ANOTHER GIFT FROM OUR NEW IRANIAN FRIENDS – AT 10:14 A.M. ET:   Usually, when a country enters into an international agreement with an adversary, it tries to moderate its language to put on the appearance of "good faith."  Not Iran.  It doesn't even worry about appearances, especially when dealing with a weak American president.  From Britain's Sky News: 

Iran has released five senior al Qaeda operatives from detention and will soon allow them to leave the country, prompting fears they will join other terrorists in Syria planning attacks on the West.

According to intelligence sources, three of the five are members of al Qaeda's ruling committee, the Shura Council.

They were released in exchange for an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen earlier this year.

The move comes not long after the American-led coalition in Syria bombed and killed several members of an organisation known as the Khorasan Group - an al Qaeda network based in Syria but focusing on planning attacks in the West using operatives with foreign passports.

Among those killed was Mohsin al Fadhli, who had also been based in Iran and was released by Tehran.

Intelligence sources said that while the Shi'a theocracy of Iran and the Sunni extremist group al Qaeda were theoretical enemies, there has been an "understanding" that the two would avoid attacks on one another and focus on battling the "shared threat" of the West.

Among those released in exchange for the Iranian diplomat was Abu al Kheir al Masri - the former head of al Qaeda's "external relations" committee, who was once seen as a possible replacement for Osama bin Laden at the top of the organisation.

Alongside him was Saif al Adel - considered Number Three in the al Qaeda hierarchy, according to an intelligence report seen by Sky News.

COMMENT:  And yet the nuclear deal goes through without any protest to Iran about its bandit behavior.   And the "Death to America" chants continue every day.  I've never seen a deal quite like this.

September 18,  2015