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Report: UK Officials Hid Iran-Sponsored London Bomb Plot From the Public Amid Nuclear Deal Debate
by Guy Benson, Townhall:
One of the chief criticisms of the Iran nuclear deal — aside from its permissiveness on substance, effectively guaranteeing the regime’s ability to become a threshold nuclear state when various restrictions sunset — was that its supporters in Western governments prioritized their own desperation for an agreement above virtually all other considerations. One thinks of the ‘secret side deals‘ that granted Tehran even more concessions, the impotence of officials who admitted Iran’s violation of the accord’s “spirit” while doing nothing, and the pallets of cash paid directly to the regime’s leadership in exchange for hostages — and the accompanying lies.
President Obama signed of on the JCPOA without the consent of Congress, a strong bipartisan majority of which was opposed to his administration’s plan. By ignoring the will of the legislative branch, the temporary nature of Obama’s action allowed his successor to withdraw the United States from the fatally flawed deal. All of the other major players have stayed within the framework. Except, that is, for Iran, which announced in May its intention to ignore certain provisions it no longer wants to follow unless new demands are met (in addition to pre-existing and fundamentalviolations):
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared Wednesday that the country would partially stop complying with a landmark nuclear deal it signed in 2015 with six other nations…On Wednesday, Rouhani said in a nationally televised speech that he informed the other signatories of the deal — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia — that they had 60 days to decide to either pull out of the deal or trade for oil with Iran in violation of U.S.-imposed sanctions, the New York Times reported…He said the country would stockpile low enriched uranium and heavy water and that it would restart its Arak nuclear reactor, which it shuttered and partially dismantled under the agreement, if Iran is not compensated for losses it will incur following Trump’s April 25 cancellation of temporary waivers permitting countries including Iraq, Turkey, India, Japan and China to purchase Iranian oil without breaking U.S. sanctions…”Otherwise, the Islamic Republic of Iran will stop compliance with its other undertakings in consequent phases,” the Supreme National Security Council said.
Iran’s bellicosity and maneuvering also nearly brought the US to the brink of confrontation this spring, causing American officials to issue serious warnings, deploy military resources, and evacuate diplomatic personnel from Iraq. None of Iran’s ongoing treachery, including its shameless and ongoing sponsorship of terrorism, has dissuaded The West (minus the Trump administration) from sticking to the nuclear agreement. New revelations from the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper appear to further illustrate the lengths to which some governments have been willing to go in order to shield the Iranians from very bad press, in the name of politically protecting the JCPOA:
*EXCLUSIVE*
Iranian-linked terrorists were caught stashing three tonnes of bomb-making materials in London in 2015.
It was just months after the Iran nuclear deal was secured. But MPs + the public have never been told.
Summary thread below…https://t.co/BYJEm2QPIv
— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) 9 June 2019
Terrorists linked to Iran were caught stockpiling tonnes of explosive materials on the outskirts of London in a secret British bomb factory, The Telegraph can reveal. Radicals linked to Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant group, stashed thousands of disposable ice packs containing ammonium nitrate – a common ingredient in homemade bombs. The plot was uncovered by MI5 and the Metropolitan Police in the autumn of 2015, just months after the UK signed up to the Iran nuclear deal. Three metric tonnes of ammonium nitrate was discovered – more than was used in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and damaged hundreds of buildings.
The story goes on to note that the disrupted bomb-making plot by one of Iran’s top proxies was “for years kept hidden from the public,” including most of Parliament. This, in turn, “raises questions about whether senior UK government figures chose not to reveal the plot in part because they were invested in keeping the Iran nuclear deal afloat.” A disturbing but inevitable question. Hezbollah has long been a top terror client of the Iranian regime, famously “let off the hook” by an Obama administration hellbent on cajoling Tehran into the nuclear accord at nearly any cost. Here’s a Politico flashback:
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