Officials say that President Trump intends to impose new sanctions on Iran over last week’s missile test, with the announcement expected to come as soon as Friday. This follows comments yesterday by several administration officials threatening action against Iran, which might include military action.
Details of the new sanctions are still scant, and officials quoted by NBC News said nothing was final until Trump actually signed it. They did, however, insist the new sanctions would be of the form already in effect and would not violate the P5+1 nuclear deal.
That’s going to be a tough case to make, however, as the ban the US is accusing Iran of violating is on ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, which very much makes this a nuclear-related matter, moreso because Iran disputes this assessment, and insists the design was not capable of carrying such warheads.
Trump began ratcheting up the rhetoric this morning on Twitter, insisting Iran “should have been thankful” for the nuclear deal and not done the test. Trump also repeated the false claim, favored during his campaign, that the US “gave” Iran $150 billion as part of the deal, saying Iran was on the brink of collapse before that.
Trump also told reporters later this afternoon that “nothing is off the table” with respect to Iran, responding to a question about attacking Iran outright over the missile test. He did not elaborate further.
Here we go again, down the rabbit hole to endless f**king war.
Maybe? There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since the Iraq war which the US was able to justify with phony claims of WMD’s. Now, the claim won’t work, Russia’s interests are at stake, and the EU’s interests are at stake.
You can blame Obama for allowing this situation to be set up, which makes Trump’s/US’s job much more difficult.
Thing is though, if Trump has the backing of US congress and the backing of the American people, it’s going to be much easier for him to risk world war.
If he doesn’t have those prerequisites then his intentions will be difficult to pull off.
What a surprise…
Coming from an administration packed to the gills with Bibi’s butt babies, it’s truly a shock to hear them babbling nonsense regarding Iran.
What *would* actually surprise me is if any of these jackasses can see how much money can be made by simply ceasing the douchebaggery and idiotic shenanigans. Apple, Boeing, Intel, AMD, etc, etc…they all want a piece of the trillion dollar pie, without having to blow it up, scrape it off the walls, deal with the angry landlord, and put it back together again.
What is so seriously effing hard to understand for these particular talking monkeys? It’s easy money, just stop flinging poo at them FFS.
What a surprise…
Coming from an administration packed to the gills with Bibi’s butt babies, it’s truly a shock to hear them babbling nonsense regarding Iran.
What *would* actually surprise me is if any of these jackasses can see how much money can be made by simply ceasing the douchebaggery and idiotic shenanigans. Apple, Boeing, Intel, AMD, etc, etc…they all want a piece of the trillion dollar pie, without having to blow it up, scrape it off the walls, deal with the angry landlord, and put it back together again.
What is so seriously effing hard to understand for these particular talking monkeys? It’s easy money, just stop flinging poo at them FFS.
USg & US media should be suffering more of a credibility hit over this kind of thing than they ever do. It’s clear that gestures made against who-is-to-be the pop witch are not subject to application of fact, but are opportunistic scrambles to heap more scorn on a target.
It’s almost getting to the point where the Donald will no longer be seen as a non interventionist. Gotta love the old “nothing is off the table” tripe.
We at least thought war could be avoided by POTUS Trump, but he seems to have no idea of considering peace or keeping a working agreement going.