West wrote a blog post on March 31, 2016 entitled "Before He Leaves Office, I Predict Obama will Carry out this Particularly Treasonous Action…" In the post, West criticized the arms deal that the administration of President Barack Obama successfully negotiated with Iran in 2015, writing, " Barack Obama extended his hand and in it were billions of dollars for the number one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism ... We have Iranian hegemonic influence all across the Middle East, and its terrorist-listed forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Quds Force, operating freely, along with the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah—and Iranian-backed Shiite militias openly threatening U.S forces in Iraq ... Now the liberal progressive socialist leftists will claim Obama saved us from a war, a military confrontation. But that’s like the coward who gives up his lunch money to the bully saying he did it to avoid eating food he didn’t like ... Obama continues to attack political opposition, not the enemy, and as I’ve stated many times, he is an Islamist sympathizer. Perhaps y’all do not care, but I’m sensing you do—and [Democratic presidential candidate] Hillary Clinton, who believes we should empathize with our enemies, will be no different. Heck, maybe the former SecState will give the Islamic jihadists a reset button !"