OCTOBER SURPRISE?
Look for announcement of temporary halt to uranium enrichment
Iran could announce a temporary halt to uranium enrichment before next month’s U.S. election in a move to save Barack Obama’s presidency, a source affiliated with high Iranian officials said today.
The source, who remains anonymous for security reasons, said a three-person delegation of the Obama administration led by a woman engaged in secret negotiations yesterday with a representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The delegation urged the Iranian leader to announce a halt to enrichment, even if temporary, before the Nov. 6 election, promising removal of some sanctions.
The source said the delegation warned that a Mitt Romney presidency would change the U.S. relationship with Iran regarding its nuclear program.
The U.S. representatives reminded the Iranians that President Obama has stood in front of Israel, preventing the Jewish state from attacking Iran over its illicit nuclear arms policy.
Yesterday’s meeting, which took place in Doha, Qatar, was coordinated by the Qatar monarchy, whose members attended at the request of the Obama administration.
Ali Akbar Velayati, the former Iranian foreign minister and current close adviser to the supreme leader on international affairs, secretly traveled to Qatar for the meeting. Velayati is wanted by Argentina for the Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 people.
One Obama representative, the woman, who had met Velayati before, urged Velayati to announce a halt, even if it is only for a week or two, to uranium enrichment prior to the U.S. election, according to the source. The U.S. representatives promised the Obama administration quickly would remove some sanctions on the Iranian central bank and oil industry, with further collaboration after the election, the source said.
Yesterday’s secret meeting took place even as hundreds of merchants in Tehran marched on parliament to protest the collapsing Iranian currency and the Islamic regime’s financial support for the besieged Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
Riot police violently clamped down on black-market money changers while merchants in the sprawling bazaar closed their shops during the protest. With inflation soaring, Iranian merchants can’t sell their goods, for fear they won’t be able to restock their shelves.
Yesterday’s negotiation was an extension of secret negotiations begun in early January when, according to Iranian officials and a report by Fars News Agency, Obama requested collaboration with the Islamic regime through three different channels. The channels were a letter to the supreme leader, a message to the Iranian U.N. delegate and a direct message through Swiss Ambassador Livia Leu Agosti in Tehran in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Ministry officials, who quoted a message from Obama.
The Obama message said: “I didn’t want to impose sanctions on your central bank, but I had no options but to approve it since a Congress majority had approved the decision.”
A unanimous U.S. Senate vote had approved strong sanctions against the Iranian central bank and oil industry, but with a veto threat by the president, the effective date of the implementation of the sanctions was delayed to July 1.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday in Kazakhstan that the sanctions can be lifted immediately if the regime meets its nuclear obligations. She blamed its leaders for the financial crisis and spreading protests and said U.S. policy only seeks to convince the regime to seriously negotiate over its uranium enrichment program.
The Islamic leaders face increasing challenges with the Iranian people, a majority of whom resent the regime and are once again gathering energy to confront it with the hope of achieving regime change and freedom and democracy.
Fox News has reported that Iranian authorities dispatched riot police to key locations in Tehran just within the last 24 hours because of the turmoil over the plunging value of the nation’s currency. Many shop owners were closed the day before, and trash bins were burned as citizens and security forces clashed. More than a dozen were “detained.”
In 2009, when Iranians came out by the millions demanding change and urging Obama to support them, the administration instead negotiated with the regime in the hope of reaching a solution over Iran’s nuclear program. Though the Islamic leaders promised to collaborate with the president once the masses were fully suppressed, the Iranian leaders announced that not only was the offer no longer acceptable but they had further progressed with their nuclear program by reaching a milestone of enriching uranium to the 20-percent level.
The Aug. 30 IAEA report showed Iran has doubled the number of centrifuges at its Fordow facility deep within a mountain to more than 2,000, and work continues unabated at the 20-percent enrichment level. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 centrifuges at the Natanz facility are enriching to the 3.5-percent level, with enough low-enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs should Iran decide to enrich further.
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and author of the award-winning book “A Time to Betray” (Simon & Schuster, 2010). He serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and the advisory board of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI).
@ Joseph Marmor:
or Samantha Power?
Could it have Valerie Jarrett??
@ David Chase:
They are tolerating it because many of them are corrupt and lawless–and the RINO’s among them are not displeased with much of what Obama has done!
@ ebyjeeby:
One would at least hope what is needed will be done–its for certain Obama will not do what is needed!
At this point–nothing will save Obama and his illegal place in the White House!
Could the woman be Clinton right hand Muslim lady or her next best friend? Must be an Islamist Shia mole of some kind!
I actually believe this is true and if so I don’t know how the American people and Congress can tolerate it. Apparently, somebody or some people know “something” and that needs to be further publicized. Send this article to every Congressman and Senator. First “secret” deals with Russia (which we know are true) and “maybe” but still possible secret negotiations with Iran both against the interests of the United States. How do the American people put up with this- the POTUS as enemy of the United States. And people were afraid to vote for Sarah Palin? I actually knew people, Jews, who were rightly prepared to vote against Obama because of his anti-Jewish credentials and actually changed their vote because McCain picked Sarah Palin for VP. They were actually more afraid of an Evangelical Christian that loves Israel than a closet Muslim that supports Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakan and the entire Arab world that hates it.
Romney may not want “another war” but his support for Israel is unquestioned. I don’t know what Romney’s stance is regarding Israel/US attacking Iran, but I would think (or I expect) he would at least support an attack by Israel with mid-air refueling and whatever else is needed.
@ Laura:
Do you honestly think, given America’s reluctance to get dragged into another war, that Romney , as president will attack. If you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you at a good price.
Obama knows Iran won’t stop. This is only about the scoundrel’s reelection and not a genuine effort to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. Whatever agreement there is will merely be window dressing, a fake agreement for a temporary halt of uranium enrichment so Obama can fool the American electorate into giving him a second term. I fear Americans may be duped.
Yeah, sure. Iran will decrease it’s enrichment program, ’cause Obama says so! The only question is “Who’s the bigger liar? Obama or the Iranians?” Both are pathological liars who cannot be trusted.