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Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by OLAADEGBU(m): 4:12pm On Jul 04, 2018
Iranian Official Drops Bombshell: Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship to 2500 Iranians as Part of Nuke Deal
By Nick Arama - July 2, 2018

A senior Iranian cleric and member of parliament has just dropped a bombshell.

He is claiming that the Obama administration, as part of negotiating during the Iran Deal, granted U.S. citizenship to 2500 Iranians including family members of government officials.

From Fox News:

Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour, who is chairman of Iran's parliamentary nuclear committee and a member of its national security and foreign affairs committee, made the allegations during an interview with the country's Etemad newspaper, cited by the country's Fars News agency.

He claimed it was done as a favour to senior Iranian officials linked to President Hassan Rouhani, and he alleged the move sparked a competition among Iranian officials over whose children would benefit from the scheme.

Several children of current and former Iranian officials live in the United States, including Ali Fereydoun, whose father is brother and special aide of President Hassan Rouhan, and Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, whose father Ali Larijani is speaker of parliament.

While Zolnour did not mention any names, he obviously was trying to make a political point.

"When Obama, during the negotiations about the JCPOA, decided to do a favour to these men, he granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians and some officials started a competition over whose children could be part of these 2,500 Iranians," he claimed.

"If today these Iranians get deported from America, it will become clear who is complicit and sells the national interest like he is selling candies to America."

The conservative Zolnour, who is in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's inner circle, added: "It should be stated exactly which children of which authorities live in the United States and have received citizenship or residency."

He said while some were studying in the U.S. others were working in the U.S. "against our national interests."

It's not clear who he's talking about and whether he's confusing a green card with citizenship. And one has to take his political objective into account.

But it obviously raises a concerning question.

There have been so many things hidden from the public about the Iran Deal if this was one more thing given up in bribe, it wouldn't be hard to believe.

And it shouldn't be hard to track this down with a little government and Congressional investigation.

The problem, of course, too many Obama holdovers in places like the State Department so you can't get a straight answer.

Asked about the cleric's claim, a State Department spokesperson said: "We're not going to comment on every statement by an Iranian official."

Fox News analyst and former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf was dubious of the Iranian official's allegation. "This sounds like totally made up BS," she said.

The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment. A representative for Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson also could not be reached for comment.

This would certainly anger Republicans, especially in the wake of the pallets of cash, sanctions relief and giving access to the U.S. financial system that has already been revealed about the deal.

And in Iran, they could fuel resentment toward Tehran's elite.

"Many ordinary Iranians are surprised and feel betrayed that children of the regime officials live and work in the U.S.," Saeed Ghasseminejad, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based research institute, told Fox News. "The regime officials chant death to America but send their children to the U.S., away from the hell they have created in Iran over the past four decades."

Ghasseminejad said some Iranians have called for their deportation from America: "Iranians don't understand why the U.S. government allows the offspring of the regime officials to live in the U.S., while the U.S. has introduced a travel ban for ordinary Iranian citizens and many Americans are imprisoned in Iran. That is why many Iranians on social media have been urging the U.S. government to deport the children of the regime officials."

The protests have hit the country hard as the economy has continued to crater. The Iran Deal was expected to help the country but the people in the street didn't feel the difference. And now pulling out of the Iran Deal has facilitated a drop in the value of the rial against the dollar. And as a result of pulling out of the deal, international firms and oil companies have dropped deals with Iran.

There's a lot of jockeying for power behind the scenes here.

But it could be interesting if it's the failure of the Iran Deal that actually deals the final blow to the Islamists and it brings the secularists back.

https://diamondandsilk.americandailynews.org/2018/07/02/iranian-official-drops-bombshell-obama-secretly-gave-citizenship-to-2500-iranians-as-part-of-nuke-deal/
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by MANNABBQGRILLS: 4:15pm On Jul 04, 2018
Secretly?
What is the definition of that?
Any shady deal or it was done in the right way?
Matters arising......
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by Gloriousgud: 4:25pm On Jul 04, 2018
Obama was a demon itself. that was how he secretly brought a sudanis to us, I mean PMB. OBAMA death upon YOU!!!!

