Yet another secret side deal in Obama’s awful Iran pact

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif poses with Secretary of State John Kerry

Yet another troubling secret side deal tied to President Obama’s disastrous Iran nuclear pact has now come to light. At this point, Obama has dropped more shoes than Imelda Marcos.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the ransom for the US hostages Iran released in January went beyond that $1.7 billion cash payment: Washington also agreed to immediately lift UN sanctions on two major Tehran banks.

What makes this especially worrisome is that the banks — Bank Sepah and Bank Sepah International — were under sanction for financing Iran’s ballistic-missile program. And those penalties were to remain in force until 2023.

Team Obama said Washington agreed to secretly lift the sanctions as a gesture of good faith because Iran had been complying with the nuclear deal.

But, as we’ve since learned, Iran is only in compliance because of a series of secret technical US concessions — without which Tehran would never have met the deadline for sanctions relief.

Not to mention that its continuing ballistic-missile program itself violates the spirit of the agreement.

It’s also come out that Obama agreed to lift sanctions on Air Iran imposed for ferrying weapons and supplies for the Revolutionary Guard.

And that yet another side deal relaxes key restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear program in a decade, rather than the original 15 years.

Not to mention that Iran was given the right to “self-inspect” its Parchin military base, where nuclear detonators were built.

None of these were disclosed by the White House; reporters had to dig them up. And the administration’s response to each has been to deny or rationalize it away.

Sen. John McCain is right when he says the nuke deal grows more dangerous each day and that the president is “treating the American people like fools” — even as he seems to be getting played by Tehran.