U.S. Waves Sanctions - Enables Iran, Russia To Resume Nuclear Work

EXPOSED: ‘Obsessed’ Biden quietly waives sanctions, enables Iran, Russia to resume nuclear work, make billions in profit

Atara Beck,

Last Friday, “moments before the end of the workday, the Biden administration notified Congress that nonproliferation sanctions on the terrorist regime of Iran were being waived to allow Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned energy company, to profit without sanctions,” the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) noted in a press release this week.

Washington Free Beacon was the only news site to report the event, apparently based on the deliberate timing of the notification.

“The Biden administration renewed a series of sanctions waivers that permit Iran and Russia to cooperate on nuclear work at Iranian enrichment sites, according to a non-public notification sent to Congress and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon,” the report said.

Furthermore, “Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized the waivers on Jan. 31, but Congress was not notified of the decision until late on Feb. 3, after the Free Beacon began making inquiries about the exemptions. Senior congressional sources said the Biden administration is trying to sweep the sanctions waivers under the rug amid renewed concerns about Iran and Russia’s military alliance.”

ZOA concurred, stating that “the move went unnoticed at first by major media, which was clearly the intent of the administration.”

“The waivers—a vestige of the 2015 nuclear deal that the Biden administration is trying to salvage—provide billions in profit for Russian-state controlled firms, such as the Rosatom nuclear company, for work at Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant, a contested military site suspected of housing Tehran’s nuclear weapons program.

“By permitting cooperation, critics charge that the Biden administration is allowing Tehran to develop its nuclear program while enriching Russia through business with state-controlled organizations,” the Beacon explains.

“These waivers send a message to both Tehran and Moscow that Washington still wants to move forward with a Russia-enabled Iran nuclear deal where [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the mullahs both make billions,” said Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank and former White House National Security Council director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction,” according to the Beacon. “It’s a real stab in the back to Ukraine and a win for Rosatom.”

“I am deeply troubled by the administration’s decision to waive sanctions on nonproliferation activities involving Iran, despite Iran’s continued noncompliance with its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and the potential benefit to Russia’s state-owned energy giant, Rosatom.

“The Biden administration is pathologically obsessed with reentering a nuclear deal with Iran,” he said. “They’re so obsessed they’re implementing parts of the last catastrophic deal, even without a new agreement. They’re so obsessed that they’re willing to boost Russia and the Russian-Iranian alliance that is attacking the Ukrainian military and civilians.”

‘Israel may be forced to take military action’

“President Biden continues to reward the terrorist enemy of America, Iran, for monstrous behavior and irrationally undo the sanctions regime that was only inconveniencing Iran in any case. Their enrichment activities toward nukes have been moving forward throughout the tenure of President Biden, and Russian assistance will only shorten the critical timeline,” ZOA President Mort Klein said in a statement.

“Russian state-owned companies will make billions and the United States and Israel will be far less safe. Israel may be forced to take military action to stop Iran’s program, and the Biden administration is literally doing nothing to deter these maniacal terrorists running Iran.

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