyone by name during the interview, several children of current and former Iranian officials live in the United States, including Ali Fereydoun, whose father Hossein Fereydoun is the brother of and special aide to Rouhani; and Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, whose father Ali Larijani is speaker of parliament.
There is no suggestion either of these people received citizenship in the wake of the Iranian nuclear deal. It’s also unclear if Zolnour meant citizenship or a green card.
In 2015, 13,114 people born in Iran were issued green cards, while 13,298 were issued one in 2016, according to figures from the Department for Homeland Security. In 2015, 10,344 Iranians became naturalized, with a further 9,507 in 2016.
Recent anti-regime protests in Iran increase in sizeVideoAsked about the cleric’s claim, a State Department spokesperson said: “We’re not going to comment on every statement by an Iranian official.”
Fox News analyst and former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf was dubious of the Iranian official’s allegation. “This sounds like totally made up BS,” she said.
The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment. A representative for Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson also could not be reached for comment.
The cleric’s claim could, in the U.S., fuel Republican complaints about the concessions made by the Obama administration during that period — including not just sanctions relief, but the $1.7 billion payment supposedly tied to a legal settlement that coincided with the 2016 release of American prisoners.
Iran has been beset by economic protests in recent days; a group of protesters chant slogans at the old grand bazaar in Tehran on MondayIran has been beset by economic protests in recent days; a group of protesters chant slogans at the old grand bazaar in Tehran on Monday (AP)
And in Iran, they could fuel resentment toward Tehran’s elite.
“Many ordinary Iranians are surprised and feel betrayed that children of the regime officials live and work in the U.S.,” Saeed Ghasseminejad, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based research institute, told Fox News. “The regime officials chant death to America but send their children to the U.S., away from the hell they have created in Iran over the past four decades.”
How the Obama administration misled the US on the Iran dealVideoGhasseminejad said some Iranians have called for their deportation from America: “Iranians don’t understand why the U.S. government allows the offspring of the regime officials to live in the U.S., while the U.S. has introduced a travel ban for ordinary Iranian citizens and many Americans are imprisoned in Iran. That is why many Iranians on social media have been urging the U.S. government to deport the children of the regime officials.”
Iran is one of seven countries included in Trump’s travel ban, upheld last week by the Supreme Court.
The country has been beset by a series of economic protests in recent days as the country’s currency, the rial, crashes.
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39 Comments
4 years ago
I hope they hang him and his followers for high treason and terrorism.
4 years ago
Reply to
mofromUS
He is not alone. Dems were paid by Iranian lobbyists to support Nuke deal http://tinyurl.com/mcake4d
And their holdovers still support it.
Its all about money. Anyone pays them they will sell out American interests.
china, Iran, qatar even pukistan know it and they have been screwing up America for decades now
4 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
True, they are all driven by greed for money and money gives them power. We need to break the money train
4 years ago
Reply to
mofromUS
In public, on national TV, along with Jarrett, Holder, the Hildebeeste, John “riverboat” Kerry et.al.
4 years ago
BARRY!! Thanks Pamela for the opportunity to Upload a few of my favorite Obama Memes!
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Secret Iranian Nuclear Weapons Facility Still Up and Running
– Report: ‘Everything required to enrich uranium to weapons grade could be quickly reconstituted’
– https://freebeacon.com/national-security/secret-iranian-nuclear-weapons-facility-still-up-and-running/
– there was NO Iran nuke deal, nothing was EVER signed
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
In flagrante delicto [caught in the act]:
“IAEA finds traces of radioactive material at Iran site flagged by Netanyahu”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tv-iaea-finds-traces-of-radioactive-material-at-iran-site-named-by-netanyahu/
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Only a fool would believe the mad mullahs ever stopped their enriching of plutonium or their nuclear bomb programs. Obama Is not a moron so he was complicit and gave them over and this will eventually be known when the Great Tragedy occurs.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
THE BEST
– explanation of Obama’s’ efforts to ‘rescue’ Iran
– comes from the Communist Manifesto
– because Marx saw capitalists as Imperialist exploiters
– who ripped off resources at bargain prices
– and enslaved local populations
– that was not true, and every ‘colony’
– mostly benefited from external influences, and business
– but nevertheless, Obama believed he had to ‘rescue’ Iran
– from evil capitalist petroleum exploiters
– and so, giving nukes to Iran
– was supposed to ‘restore the balance’
4 years ago
Reply to
neptune joe
Not even funnyy for the kids growing up today we the USA will look like Germany,France and England if this muzscum cult is not stopped from invading our country.