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Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by Abbeybailey(m): 6:56pm On Jul 04, 2018
The sickos on Nairaland are parading fake news that had been debunked. Sicknesd going around on Nairaland hating a successful obama that no one in their entire lineage can achive 1/1000 of Obama's achievement in life.

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Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by Abbeybailey(m): 6:58pm On Jul 04, 2018
OLAADEGBU:
Iranian Official Drops Bombshell: Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship to 2500 Iranians as Part of Nuke Deal
By Nick Arama - July 2, 2018

A senior Iranian cleric and member of parliament has just dropped a bombshell.

He is claiming that the Obama administration, as part of negotiating during the Iran Deal, granted U.S. citizenship to 2500 Iranians including family members of government officials.

From Fox News:

Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour, who is chairman of Iran's parliamentary nuclear committee and a member of its national security and foreign affairs committee, made the allegations during an interview with the country's Etemad newspaper, cited by the country's Fars News agency.

He claimed it was done as a favour to senior Iranian officials linked to President Hassan Rouhani, and he alleged the move sparked a competition among Iranian officials over whose children would benefit from the scheme.

Several children of current and former Iranian officials live in the United States, including Ali Fereydoun, whose father is brother and special aide of President Hassan Rouhan, and Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, whose father Ali Larijani is speaker of parliament.

While Zolnour did not mention any names, he obviously was trying to make a political point.

"When Obama, during the negotiations about the JCPOA, decided to do a favour to these men, he granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians and some officials started a competition over whose children could be part of these 2,500 Iranians," he claimed.

"If today these Iranians get deported from America, it will become clear who is complicit and sells the national interest like he is selling candies to America."

The conservative Zolnour, who is in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's inner circle, added: "It should be stated exactly which children of which authorities live in the United States and have received citizenship or residency."

He said while some were studying in the U.S. others were working in the U.S. "against our national interests."

It's not clear who he's talking about and whether he's confusing a green card with citizenship. And one has to take his political objective into account.

But it obviously raises a concerning question.

There have been so many things hidden from the public about the Iran Deal if this was one more thing given up in bribe, it wouldn't be hard to believe.

And it shouldn't be hard to track this down with a little government and Congressional investigation.

The problem, of course, too many Obama holdovers in places like the State Department so you can't get a straight answer.

Asked about the cleric's claim, a State Department spokesperson said: "We're not going to comment on every statement by an Iranian official."

Fox News analyst and former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf was dubious of the Iranian official's allegation. "This sounds like totally made up BS," she said.

The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment. A representative for Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson also could not be reached for comment.

This would certainly anger Republicans, especially in the wake of the pallets of cash, sanctions relief and giving access to the U.S. financial system that has already been revealed about the deal.

And in Iran, they could fuel resentment toward Tehran's elite.

"Many ordinary Iranians are surprised and feel betrayed that children of the regime officials live and work in the U.S.," Saeed Ghasseminejad, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based research institute, told Fox News. "The regime officials chant death to America but send their children to the U.S., away from the hell they have created in Iran over the past four decades."

Ghasseminejad said some Iranians have called for their deportation from America: "Iranians don't understand why the U.S. government allows the offspring of the regime officials to live in the U.S., while the U.S. has introduced a travel ban for ordinary Iranian citizens and many Americans are imprisoned in Iran. That is why many Iranians on social media have been urging the U.S. government to deport the children of the regime officials."

The protests have hit the country hard as the economy has continued to crater. The Iran Deal was expected to help the country but the people in the street didn't feel the difference. And now pulling out of the Iran Deal has facilitated a drop in the value of the rial against the dollar. And as a result of pulling out of the deal, international firms and oil companies have dropped deals with Iran.

There's a lot of jockeying for power behind the scenes here.

But it could be interesting if it's the failure of the Iran Deal that actually deals the final blow to the Islamists and it brings the secularists back.

https://diamondandsilk.americandailynews.org/2018/07/02/iranian-official-drops-bombshell-obama-secretly-gave-citizenship-to-2500-iranians-as-part-of-nuke-deal/
Mr charlatan, you wouldn't know the truth if it slaps you on top of your skull. Fake News from fake source that we Americans know it has been debunked. Hope you get a cure for your mental illness.

