Though the comments were nominally presented as his own “commitment” to stop Iran’s civilian nuclear program, French President Francois Hollande’s specific assurances were actually made on behalf of the US Senate, and not France at all.
During his media “meet and greet,” Hollande insisted that the US Senate was determined to move against Iran with more sanctions and would “squash” the Iranian economy to punish them for “evading” negotiations with the P5+1.
The P5+1 talks have been stalled for a few days after the US imposed new sanctions, something Russia and Iran both warned was in violation of the spirit of the interim agreement. Iran’s negotiator says the talks will resume in a matter of days.
Hollande’s comments suggest he retains a substantial chip on his shoulder about the whole process, having attempted to kill the interim deal in early November. For now he seems content to wait on US Congressional hawks to try to derail the talks, but this also suggests France will remain an obstacle to any final pact.
its about time that the majority of the world's nations gave the usa [and its supporters/friends] the attention they deserve and ignored them and their unilateral sanctions. these countries/largely western governments do not represent the majority of humanity[ nor possibly even the majority of their own people- Israel being the possible exception to the rule] and have nothing constructive to contribute to the rest of humanity and all it problems, except fraudulent financial instruments which have brought the world's economy to breaking point,/meltdown, lying, warmongering and bad faith. if everyone ignored them, there would be little they could do.
as rozeff said: The neocons want to strangle Iran. Why? Must Iran be throttled to protect Americans? Must Iran be strangled to protect Israel? A “yes” answer to either question is senseless.The warmongers in Congress are a serious menace to Americans. Their threat to Americans is far, far greater than any known terrorist threat and certainly immensely greater than any threat emanating from Iran.They need to be identified by name and removed from office. John McCain, Robert Menendez, Bob Corker, and Mark Kirk who are speaking out against Iran.Add Eric Cantor, who called the interim deal “dangerous”, when the U.S. made almost no concessions whatever to Iran. Add Eliot Engel, who wants Iran 100% out of the uranium enrichment business, no matter what treaties allow it. Add Michael McCaul, who thinks it’s dangerous to lift sanctions and who has misrepresented the U.N. resolutions. Add Brad Sherman, who thinks the U.S. should keep ratcheting up sanctions during negotiations. Sherman has openly said that he wants sanctions that will hurt the Iranian people.Why? The only end game that their drive has is to reduce Iran to a nonentity and a powerless country.
Why aim at reducing Iran to rubble when it has no nuclear weapons program and, even if it did, poses no threat to America?The only end game that their drive has is to reduce Iran to a nonentity and a powerless country. That’s what they want. That can only be done by violently overthrowing its system, i.e., by a costly war. And what would such a war win for Americans? Generations of costly grief in an effort totally to prevent the possibility of Iran’s having or developing a nuclear weapon. This makes no sense .The answer of these anti-Iran officials is to protect Israel. But that’s not a sensible answer either, for many reasons. Israel has an abundance of armed forces and a stockpile of nuclear weapons to defend itself.The old Cold War order has matured into an American-led Western Alliance of which NATO and the EU are components.Their vision is one of controlling the world’s destiny according to their own crude notions of how societies and states should be structured into a world order. http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/michael-s-roze…?
This is a stupid, Zionist driven agenda. Only a tool like Hollande (the bland, faceless bureaucrat) chosen just for the fact that he has no backbone and is infinitely malleable.