Former US President Jimmy Carter praises Iran agreement

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

TLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is backing a historic deal aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear program, calling it “a major step in the right direction.”

Carter told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he’s confident the agreement allows any violations by Iran to be detected. Carter says the White House briefed him on the deal Tuesday. The 90-year-old Carter calls the deal better for Iran, the U.S., and the world, and says he’s thankful for it.

The Iranian hostage crisis dominated Carter’s 1980 campaign for a second term. He was defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan.

In a new book released this month, Carter writes that the crisis made him vulnerable to attacks labeling him ineffective. He calls his final year in office “the most stressful and unpleasant” of his life.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/07/15/former_us_president_jimmy_carter_praises_iran_agreement/

[kelliekat44]

1. He was right about Panama Canal. He's right about this. I'll go with the historical record. nt

[onehandle]

2. My Governor and then my President.

Thank you, sir.

[cosmicone]

3. Jimmy Carter -- probably the only decent human being

to occupy the white house.

[lark]

4. Jimmy Carter

best man to be president, at least during my 63 years here.

[timdog44]

9. And during

my almost 67 years.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thanks for your thread. n/t

[Aristus]

6. Another reason for repubs to hate the agreement. They despise President Carter.

They ignore the fact that he's one of the most gifted and effective statesmen in American history, and simply recount, endlessly, his "single failed term". Even that right there ignores the large number of good things he accomplished in a mere four years.

President Carter rocks!

[timdog44]

10. and another reason

I hate rupubs, as if I needed any more. I won't swear in a thread about Jimmy Carter.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, DonViejo.

[Raine1967]

8. K&R!

[still_one]

11. A couple of weeks ago Jimmy Carter Calls Obama's Foreign Policy Success 'Minimal'

"Former President Jimmy Carter said recently that he finds President Barack Obama's success on the world stage to be "minimal."

“I think he’s done some good things domestically like the health program and so forth, but on the world stage, just to be as objective about it as I can, I can’t think of many nations in the world where we have a better relationship now than we did when he took over,” he said in a conversation with Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson last week."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/jimmy-carter-obama-foreign-policy_n_7706210.html

I am glad that President Carter finally pulled his head out to look at the sky

From removing Syria's chemical weapons, to reestablishing contacts with Cuba,

The Iran deal is more than any other President has done in the last few decades.

So he is now slightly back tracking and at least recognizing this achievement, but his characterization of President Obama's foreign policy as being "minimal", was simple wrong.

[Cha]

13. "So he is now slightly back tracking and at least recognizing this achievement, but his

characterization of President Obama's foreign policy as being "minimal", was simple wrong."

It's very wrong.. so what the heck was he thinking?

mahalo for your post, still_one

[still_one]

14. Hi Cha. I agree. I don't know what he was thinking

[Cha]

12. Good.. glad to have President Carter on board with SOS Kerry and President Obama!

[Kath1]

15. Thank you, Jimmy Carter.

Another President who believed in crazy things like peace and equality!

[brer cat]

16. No one who could win a Nobel Peace Prize

will ever be tolerated by republicans. It is the total opposite of what they stand for.

I am glad President Carter is agreement with the Iran agreement.