While the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran has been in place for almost a year now, and the only real compliance questions center around the US not following through on all the pledged lifting of sanctions they were supposed to do, officials now say the Obama Administration and the rest of the West are pushing to add even more restrictions on Iran.
It’s not so much that there’s a technical justification for any of these new restrictions. Rather, officials say the goal is to even further limit Iran’s civilian nuclear program before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office, in hopes that it will eliminate any excuse he has to scrap the pact.
Though Trump campaigned on the idea of ripping up the Iran deal if elected, though since then his aides have said the focus will be on strict enforcement of the pact. This enforcement strategy is also being advocated by Republicans and the Israeli leadership, both of whom previously opposed the deal on any terms.
Officials say Iran has engaged in talks about these newly proposed revisions but hasn’t committed to anything. The main focus appears to be to even further limit the amount of enriched uranium they are allowed to keep, though in practice this will primarily be a problem with compliance so long as the same Western nations remain inconsistent in following through on a pledge to give them access to the international market.
The idea that Trump campaigned on “ripping up” the Iran deal is a ****ing lie! How low is Antiwar.com going to sink, or is this a Jason Ditz initiative (the writer of many false stories)?
“My number-one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran.” Donald J. Trump, speech to AIPAC, March 2016
Yes, he’s been back and forth on it, just like he’s been back and forth on everything else. He seems to say whatever pops into his pea brain at any given moment when he’s trying to figure out what any given audience wants to hear. But at times, yes, he did campaign on exactly that.
It is useless trying to mollify Trump.
The US is going to have an uphill battle when it comes to “enforcement” as they have yet to do much of anything to hold up their end of the bargain. If Iran had the power to nuke the US, the cacophony coming from The Blob would be completely different. They just want to overthrow Iran’s government so they can balkanize it and install another brutal dictator. It’s the good old Explore, Exploit, Expand, Exterminate economic model.
The United States has NEVER done anything to uphold its end of the deal, and it will be a blatant breach of the treaty by the US! Its is time to call the US out on its treaties they rarely uphold them at all! American Exceptionalism every body has to do this EXCEPT America, World Court not America but hey they demand others to uphold a ruling! UN security council resolution they dont like it even one they didn;t veto and it never gets actioned on yet they action claiming a resolution even when there isn’t one! when was the last time the US actually prosecuted a war crime for a senior officer or politician there are plenty of them on the books, even the US Supreme Court has said in Hamdin V Rumsfeld the actions of the US President were probably War Crimes, is there any Higher Court in the land and that was at a time when we had even less information than now!
Back when Bush was awarded the Whitehouse by SCOTUS there was another agreement with an unpopular country, Clinton had made a deal with the North Koreans shut down a Plutonium making nuclear reactor and we will give you fuel oil to run an equivalent power station, this they did they shut down their Plutonium Nuclear plant and it was COLD, however John Bonkers Bolton convinced Bush to rescind the deal so the North Koreans without power fired the Reactor up again noting it wasnt them that BROKE the deal, Now the North Koreans were also being threatened on a daily basis by the likes of Bonkers in the UN and they having plenty of Plutonium on hand decided that they could use it to make Nuclear weapons and today they have the said Nuclear weapons! Are we going to see another stupid bunch of Republicans do the same thing they dio with North Korea and see a reestablishment of the now dead Iranian Nuclear cycle because of their stupidity!
Isn’t Iran a party to the NNPT? Other parties to the NNPT are supposed to help Iran to develop peaceful nuclear power not stop them?
Why would Iran agree to changes when the current agreement isn’t honored by the USA?