Biden Administration's Gift to Russia: Iran Nuke Deal

by Majid Rafizadeh
October 1, 2022 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18945/biden-russia-iran-nuke-deal

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stunningly made it clear to US lawmakers that the Biden administration will not stand in the way of Russia cashing in on the $10 billion contract as well as Russia-Iran nuclear cooperation. And the State Department spokesman Ned Price reiterated the Biden administration's stance by pointing out: "We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA".
"The Biden administration is so desperate for a deal with Iran they'll broker a $10 billion payoff to Russia and waive their own sanctions to make it happen." — US Representative Darrell Issa, Washington Free Beacon, May 2, 2022.
In addition, the Biden administration is trusting Russia to conduct the nuclear negotiations on behalf of the US; to be the sole country to oversee compliance of the nuclear deal, and to keep Iran's highly enriched uranium -- able to return it to Iran if the mullahs request it, or possibly even use it themselves.
Fifty bipartisan US lawmakers urgeed the Biden administration "not to permit Russia to be the recipient of Iran's enriched uranium nor to have the right to conduct nuclear work with the Islamic Republic, including a $10 billion contract to expand Iran's nuclear infrastructure. We should not let war criminal Vladimir Putin be the guarantor of the deal or the keeper of massive amounts of Iran's enriched uranium. Iran supports the illegal war in Ukraine and has been supplying Russia with drones used to kill Ukrainians."
"This Iran Deal if and when it is announced will be a massive win for Vladimir Putin." — US Senator Ted Cruz, Fox News, March 9, 2022.
"Mr President, you're the only one in America doing business with the Russians, stop doing business with the Russians. Don't have them negotiating for us, walk on this deal." — US Senator Jim Risch, Fox News, March 9, 2022.
The Biden administration nevertheless appears determined to give Russia the biggest gift ever: an Iran nuclear deal, complete with enriched uranium for nuclear bombs to be used whenever Russia or Iran decide.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stunningly made it clear to US lawmakers that the Biden administration will not stand in the way of Russia cashing in on a $10 billion contract to expand Iran's nuclear infrastructure. Pictured: The reactor building of the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

The Biden administration is still hoping to revive the nuclear deal with the ruling mullahs of Iran and to keep the US Congress out of it, perhaps during the Christmas break when Congress is not in session. The Biden administration's nuclear deal will not only be a win for the ruling mullahs of Iran, but also for Iran's staunch ally, Russia.

First of all, Biden's new deal will gift Russia by allowing it to cash in on a $10 billion contract to expand Iran's nuclear infrastructure. Russian President Vladimir Putin will most likely have a stake in the $10 billion contract. In fact, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stunningly made it clear to US lawmakers that the Biden administration will not stand in the way of Russia cashing in on the $10 billion contract as well as Russia-Iran nuclear cooperation. And the State Department spokesman Ned Price reiterated the Biden administration's stance by pointing out:

"We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA".

That is a total capitulation to two tyrants and authoritarian regimes: the Ayatollahs' and Putin's. As US Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) accurately pointed out:

"The Biden administration is so desperate for a deal with Iran they'll broker a $10 billion payoff to Russia and waive their own sanctions to make it happen."

In addition, the Biden administration is trusting Russia to conduct the nuclear negotiations on behalf of the US; to be the sole country to oversee compliance with the nuclear deal, and to keep Iran's highly enriched uranium -- able to return it to Iran if the mullahs request it. This provision triggered 50 bipartisan US lawmakers to write to Biden:

"[W]e strongly urge your Administration not to permit Russia to be the recipient of Iran's enriched uranium nor to have the right to conduct nuclear work with the Islamic Republic, including a $10 billion contract to expand Iran's nuclear infrastructure. We should not let war criminal Vladimir Putin be the guarantor of the deal or the keeper of massive amounts of Iran's enriched uranium. Iran supports the illegal war in Ukraine and has been supplying Russia with drones used to kill Ukrainians."

Biden's new nuclear deal will lift sanctions on the Iranian regime and open the flow of billions of dollars to the ruling mullahs who are providing weapons to Russia in the Ukraine, to prolong the war and cause even more damage to Ukrainians. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) supplied Russia with hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including advanced models capable of firing missiles. A Russian delegation recently visited an airfield in central Iran on several occasions to examine Iran's weapons-capable drones.

Many US Senators have slammed the Biden administration for working with Russia on the new Iran nuclear deal while Putin continues his slaughter in Ukraine. "This Iran Deal if and when it is announced will be a massive win for Vladimir Putin," Senator Ted Cruz said during the press conference.

