Obama Thinks You FORGOT What Was in His Iran Deal | Nancy Mace

[00:00] He just unlocked the vault. Have you heard of Hezbollah? Have you heard of the Houthis? Have you heard of Hamas? All things that Iran has funded because Barack Obama lifted sanctions and allowed Iran access to cash money to fund those proxy wars. Nobody thought to mention that the Iran deal Barack Obama's bragging about had an expiration date. Obama was in Cleveland, Ohio this weekend bragging that he stopped Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and didn't have to file a single shot. That's what he said this weekend on the campaign trail rallying for Democrats a week before the election. But there's just one problem with what Barack Obama stated on the campaign trail. He was on a timer built to expire, of course, after about a decade. So once the timer did expire, Iran was free to go right back to it. Barack Obama bearing is about to get made.

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[01:28] And you do me one favor right now. Hit the subscribe button. Now, Barack Obama was on the campaign trail this weekend in Ohio and Michigan, which are looking more and more likely to be Democrat wins for at least the U.S. Senate in Michigan and the governor's race in Ohio. He was out there at rallies. And, you know, the idea that a Barack Obama is with the jihad adjacent Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan, the guy that denies he's aligned with Muslim Brotherhood. And then when you look at it, it's like, oh, yeah, he's a jihadist. And you look under the hood and you see, oh, he Abdul has been on the campaign trail with Muslim Brotherhood people, or at least he has preached the Koran with a Muslim student association group who was started by the Muslim Brotherhood. There are words of his own writing and letters, I guess, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. His family's from Egypt and his sister went off on some posts a number of years ago claiming that they had family members jailed for their affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. But, Barack Hussein Obama was out there taking a victory lap this weekend.

[02:33] The election hasn't even happened yet, but taking a victory lap on his 2015 Iran nuke deal, the JCPOA. He says Iran didn't get a nuke because of him. That's what he says. He says no missiles were fired and Iran wasn't nuclear capable because of him. The thing was, Iran didn't have nuclear weapons because I had put a deal in place.

[03:03] That is quite a bit of revisionist history. Obama omits that he didn't have a single ballistic missile as part of that deal. By the way, Barry, ballistic missiles are what carry the nukes, the nuclear warhead, and use them to strike the enemy. You use ballistic missiles to carry nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles weren't even a part of the JCPOA. You know, and so this guy is just revising history. Now, I'll agree with him. He didn't fire a single shot. He didn't fire a missile. He does complain that Iran has the veto power in the Strait of Hormuz. He's not wrong about any of that. We have run down our stock of missiles

[03:55] and Iran now has veto power over the JCPOA.

[04:03] He's right. He didn't fire a single missile. He just unlocked the vault. He just opened Iran's bank accounts, the tens of billions of dollars for Iran to use to fund proxy wars against the U.S. and against our allies in the Middle East. Have you heard of Hezbollah? Have you heard of the Houthis? Have you heard of Hamas? All things that Iran has funded because Barack Obama lifted sanctions and allowed Iran access to cash money to fund those proxy wars. Now, I'll be very clear. I don't like the Iran war. I don't want troops on the ground. I voted in favor of the war powers resolution when we the most recent vote that we had. It's time to bring our troops home. I don't want any forever wars in the Middle East. We saw 20 years of that after 9-11 didn't go so well. We're currently paying the Taliban to the tune of 50 to some. I've heard some cases 80 million dollars a week in Afghanistan. We can't even classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. It is all sorts of mess overseas right now, in large part because of George W.

[05:07] Bush. Thank you. The activity and the war that we had overseas made the situation in some ways significantly worse. But that's an episode for another day. So I've been very clear. I don't like the Iran war. Most of America doesn't like the Iran war. But that doesn't mean that Barack Obama's deal was some sort of a master stroke in history to keep Iran from being armed. That's just not true. When you read the actual terms of the agreement of the JCPOA, the whole thing was running on a timer. It had an expiration date and the caps weren't even that strong. And so nobody cheering him on on Saturday wants to talk about it. They don't either know the details or they don't want to know the details or this is just part of the Democrat playbook. They just want to revise history just to win power in Washington. Just to win power in politics, just to win power in D.C. at the Capitol over you, the people. So let's talk about what was actually in the deal that Barack Obama is taking credit for.

[06:11] Brought that cash to Iran. The plane opened up and these guys couldn't believe what they were looking at. He tried to buy his way out of it and they used it to try and create nuclear weapons and they bought missiles all over the place. And it was much more. It was 1.7 in green, but it was tens of billions. And just he thought he could buy his way out and they thought he was a sucker. They thought he was a sucker and they take advantage of suckers. And I'm not a sucker that I can tell you that deal had an expiration date. Why did it have an expiration date? Because the deal was on a very short fuse on a timer. Now the limit on how many centrifuges Iran could run. Those are the machines that enrich the uranium that you that Iran had only lasted. Those caps only lasted. Those restrictions. Only lasted about 10 years and it would have run out this January. The limits on how pure uranium could get and how much they could stockpile are gone by 2031.

[07:12] So after that, the deal did nothing to stop Iran from building back up. And we do know that Iran has been building up based on information. It's all open source and what Iran has been doing behind the back of America. And others that crafted this deal. But Barack Obama, all he did basically was kick the can down the road. Maybe he slowed down Iran's nuclear program slightly, but all he did was kick down, kick the can down the road for the next guy, including Joe Biden and Donald Trump. And then the next president in 2028, he wanted to leave them holding the bag, not take responsibility for the ballistic missiles or the enriching of uranium, that would go on after the expiration date. Don't take my word for it. Obama said it for himself back in 2015. For years, the U.N. told Iran to stop enriching its uranium. Obama's deal said, fine, keep your machines. Just don't go crazy for a while.

