{"id":15777,"date":"2015-08-06T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T17:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15777"},"modified":"2015-08-06T10:36:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T17:36:02","slug":"obama-justifies-iran-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/06\/obama-justifies-iran-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Justifies Iran Policy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Recently, Barack Obama has given some thoroughly impressive speeches, and in my view, he has clearly outdone himself once again in his defense of his Iran Policy at American University.&#160; I found myself so impressed that I consider the speech a \u201cmust watch\u201d event for Americans who want to know how to overcome seditious Republican attempts to destroy the world\u2019s efforts to deny Iran nuclear arms, so Republicans can deny success to Obama.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0806irannonukes\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0806irannonukes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0806irannonukes.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Obama took on critics of the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers in an aggressive speech on Wednesday, saying they were <strong>the same people who created the \u201cdrumbeat of war\u201d and played on public fears to push the United States into the Iraq war more than a decade ago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not mince words: The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy and some sort of war \u2014 maybe not tomorrow, maybe not three months from now, but soon,\u201d Mr. Obama told about 200 people in a speech at American University. \u201cHow can we in good conscience justify war before we\u2019ve tested a diplomatic agreement that achieves our objectives?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama, opening a new, more overtly political phase of his public campaign for the accord, portrayed the coming vote in Congress to approve or reject the deal as the most consequential foreign policy decision for lawmakers since Congress voted in 2003 to authorize the invasion of Iraq. He implored them to \u201cshut out the noise\u201d and back the deal\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/06\/us\/politics\/obama-urges-critics-of-iran-deal-to-ignore-drumbeat-of-war.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/hopes-and-dreams.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hopes and Dreams<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the complete video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FOHOw2izlbU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For the transcript, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/08\/05\/text-obama-gives-a-speech-about-the-iran-nuclear-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The video is almost an hour in length, but in it, Obama demolished every possible argument against the international policy.&#160; That\u2019s why I said, it\u2019s \u201cmust watch\u201d for those who want peace, as opposed to the Republican path to war.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Barack Obama has given some thoroughly impressive speeches, and in my view, he has clearly outdone himself once again in his defense of his Iran Policy at American University.&#160; I found myself so impressed that I consider the speech a \u201cmust watch\u201d event for Americans who want to know how to overcome seditious Republican <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/06\/obama-justifies-iran-policy\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}