"Because the Biden administration has been eager to tell Putin and tell the Ayatollah of course we will have a carveout for the Iran deal on Russia sanctions which means Putin will make billions in oil and gas transactions, in nuclear transactions, and in weapons transactions."

Senator Jim Risch added:

"Mr President, you're the only one in America doing business with the Russians, stop doing business with the Russians. Don't have them negotiating for us, walk on this deal."

Working with Russia to get a deal on Iran nuclear program is "insane," Senator Joni Ernst rightly put it.

"Russia, this is the country with tanks running over Ukraine right now killing innocent civilians... Children, women, people that we care about and yet they're using those Russians to negotiate a deal with yet another one of our near-peer adversaries, Iran."

Senator John Barrasso also echoed other Senators' message by stating:

"It's the Russians who are doing the negotiations on behalf of the United States. You turn on the TV and radio and see what the Russians are doing in Ukraine. How in the world can we allow them to negotiate on our behalf?"

The Biden administration nevertheless appears determined to give Russia the biggest gift ever: an Iran nuclear deal, complete with enriched uranium for nuclear bombs to be used whenever Russia or Iran decide.

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US Foreign Policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu

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29 Reader Comments

Luz Maria Rodriguez • Oct 2, 2022 at 14:54

"...clear to US lawmakers that the Biden administration will not stand in the way of Russia cashing in on the $10 billion contract as well as Russia-Iran nuclear cooperation."

Of course, they would not. Incredibly, these people asked Russia and others to negotiate with Iran as American negotiators. How stupid is that? Answer: It is suicidally stupid. One is always reminded of former President Obama's advice re Biden: "Never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to f___ things up."
Holy smokes was he not kidding.

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andrea karambelas • Oct 2, 2022 at 14:03

The Iran deal on all levels seems treasonous to me. When you add that The Biden Administration is trusting the Russians on the negotiation of the nuclear deal ....it's so dangerously bizarre. It has rendered me speechless.

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Luz Maria Rodriguez

andrea karambelas • Oct 9, 2022 at 17:20

Me too. I just could not believe it when i first read how Biden/Blinken selected Russia and China to negotiate with Iran for the US. It seemed like a type of typo error. But stunningly it was deliberate. They are either suicidally stupid or suicidally drugged up fantasizers. Or probably both.

The Chinese delegates who put down Blinken in that Alaska meeting approaching two years ago must now be fully convinced Blinken is symbolic of America's fall.

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Celeste Smith

Luz Maria Rodriguez • Nov 6, 2022 at 01:46

The whole administration sold their souls to China. Blackmail is a powerful weapon. They have blood on their hands. When does it stop?
Population Control and Elite Hijacking created by the Western Government. Half of them didn't even know they were placed in a compromising position until it was too late to get out! Karma can be destructive to the most vulnerable, yet created by the stupidity of greed.

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shloime • Oct 2, 2022 at 12:06

There's also the issue of timing. now would be a good time to make political hay over the Iran deal, especially since the Biden administration is trying to "go dark" on it before the election. by the Christmas break, it will not cost the democrats any votes. and even then, there's no reason to believe that Biden will submit the deal for congressional approval, because Obama never did.

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cammo99 • Oct 2, 2022 at 08:26

Secrecy is a bad start and that is what this deal represents the worse sort of government. Kerry Obama Biden made it a condition yet they looted the American people to make it happen. And that is the secret where does all that money go. In DC there is less and less accountability and more and more secrecy behind the Presidential warrants to steal from the American people for some vain glorious catholic socialist's agenda we have never been informed of. The Biden Pelosi presidency refers to the meeting with the Pope and attack our constitutional form of government and pretend the USA is a democracy ruled by them with a majority, facts never in evidence. Where did they get that authority people ask? Executive Orders? The great reset should bring the USA back to a Constitutional democratic Republic, with less democrat influence not more to the point of pompous pontifical tyranny.

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Nessie509 • Oct 1, 2022 at 20:36

Why are Democrats so eager to let Iran build a nuke? Iran has repeatedly said they intend to destroy Israel. They aren't kidding.

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Richard Kronenfeld

Nessie509 • Oct 2, 2022 at 14:59

Ask Barack Obama. This is his policy.

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Babbler • Oct 1, 2022 at 20:12

If it's bad for America Biden does it.

