{"id":5584,"date":"2016-09-23T21:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T02:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2016-09-23T21:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T02:34:57","slug":"documents-show-obama-knew-about-irans-nuclear-plans-lied-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5584\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents Show Obama Knew About Iran\u2019s Nuclear Plans, Lied About Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-image has-photo-credit\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption-processed\" title=\"AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_full\/public\/uploads\/2016\/08\/barack_obama_ap.jpg?itok=_yGCwMbd\" width=\"921\" height=\"450.5\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-authors inline\">\n<div class=\"field-label\">By: <a id=\"community-tab\" class=\"publisher-nav-color\" href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/home\/forums\/thedailywire\/\" data-action=\"community-sidebar\" data-forum=\"thedailywire\"><span class=\"community-name\"><strong>The Daily Wire &#8211; <\/strong><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/search\/site?f[0]=im_field_authors%3A252&amp;f[1]=bundle%3Aarticle\">Michael Qazvini<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Documents obtained by the Associated Press in June show that the Obama administration had intimate knowledge of Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions and opted to sign the nuclear deal anyway.<\/p>\n<p>According to the secret documents only accessible to US and Iranian negotiators during President Obama\u2019s whirlwind PR campaign to sell the deal to the American public, Iran will plan on replacing its centrifuges with thousands of highly advanced, updated models after 10 years. These new centrifuges are five-times more efficient and capable of enriching uranium, the primary component in a nuclear bomb, twice as fast, cutting Iran\u2019s nuclear breakout time from 12 months, as Obama had promised, to just six months.<\/p>\n<p>While the deal still places some provisions against enrichment until about the 15th year mark, it\u2019s unclear which enforcement mechanisms remain in place during the cooling period at the 10-year mark, when Iran will be given more free reign to produce \u201cpeaceful\u201d nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the Obama administration knew about this and struck side deals to ensure that Iran\u2019s requested concessions would be approved demonstrates the sheer risk US negotiators took when they shook hands with their Iranian counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe document outlines how Iran plans to escalate its uranium enrichment efforts with the blessing of the Obama administration until it reaches the point where a nuclear breakout would require only a few weeks of work,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2016\/07\/20\/the-iran-nuclear-deal-continues-to-unravel\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=thf-tw\">explains<\/a> The Daily Signal\u2019s James Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>Adding insult to injury, Iran has praised the leak documents as illustrations of Iranian power and sway. The provisions in the documents were carefully crafted by Iranian \u201cnegotiators and industry experts,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2016\/07\/20\/the-iran-nuclear-deal-continues-to-unravel\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=thf-tw\">claimed<\/a> Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. \u00a0It comes down to a \u201cmatter of pride.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By: The Daily Wire &#8211; Michael Qazvini Documents obtained by the Associated Press in June show that the Obama administration had intimate knowledge of Iran\u2019s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5584\/\" title=\"Documents Show Obama Knew About Iran\u2019s Nuclear Plans, Lied About Them\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5586,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}