Obama and the Art of the Iran Deal Can one successfully negotiate without respect from the other sid

Sharpie · May 11, 2018

Another too long title:
Obama and the Art of the Iran Deal
Can one successfully negotiate without respect from the other side?

Mr. Obama added that resolving the issue of Iran’s rising nuclear capabilities could “serve as a major step forward in a new relationship between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran -- one based on mutual interests and mutual respect.”

The mullahs certainly seem to have respected the value of intellectual property. Today Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman called the hacking that began around the time of Mr. Obama’s historic opening “one of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.” The Journal notes:

Using stolen account credentials, the Iranians allegedly targeted more than 100,000 email accounts of professors around the world and successfully compromised approximately 8,000 of them. Prosecutors say the hackers stole data and intellectual property across all fields of research, including science, technology, engineering and medical fields.
The hacking appears to have continued through July of 2015, when Secretary of State John Kerry hailed an allegedly successful conclusion to the negotiations and an Iranian agreement not to develop nuclear weapons. Said Mr. Kerry:

And I finally want to express my deep respect for the serious and constructive approach that Iran’s representatives brought to our deliberations. The president of Iran, President Rouhani, had to make a difficult decision. We all know the tensions that exist. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, a tough, capable negotiator, and patriot, a man who fought every inch of the way for the things he believed, and sometimes these were heated and passionate exchanges. But he and his team, while tough, always professional, always dedicated to finding solutions to difficult problems. And we were, both of us, able to approach these negotiations with mutual respect, even when there were times of a heated discussion, I think he would agree with me at the end of every meeting we left with a smile and with a conviction that we were going to come back and continue the process.

It’s not entirely clear why Mr. Zarif was smiling, but according to the indictments announced today, the Iranian government continued the process of breaking into U.S. computer networks to steal American information through the end of the Obama administration and into the Trump era.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-and-the-art-of-the-iran-deal-1521833287
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Just shows how friggin' stupid Kerry and Obama are.

Come to think of it - has anyone counted up the vast number of serious data breeches occurred on Obama's watch?
The entire deep background checks of the federal employees when the Office of Personnel Management was hacked. The above mentioned hack by Iranians while Obama and Kerry were bowing. The DNC. And so many more too numerous to count.

Ericb760 · May 11, 2018

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