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Gunnar Henrioulle • Oct 1, 2022 at 13:01

General McAuliffe said "The Poor Bastards Have Got Us Surrounded" Rather than go on about the inherent ability of America to survive nuclear threats from several directions, albeit far reduced from World Power status, please look at near term scenarios. Demonic influence in American leadership clearly manifests in willingness to force Israel to the wall; Greater Islam acquiesces.

We do not have to look in the last New Testament book of "Revelation" to envision cornered Israeli military action on underground Iranian nuclear facilities, deepest of which dug out by repeated strikes. Iran makes it known by words & actions by proxies their intent to remove the Jew from their Covenant land. Strategic think tanks have published estimates of a Billion casualty Middle East War.

Deathwish Democrats unable to think past 1619 do not fathom their Capitol is
target number one when the missiles take flight. This is how Old Testament Deuteronomy Chapter 28 V-15 looks in America, boys & girls. See William Forstchen primer on famine. See Daniel Chapter 4 with attention to V-15.

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Luz Maria Rodriguez

Gunnar Henrioulle • Oct 10, 2022 at 12:46

"...Democrats unable to think past 1619 do not fathom their Capitol is target number one when the missiles take flight."

This is soo true. DC, NY, VA (think CIA) are target #1. Of course, there will be many others in the first wave but DC will definitely be first to be taken out. The left is unable cognitively to understand their plight.

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Mark Zanghetti • Oct 1, 2022 at 11:04

Can he be impeached somehow over this, he ought to be!

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1Cedar • Oct 1, 2022 at 10:00

Can Americans not stop this? Is there no political will to identify Iran & Russia as enemies of the West?

As a Brit, I sometimes have strong reservations about American foreign policy: the corrupt & inept reconstruction of Iraq, after an illegitimate invasion, plunged that region into chaos. Only Iran benefits, strengthening its proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon & Israel. But Biden's courtship of Iran is wrong beyond measure. And allowing Russia to act as guarantor is absurd.

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Luz Maria Rodriguez

1Cedar • Oct 9, 2022 at 10:54

"...the corrupt & inept reconstruction of Iraq, after an illegitimate invasion, plunged that region into chaos."

One could almost draw the conclusion (as the goal of the sick globalists) that this was a deliberate consequence. IF it were true, it says all one needs to know about their immoral, unethical ways.

It is stunning the degree to which Obama and Biden appear to want Iran to become a nuclear power. The conclusions of such foolishness are limited: 1) these stupid people WANT war and a NUKE exchange between Israel and Iran; 2) these stupid people want and are setting up for a nuke exchange between America and Iran. Either way, arguably they want the death of millions of citizens of the ME. The USA now is led by complete fools. IF elections have consequences and, assuming the American electorate really elected that life-long grifter, America is clearly heading downhill.

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Allan Dobzyniak, M.D. • Oct 1, 2022 at 09:16

When something makes absolutely no sense, there must be alternative agendas in play. It is still not possible to identify the true policy makers in the so called Biden administration even after 2 years. So much for the mainstream media which seems disinterested. Mr. Biden is definitely not the impetus behind all that surrounds the deception labeled "the Iran nuclear deal." The fortunate circumstance to our invisible leftist policy makers is to have a useful dunce at point. That said Mr. Biden is already being relegated to obscurity for 2024 by his own party proves this point.
This will become clear someday, hopefully though not too late.

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Luz Maria Rodriguez

Allan Dobzyniak, M.D. • Oct 10, 2022 at 16:33

Yes, Doc, either alternative agendas, or definitely a undercover agenda before sufficient voters wake up. The puppet string pullers may not be obvious, however, one can surmise with quite a bit of probability. When we consider Klain, Jarrett, Rice, the liar, it is not difficult to guesstimate at least the nature of those people. They cry and lie about the Jan. 6th "insurrection" while covering for the November 2020 coup. George Soros said he had been frustrated with Obama's Admin for NOT doing enough; he must be deliriously happy these days with this incoherent puppet in our White House. Should the Dems pull off another election debacle and win again, it will sadly be too late. VDH has some really great discussions on our current sad state.

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David Elstrom • Oct 1, 2022 at 09:07

If Republicans are serious about blocking the Iran Nuclear "Deal," they will emphasize it was never properly ratified, and then push another vote in the Senate to underscore it is not a valid treaty. My money says Republicans will do nothing except whine about the atrocious details, but normal Americans see the Democrat regime's treachery and malignant hatred for America.

