While everyone expected Iran to move quickly on implementing the P5+1 nuclear deal, US officials are alarmed at the alacrity of their compliance, saying they have “unreasonable expectations” that the West will implement their own side of the deal in a timely fashion.
US and European Union nations are all taking their first legal action toward sanctions relief today, calling it “adoption day” for the pact, though they likewise warn that actual sanctions relief isn’t going to be coming for months, at best.
Though on the one hand officials suggested two months as a timetable for implementation, they also said the Rouhani government’s desire to see the deal in force before the February election was “wildly optimistic,” and suggested that it would be six more months, at the earliest, before the US would follow through on the relief.
The overall attitude from US officials, and that some are already accusing Iran of “cutting corner” by moving so quickly, suggests that Western nations, and the US in particular, were expecting to be able to drag out their end of the bargain on the P5+1 nuclear deal.
That may not be realistic, however, as Iran seems to be quickly implementing the pact, and some of the EU nations, particularly Germany, have substantial business deals on the line with Iran, which would be threatened if they drag out implementation.
Count on the US to kowtow to the neocons by dragging out its contractual obligation to Iran.
First Iran is bad because they have a nuclear program. Now they are bad because they are dismantling their nuclear program too fast to comply with the deal.
Advice to other countries: don't trust the US about anything.
This mindset is typical of at all levels of U.S. government. Be it speed limits on highways, intoxicating substances or some other instance of Liberty, GovCo can take restrict your actions over night. However, restoring freedom, that seems to always take quite a while. Look at Drug Prohibition. Any new intoxicant that pops up can be banned and punished with felony level measures the moment some hyped up incident can frame said drug in a bad light. But, votes are cast by citizens to re-legalize cannabis and it takes months if not years to be able to legally use and buy the plant.
Tyrants don't give up their grip on tyranny easily. You might say they take the attitude that they'll give up their power when you pry it from their cold, dead fingers.
If Iran is moving too fast, that means there wasn’t much of a nuclear program to begin with.
How can a Nation , Iran, bargain in good faith with a group of nations that secretly fund violent and not so violent groups to attack it’s leaders?
You can only comply to your own fullness of agreement and try making the apparent duplicity of those US led powers be seen by rest of wotld.
Be a great tactic if we lived in a world whrre every nation was not afraiad of crossing US.
Also these other nations are under same threat, well at least their leadrs will not be assassinated by Israeli’s but by hired guns most likely US or their political opponents buddies.
Dare criticize in UN bam no foreign aid and your national currency on FOREX TANKS.
Got to hand it to Iran as they struggle for a national identity of both sovereign ad worthy of respect, even if by a bootlicking world.
It was always apparent that there was much bad faith and many lies on the US/Israeli side.
Of course, Iran was not always and consistently wonderful either, but a sudden burst of actually not cheating and in fact complying ASAP does throw the other cheaters and liars into a tizzy.
You mean the Empire is acting in bad faith? How surprising!
My understanding is this is the same reason why North Korea backed out from signing the NPT. We were supposed to lift sanctions and help them rebuild their country, but we kept dragging our feet. We know where that has led to. Is history going to repeat itself?
If it had been Iran doing the dragging, you could just imagine the hysterical whingeing coming out the US gov.