{"id":23360,"date":"2015-12-08T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23360"},"modified":"2015-12-08T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:57:36","slug":"iran-obamas-other-legacy-achievement-continues-to-unravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23360\/iran-obamas-other-legacy-achievement-continues-to-unravel\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran:  Obama&#8217;s Other Legacy &#8220;Achievement&#8221; Continues to Unravel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23347\/healthcare-spending-sees-biggest-jump-since-2007\/\" target=\"_blank\">highlighted<\/a> the latest manifestation of ObamaCare&#8217;s ongoing failure, and noted how the emerging question is whether that law or Obama&#8217;s similarly disastrous Iran nuclear deal will prove the worse of his two signature &#8220;achievements&#8221; as president. \u00a0Well, don&#8217;t look now, but the Iran deal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-missiles-idUSKBN0TQ2O220151208?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_daily202#blB8bPKiBl4wZI1w.97\" target=\"_blank\">just staked its latest claim<\/a> to that title:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran tested a new medium-range ballistic missile last month in a breach of two U.N. Security Council resolutions, two U.S. officials said on Monday&#8230; \u00a0All ballistic missile tests by Iran are banned under a 2010 Security Council resolution that remains valid until a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers is implemented. \u00a0Under that deal, reached on July 14, most sanctions on Iran will be lifted in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. \u00a0According to a July 20 resolution endorsing that deal, Iran is still &#8216;called upon&#8217; to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons for up to eight years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But not to worry &#8211; we can rely upon the U.N. to discipline Iran and steer it back into better behavior as a member of the &#8220;international community,&#8221; right? \u00a0Oh, wait:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In October, the United States, Britain, France and Germany called for the Security Council&#8217;s Iran sanctions committee to take action over a missile test by Tehran that month that they said violated U.N. sanctions. \u00a0So far, no action has been taken by the committee.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your move, ObamaCare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we highlighted the latest manifestation of ObamaCare&#8217;s ongoing failure, and noted how the emerging question is whether that law or Obama&#8217;s similarly disastrous Iran nuclear deal will prove the worse of his two signature &#8220;achievements&#8221; as president. \u00a0Well, don&#8217;t look now, but the Iran deal just staked its latest claim to that title: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,510,24],"class_list":["post-23360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-iran","tag-nuclear","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23361,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23360\/revisions\/23361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}