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Peter Rotberg • Oct 1, 2022 at 08:56

How generous! Should anyone ask President Biden on whose account is he given those billions of dollars to the nowadays Axis of Evil. Isn't it by any chance at the account of US taxpayers who had already been hardly managed by the present disastrous Administration.

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A John Curtis • Oct 1, 2022 at 08:49

USA is allowing itself to be eclipsed by Russia and Iran. Not a good policy for free societies.

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Mark Zanghetti

A John Curtis • Oct 1, 2022 at 14:20

Don't forget what China is trying to do, with trying to eclipse the US on the world stage.

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Peter Rotberg • Oct 1, 2022 at 06:57

How generous Mr. Biden is to the Nowadays Axis of Evil!!!!, And who should inquire on account of whom ? Isn't it by any chance by the account of US taxpayers?? Weren't they already badly damaged by Biden's financial strategy?? Enough is Enough and till when ? Rely on wisdom of the Great American Nation. Vox Populi Vox Dei. Peter Rotberg Alarm Bells Ringer.

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Tershia • Oct 1, 2022 at 06:18

In my humble opinion, this is an unnecessary conflict. Russia, Ukraine and Western politicians are all warmongering and have the blood of innocent civilians on their hands.
How can Americans allow a demented old man to have his finger on the 'nuclear button', or ignore the possibility that he is just a front for an unnamed malevolent man pulling the strings from the basement of the White House?
America should remember that she was the first country to kill civilians, an estimated 214,000 plus Japanese, by dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
It would seem rather disingenuous if America were to be outraged if Putin felt justified in doing the same.
There will be no winners in this war. Shame on everyone who has a finger in this bloody pie.

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Luz Maria Rodriguez

Tershia • Oct 8, 2022 at 21:35

"America should remember that she was the first country to kill civilians, an estimated 214,000 plus Japanese, by dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945."

It is true that America did win the competition for the A-bomb. What would likely have happened had an enemy state won that competition? It is unlikely that enemy would have hesitated one second to use it had they won that competition.

Otoh, it is also true that had the A-bomb NOT been used, Japan would have put up a costly door to door defense before submitting. Expert analysis indicate that such a door to door fight would have cost some 300,000 deaths. Ergo, the A-bomb actually allowed some 86,000 to live another day.

However, it is very notable that our politicians today are far below the cognition skills and morals and ethics of those of WW2. In particular, America is unfortunately being run by a person with no morals or ethics. Witness, how Joe Biden attacked Judge Bork back in the 1980s as well as Justice Thomas. Shinguentes, Senator Shumer threatened two conservative justices while standing on the steps of the Supreme Court. This regime is clearly hell-bent on maintaining their illegal labs and money laundering schemes in Ukraine.

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1Cedar

Tershia • Oct 10, 2022 at 16:13

I don't think the Ukrainians have the least need to feel ashamed for resisting the brutal onslaughts of Russian imperialism. On the contrary.

The USA has its own agenda, but the situation for Ukraine is simple: fight, or have their land & resources confiscated, their infrastructure & cultural heritage destroyed, & their people systematically slaughtered, until the few remaining are willing to agree there's no such thing as Ukraine.

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VictorMc • Oct 1, 2022 at 06:05

Yet another (daily) story about the Biden (democrat) criminals. We are headed for the next (well-overdue) world war as a way out of the fuel crisis. This will NOT be about invading armies crossing onto beaches.

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Luz Maria Rodriguez

VictorMc • Oct 10, 2022 at 16:39

Is very interesting, sir. Once the first nuke hits the dirt, there is a high probability it will quickly escalate, according to many military experts. Once that escalation reaches a certain point (very quickly), there is further probability it will all end with a couple hours. Those who survive probably will be looking in the face of a second Dark Age for humankind.

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Harvey Radnor • Oct 1, 2022 at 05:51

The Biden cartel and their handlers are hellbent on ending the free world.

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Jeff Page • Oct 1, 2022 at 05:40

I think the time is right for Biden to be carted off to the funny farm. How many more crazy decisions will be made before someone in authority says enough is enough? What's in it for Biden? Is money involved? will he and his family members benefit financially? Is there no end to this crazy President's stupidity?

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Selma Soss

Jeff Page • Oct 1, 2022 at 13:33

Yes, it is time for Biden to go his way. But how about the team behind him that make his decisions? They all need to go. The sooner the better. We need to get President Trump and the team he worked with back in office. If not, some dedicated Republicans.

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