[08:12] Hit pause, slow it down slightly. You can enrich it at 4%. It actually was just under 4%. I think it was like 3.97% is what they were allowed under the JCPOA on uranium enrichment, that there were thousands of extra centrifuges. That got put in storage, basically. But they still existed. They were not destroyed. They still existed for Iran's use. Barack Obama sold this as giving the world a one-year head start on Iran in its race for a bomb. Obama told NPR in 2015 that by year 13 to 15, that head start would shrink to almost zero.

[08:52] In his own words, that's what he said. What is a more relevant? The fear would be that in year 13, 14, 15, they have advanced centrifuges that can enrich uranium fairly rapidly. And at that point, the breakout times would have shrunk almost down to zero. In his own words, he acknowledges his own deal, the JCPOA, that the expiration would allow Iran to expedite enriching its uranium because of their, quote, advanced centrifuges. His words, not mine. I'm not making this up. And then the other part of this is the money, the pallets of cash. As you've heard, tens of billions of dollars Iran got its hands on. Iran got its hands on that money because sanctions were lifted. Access to cash and bank accounts were permitted under Barack Obama. In January 2016, the big sanctions on oil and banking for Iran against Iran came off completely in the deal.

[09:56] And tens of billions of dollars. And frozen assets, frozen money got unlocked for Iran to get its hands on. And while that money was flowing into the hands of the Iranian terrorist regime, the IRGC, Iran kept funding terrorism around the globe, particularly in the Middle East with Hezbollah, with the Houthis, with Hamas. Hezbollah is, of course, the terror group in Lebanon. There are different factions of Hezbollah in different parts of the world, including in Iraq. suicide andceks, And he called us out a month later back from Russia peoples, but that was just going to be, that we've been fighting. And he allowed even more outrageously, Brock Obama is omitting the fact that he allowed Iran to continue it runs its development use in testing of ballistic missiles again which is probably one of the most importantata what kind of missile carries a nuclear warhead a ballistic missile and you can even make this up so he's not some sort or nuclear God. I am a california gov he's not some some sort of presidential person, caliber person that prevented Iran from getting a nuke.

[11:03] No, he allowed them to continue the development and build out and manufacturing of the very missile that would carry a nuke. He allowed that. I've waited waffles at Waffle House. No one ever handed me a tip before the meal. You get paid after you provide the service or after you meet a milestone like putting the food on the table or pouring the cup of coffee. You don't hand them the whole register up front, which is what Barack Obama gave to Iran on a silver platter. He said, here you go. Here are tens of billions of dollars. Here's the whole register. And Iran got their cash and they got their missiles. They weren't even a part of, the ballistic missiles weren't even a part of the deal. The missiles that could actually carry a nuke were left out of the deal. There were some weak, UN language asking Iran to please hold off. And even that expired in 2023. Hezbollah, Hamas and all of their terror proxies, none of that was in the deal either.

[12:04] And you look at what the Houthis are doing right now. It's paid for by Iranian cash. Look what Hezbollah is doing. Look at what Hamas is doing. Look what they did on October 7th. Look what they continue to do. Even Egypt, a Muslim country like Egypt, won't even take people from Gaza. They don't want Hamas and Egypt. It's Muslim Brotherhood doesn't want Hamas. Imagine that. That's pretty bad when you think about it. So we basically, Barack Obama basically handed them the money and hoped they'd act differently. Let's hope and pray that they don't develop ballistic missiles. And what did we see during the Iranian war? We saw the use, advanced use of Iranian missiles and drones, by the way. The deal didn't touch drones. Now let's talk about the inspection everybody's bragged about, including Barack Obama. We pulled it off. Without firing a missile, we got 97% of their enriched uranium out. They were able to maintain a modest civilian nuclear program for energy. My problem is how the deal was built.

[13:04] The UN's nuclear watchdog found Iran had a real bomb program up until 2003. Then they closed the file anyway so the deal could move forward. If the inspectors wanted to get into a suspicious site, get this, Iran could drag that out. They could wait. They could wait almost a month, at least 24 days and drag that out, giving Iran time to move things around. I give my kids less notice when I'm inspecting the room after a cleaning. We're talking about nuclear weapons here and you're giving a terrorist regime almost a month to prepare for those inspections. What do you think they're going to do?

[13:40] Clean up the mess they made inside of 24 days before you go and check the room, before you go check the nuclear site, before they go hide things so that you can't find them. And once the deal, fell apart, Iran went and pulled 27 of the inspectors' cameras off their nuclear sites. They did that. Trump pulled out in 2018 and Iran hung in there for about a year, then started blowing through the limits one by one. And later, they inked all the cameras at all the nuclear sites. So Saturday, like it was a reunion tour, Obama taking credit for this very bad nuclear deal with Iran, handing them bucket loads, of cash, allowing them to enrich their uranium at a slower pace, albeit not touching drones, not touching ballistic missiles that carry the nuclear warheads, if they were to ever achieve one. Nobody thought to mention that the Iran deal Barack Obama's bragging about had an expiration date. And the minute that it expired, all bets were off.

[14:41] So Obama didn't stop Iran's bomb. He just put it on a timer and left it for the next guy.

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