{"id":1020,"date":"2017-04-25T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2020-02-07T19:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T19:02:26","slug":"congressman-obamas-iran-deal-prisoner-swap-was-brutally-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Congressman: Obama\u2019s Iran deal prisoner swap was \u2018brutally incompetent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New York Post &#8211; By Maris \u2013\u00a0<strong>APRIL 25, 2017 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>WASHINGTON \u2014 Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of the two Jewish Republicans in the House, is blasting the Obama administration prisoner swap with Iran as \u201cbrutally incompetent\u201d following new disclosures about the troubling backgrounds of the Iranians who were set free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Once again we are reminded of how brutally incompetent President Obama\u2019s foreign policy was, especially as it related to Iran,\u201d Zeldin told The Post in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI can\u2019t say that I am surprised in the least by these most recent findings of secrecy, lacking transparency, and utter incompetency. The Obama administration sought to appease the Iranians at any and all cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zeldin (R-NY) was the only Republican Jewish member of Congress during the Iran deal. He\u2019s no longer alone, with the addition this year of Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Politico reported Monday that in order to free US prisoners, including a US Marine and a Washington Post reporter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">, Obama released Iranians who posed a threat to national security and dropped charges against 14 fugitives, including those tied to weapons smuggling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zeldin has called for more pushback against all of Iran\u2019s threatening activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe must re-establish our leverage with sanctions and other tools that would force the Iranians to the table in the first place,\u201d Zeldin said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Trump administration is undertaking a review of its Iran policies. President Trump, who had pledged during the campaign to rip up the Iran nuclear deal, accused Tehran last week of not living up to the \u201cspirit\u201d of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post &#8211; By Maris \u2013\u00a0APRIL 25, 2017 &#8211;\u00a0WASHINGTON \u2014 Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of the two Jewish Republicans in the House, is blasting the Obama administration prisoner swap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-jason-rezaian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}