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Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by OLAADEGBU(m): 9:35pm On Oct 10, 2019
Abbeybailey:


Mr charlatan, you wouldn't know the truth if it slaps you on top of your skull. Fake News from fake source that we Americans know it has been debunked. Hope you get a cure for your mental illness.

When and how was it debunked, on CNN? undecided

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Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by sunboy(m): 6:24pm On Oct 11, 2019
Who believe that shi.t
Your source is not even Fox News lol
Stop demonizing Obama! Stop! Let’s deal with Buhari!
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by Jimi24: 7:10pm On Oct 11, 2019
Gloriousgud:
Obama was a demon itself. that was how he secretly brought a sudanis to us, I mean PMB. OBAMA death upon YOU!!!!

This was a good move by Obama if TRUE. That's a visionary backed by the best intellectual minds in state dept and NSC.

Obama's people saw the middle east world intelligently. Sunni Islam / ISIS versus Shia Islam / Hezbollah. The US should always balance the two sides.
ISIS/Al Qaeda is terrible but so also is Iran that wants to wipe Israel of the map. Its better to manage them intelligently.

The report said there was a scramble for the immigration visas
That's world power stuff. Thats influence and national prestige of the US.

Compare that to the near illiterate you have in the White House now who cannot even manage himself from day to day not to talk of managing complex policy.
Its a SHAME to the UE
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by wirinet(m): 11:44pm On Oct 11, 2019
Abbeybailey:
Mr charlatan, you wouldn't know the truth if it slaps you on top of your skull. Fake News from fake source that we Americans know it has been debunked. Hope you get a cure for your mental illness.

Don't mind the poster, lies to in order to spread hatred, but claims he follow a religion of love.

I stopped reading at first when I saw this;
While Zolnour did not mention any names, he obviously was trying to make a political point

Then I saw that even fox dismissed the report;



Fox News analyst and former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf was dubious of the Iranian official's allegation. "This sounds like totally made up BS," she said.
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by Should: 8:06pm On Oct 12, 2019
Abbeybailey:
The sickos on Nairaland are parading fake news that had been debunked. Sicknesd going around on Nairaland hating a successful obama that no one in their entire lineage can achive 1/1000 of Obama's achievement in life.
no offence intended, are you gay or a satanist?

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Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by OLAADEGBU(m): 12:30pm On Jan 23, 2020

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Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by sunboy(m): 4:32pm On Jan 23, 2020
OP; look at the source you quoted, are you normal?

You mean Obama gave free citizenship and Trump won't mentioned it?

May GOD forgive you folks
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by OLAADEGBU(m): 5:35pm On Jan 23, 2020
sunboy:


OP; look at the source you quoted, are you normal?

You mean Obama gave free citizenship and Trump won't mentioned it?

May GOD forgive you folks

Obama did worse than that. See who he invited to the WH. shocked

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Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by panafrican(m): 3:59am On Jan 25, 2020
What is wrong with that ? Iranians are normal people like everyone of us, not only that

1. Bill Clinton allowed 20 000 people from former Yugoslavia to immigrate to the US in the late 1990s.

2. Under president George W. Bush hundreds of Ghanians got US citizenship, so did thousands of people from other countries.

3. Last but not least none of September 11, 2001 terrorists who brought down the World Trade Center
buildings was from Iran. They were mostly from
Saudi Arabia.
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:25am On Aug 11, 2020
post=69079920:


Secretly?
What is the definition of that?
Any shady deal or it was done in the right way?
Matters arising......

Clandestine arrangements. cool
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:26am On Aug 11, 2020
Gloriousgud:


Obama was a demon itself. that was how he secretly brought a sudanis to us, I mean PMB. OBAMA death upon YOU!!!!

You were certainly ahead of time to have noted this. cheesy
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:28am On Aug 11, 2020
Should:


no offence intended, are you gay or a satanist?

Good question. I wonder whether abbeybailey (a.k.a. Lucasbalo and now SonofLucifer sorry, SonofLincoln) answered this pertinent question. cheesy
Re: Iranian Official Drops Bombshell:Obama Secretly Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranian by OLAADEGBU(m): 12:57am On Oct 11, 2020
He is claiming that the Obama administration, as part of negotiating during the Iran Deal, granted U.S. citizenship to 2500 Iranians including family members of government officials.

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