Do you guys know why Japanese Premier went to Iran? Read why he made the trip to a nation with runaway inflation, primarily caused by sanctions. Do you know Japan was a major buyer of Iranian sweet?

Now put yourself in the position of Iran. They were given tons of stuff by Obama and other world leaders in an attempt to keep them from being the #1 sponsor of terrorism. By the way, that approach did not work.

The western world paid for their war efforts-now gone. They were conditioned for years- 1979- to start with, to threaten to get their way.

So Aba (Japan) shows up to attempt to get them to talk to USA (Iran sees them as a puppet to USA) and they give verbal message of no way we will talk to USA. Iran says, we will use our secret weapons to destroy the USA. And then, that night, they throw mines at Japan's tankers. Just what a child does when someone tries to stop them from doing some bad things.

Then they see one mine stuck to tanker, but did not blow up and they send a fast boat from their navy to detach it in an effort to not leave real evidence of their war efforts/intimidation tactic. Exactly the same behavior they have used to get their way since 1979.

Thus, USA goes back to work to get our allies to stop buying crude and support sanctions 100%. That is why our Energy Secretary is over seas developing the supply chains for our NG and other energy products which will make it easy for all to comply.

Thus, through sanction strength and 100% compliance to sanctions, Iran has 2 choices. Talk or suffer. No more money to wage their war efforts. Proof of that is they have pulled out of all areas except maybe one in their terrorists efforts.

Trump is the first president in modern history to utilize M.E.R.P.S tactics that are fully implemented. That is Military, Economics, Religious freedoms, Political and Social pressures to get them to comply with some basic world behaviors of being a good neighbor.

When that happens the Iranian leaders and their people will suffer. That generally leads to revolt of the suffering people if gov't does not change. That is called peace through strength with no war. However, that does not mean that war is off the table.

I'm curious about some of the quotes in that report. Particularly the following by Senator Grassley: "It is clear to me that the president committed serious crimes when he coached his secretary, Betty Currie, and when he misled his aides Sidney Blumenthal and John Podesta … These actions weren’t just outrageous and morally wrong. They were also illegal. They were a direct assault on the integrity of the judicial process."

Sidney Blumenthal served as assistant and senior advisor to Bill Clinton from August 1997 until January 2001. Following the inauguration of GW, Blumenthal entered the private sector and wrote books about his service in Bubba's admin. In 2007, Blumenthal joined the Hillary Clinton p**********l campaign as a senior advisor. While on a trip to advise Clinton on her p**********l campaign, Blumenthal was arrested for driving while intoxicated in Nashua, New Hampshire, on January 7, 2008. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor DWI charge.

After her January 2009 appointment as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton wanted to hire Blumenthal. However, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, blocked his se******n due to lingering anger among President Barack Obama's aides over Blumenthal's role in promoting negative stories about Obama during the Democratic primary. Blumenthal was a Clinton lackey through and through.

American political analysts characterized Blumenthal as "the most pro-Clinton writer on the planet." In Salon.com, Dwight Garner wrote that Blumenthal's pieces as Washington correspondent of The New Yorker "were so unabashedly pro-Clinton that they quickly became the butt of countless jokes."

John Podesta is an American political consultant who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from October 20, 1998 until January 20, 2001 and as Counselor to President Barack Obama from January 1, 2014 until February 13, 2015. Before that he served as the White House Staff Secretary and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for the Clinton Administration between January 20, 1993 until October 20, 1998. John Podesta is the central figure in the leak of Hillary Clinton's emails.

In March 2016, the personal Gmail account of John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff and chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 U.S. p**********l campaign, was c*********d in a data breach, and some of his emails, many of which were work-related, were stolen. Cybersecurity researchers as well as the United States government attributed responsibility for the breach, which was accomplished via a spear-phishing attack, to the hacking group Fancy Bear, allegedly affiliated with Russian intelligence services.

Blumenthal and Podesta were rivals, they had their own feud trying to curry favor with Bill Clinton during his presidency and Hillary during her incredibly corrupt and dismal stint as SecState.

Neither of these two democrat hacks had a damn thing to do with Trump, his campaign or his presidency.

Ya find a glaring error like this in the pages of a foreign l*****t news service, it throws suspicion on the entire piece.