4 years ago
It is no mystery that Obama reveres Iran; his granting citizenship to 2,500 Iranians is only one of his numerous plots to undermine this Republic. The Constitutional Republic, he has detested for decades, especially when handed the presidency. Meanwhile, this treasonous turd, idolized by the MSM, the Democrats, and every half-baked, wannabe revolutionary whose malevolent intent aligns with Obama’s.
Indeed, Obama and others should face indictment for High Treason and sponsoring Jihad, but it will never pass; the government institutions and others are rife with Obama embeds and enablers whose ambitions are akin to his.
4 years ago
Pamela- your hero, Obama, told us that, “Everyone (in the world) has the right to live the American Dream.”
So OF COURSE that means a shiite-load of insider influence regarding a legitimate faction that receives citizenship.
Same reasons the Kufr are not worthy of asylum in America – INCLUDING Tommy.
See Also: the real reason why Obola care quickly eliminated some 2000 medical codes (no doubt related to treatment of the Kufr), while some months later, approved some 13,000 new medical codes, (no doubt related to treatment of the anti-Kufr) :
#KingFeces
#SupremacistMuzzPrivilege
#GlobalHealthRedistribution
4 years ago
Imam Obama left quite a legacy.
4 years ago
The Kenyan Marxist Hyena giving the finger to America or was he exhibiting what he wanted to do to his butt buddy?
4 years ago
It was a gift to Valerie Jarrett. Obama made sure there are thousands of muslim terror cell seeds came into the country.
4 years ago
Learning of O’s foreign background and anti-American friends (Bernardette Dohrn etc)and anti-life stance in 2007-2008, I warned co-workers and others to not vote for him. Oh well, to them, McLame-Palin were worse.
4 years ago
The Antichrist
4 years ago
Evil Obama. I like this heading.
4 years ago
Obama may be Muslim but it is clear that he favors Iranian Shiite Muslims, no doubt influenced by Shiite Muslim Valerie Jarrett. Who was born and raised in Iran. The Sunni Muslms and the Shiite Muslims are mortal enemies. So with Obama out of the White house this now explains why the Sunni Saudis were so thrilled seeing Trump Win
4 years ago
Reply to
1PierreMontagne1
America has to be very careful who they vote in…no more Obama Muslim mania. American blacks love Malcolm x watch out
4 years ago
Obumfook is an Islamomarxist poofter
4 years ago
Many of them were relocated to tropical Florida where they were sent to college, they started businesses. Florida = Jihad Central
4 years ago
Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians during nuclear deal: Iran official
Translation: should read. Obama imported 2500 potential terrorists and saboteurs to form sleeper 5th columns Stupid Americans why do we bring our enemies into our country, give them welfare far in excess of its citizens and train them in our universities on how best ot destroy us.
4 years ago
All of these so-called “citizens” need to be rounded up and interned until the Iran Crisis has come to conclusion.All are potential enemy agents and saboteurs.
4 years ago
To elect an Islamist as a president, this has long been determined by Islam it must be.
4 years ago
iran is not nazi germany ,no need for that extreme characterization . the iranian govt has not slaughtered 5 million jews . yes iran is a hostile nation that also hates israel but stop the sensationalism .
4 years ago
Looking at that picture of Obama, I wonder just what he was pining for.
4 years ago
4 years ago
And the idiots in this country put him in twice.
