With the rest of the administration continuing to play up US hostility toward Iran in the wake of the admission that Iran is fully complying with the P5+1 nuclear deal, President Trump today accused Iran of “violating the spirit of the deal.”
President Trump offered no details on exactly what he was referring to, though the allegation is patently false at any rate, with Iran having no nuclear weapons program in the first place, and agreeing to drastically limit its civilian program in return for sanctions relief.
If anything, the US has been violating the spirit of the deal, having continued to prove a stumbling block for international trade with Iran, which was supposed to be freed up after the deal. Iranian officials insisted that no one was interested in “worn-out US accusations.”
US officials have confirmed they are “reviewing” the deal, though with no real basis for withdrawing from it, most experts agree that any US move to back out of the international pact would serve to isolate the US more, and have limited impact on Iran’s commerce with the rest of the world.
Maybe Iran is violating it by not violating it, failing to give an otherwise expected pretext for cancellation. Yeah, that’s the ticket…
It only proves once again that the USG is NOT trustworthy and never has been.
Trump has turned into a sock puppet, the Generals are now in charge. He is now George Barack O. Trump.
The Obama administration was just a continuation of the second term of the Bush Admin, and now Trump is a return to the first Bush’s first term.
The trickster is at it again. Because his own intelligence agencies told him that Iran is in compliance with the letter of the 5+1 agreement he constructs the absolute meaningless concept of violating the “spirit” of that agreement. We do not have a president. We have a barker-in-chief and a poor one at that.
And his errant nonsense cannot be blamed on “deep state” or the “establishment”. It is pure Trumpbull.
C’mon . . . get serious. Trump may be acting like an a–hole here, but you can’t deny the pressures on him from the Deep State!
There was equal pressure on Obama. He still managed to get the deal through.
Congress failed to ratify it, no?
The agreement was never submitted to the Senate for ratification because the Majority Leader had signaled: ‘we (the GOP) will make sure that you will not get 60 votes’.
Did it need to be? It wasn’t a treaty. Anyway, it got done despite the opposition of both parties loyal to Israel.
I have never bought and do not now buy the lame excuse “the Deep State made me do it”. That is aping Flip Wilson. Actually if the so-called “Deep State” existed it would have pressured Trump to use ‘the letter of the agreement’ and not “the spirit of the agreement”. The ‘Obama Establishment’ would have demanded that he state ‘Iran is not violating the agreement’.
Candidate Trump has on numerous occasions averred that getting out of the “flawed” Iran agreement was a “first priority” (I notice that his ‘first priority agenda’ was and still is impossibly crowded: Wall, Obamacare, Undocumented Residents, Tax Reform, Vetting Reform, ISIS, Korea, Iran, Yemen, Syria, all are “first priorities”. What a first-priority glutton he is!). If he is now somewhat prevaricating on some of these issues that might mean that he is more realistic than expected by many. It has nothing to do with “Deep State”.
When Trump states “If China will not take care of North Korea we will” it means “If China will not take care of North Korea I will”. On almost every issue Trump is given a set of choices. He is the one who chooses, not the “Deep State”. By using ‘the Deep State pressured him’ you create toddler Trump whose hand is hold by mama “Deep State”. That is a laughable cartoon. It is not reality.
Trump is hugely and sometimes dangerously confused because the White House is not a Trump Hotel but I cannot buy that this egomaniac dances at anyone’s piping
“Violating the spirit of the deal” means Iran isn’t willing to give up it’s sovereignty.
Hate speech by Trump
That adelson creature must be pleased.
No, you see Iran went for a missile test on a matter not connected to the deal, yes, but violated the spirit of the deal which is–“Iran? Listen to me. We’re in charge now. We create our own reality and you better go along with it okay? Got that? This is George W. Trump speaking!”
Another talking head pres.
What about the spirit of ‘international law.’
What’s Trump talking about? The USA is the only signatory that has neither ratified ‘the deal’, nor put it into effect. Thre IS no ‘deal’ for him to be so ‘mean-spirited’ about.
Netanyahu must have forgotten to tell him that his intelligence agencies have concluded that the 5+1 agreement was on the whole good for Israel. If Bibi has told him Donald has forgotten.
Ivanka told Daddy that she doesn’t like Iran & Jared echoed the comment.
Trump was either in bed with the Deep State/CIA OR he has been seriously COMPROMISED.
While the MSM pitted Trump against ALL type of Liberal turds & ‘psychologically’ played Hillary out as criminal (although true) , the people cheered louder for Trump, the underdog……Political Soap Opera at it’s Finest.
I ‘was’ a Trump supporter but the blinders have been pulled away, a point HAS to be made to SEE that what we were PROMISED is not what it APPEARS to be, cannot IGNORE the OBVIOUS inconsistencies ANYMORE.
Trump WILL make some corrections to Obama’s destruction (ALL PRE-PLANNED) BUT the MAIN AGENDA of the globalists will STILL be carried out. JUST MY opinion.
Trump is a fraud