In a new statement ahead of her planned visit to Vienna later this week, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley condemned Iran, accusing them of “holding the world hostage” with the P5+1 nuclear deal, which both they and the United States are party to.
Many in the Trump Administration are openly hostile toward the nuclear deal, and Haley suggested Iran was using the existence of the deal as a pretext for “support for terrorism, disregard for human rights, and violations of UN Security Council resolutions.”
These allegations are built largely not on anything Iran’s done, but on consistent US efforts to undermine the pact with new sanctions to replace those they were required by the deal to lift, with Haley suggesting Iran thinks it’s immune to getting those sanctions back so long as they comply with the nuclear deal.
The State Department appeared to echo this narrative themselves, vowing to keep sanctnioning Iran for “non-nuclear” reasons whenever the opportunity presents itself. Of late, these sanctions have largely been on the basis that Iran is supporting Syria’s government against ISIS, a fact US officials have loudly condemned, and that Iran has tested missiles to retaliate against an oft-threatened US invasion.
How dare Iran sign a deal and adhere to it.
It is the US holding the world hostage, to its bad behavior over the deal we all signed together.
Iran would be foolish to give up that high ground. They’ve got trade with the rest of the world, and the US isolated on Iranian issues.
If there is one sure fire way to get the world recoil from US lunacy — this is it! Appoimt
absolute neocon dream candidates — and let them spout the craziest things. And then back it up with President who will take any McMasters recommendations on how to be tough on x,y or z, multiply by 100, and let it rip!! Add Mattis here with the skmple idea of annihilating all population of North Korea, and Trump’s sulphur and brimstone, nuking them, quartering and roasting — one would think neocons would be in heaven!!
But they are not. Furiously thinking of plan B. But do not underestimate them. With China promising to defend NK if attacked — South Korea was entrapped. For as long as US preassure was gradual, in neocon whining style of victimhood — South Korea could have their American cakes and eat Chinese ones too. But finding itself stuck between Chinese and American nukes, decided that the fun and games are over. And took Chinese threat seriously — meaning that a preemptive war is out. Considering that Russia backs China in the issue, Moon is facing double trouble in its neighborhood. But also, now it must back up the words with deeds. It will have to SOLVE the problem. Amd the solution is rather simple — guarantee that NK will not be attacked, no regime change organized and financed. In exchange for denuclearising. That will happen only if NK security is guaranteed. How will it affect missile defence in South Korea — clearly will be the key to the region. While Russia and Japan are currently taking a back seat, in the end any regional security agreement will involve them both.
Nikki Haley is a very special kind of stupid..
Who would have thought that Nikki Haley could outdo Samantha Powers with such ugly and dangerous vitriol. (Rhetorical)
Well, Donna, Nikki Haley did just that. Samantha Power was bad enough (she also had more experience), but Nikki’s a total loon .. She didn’t do well as Governor of South Carolina, due to her lack of political experience. She has no foreign policy experience either, and it shows. She’s been a Waffle House waitress all her working years and did quite well.
John “Bonkers” Bolton was the first of these loonies; however, his IQ’s also a good deal higher. I’d put Samantha’s IQ at around 105 and Nikki’s at the same level as that of G. W. Bush (95). Nikki’s nothing more than a screeching banshee and a huge embarrassment to the whole US delegation at the UN.
” She has no foreign policy experience either, and it shows. She’s been a Waffle House waitress all her working years”
I guess so, if by “all of your working years” you mean “none of her working years”:
“Haley worked for FCR Corporation, a waste management and recycling company, before joining the business of her mother Raj Randhawa, Exotica International, an upscale clothing firm. She began working there as a bookkeeper at age 12, later becoming a company comptroller and, in 1994, chief financial officer. The family business had an annual revenue of $1.8 million by 2004, and closed in 2008 upon Randhawa’s retirement. In her autobiography, Haley credited her time keeping the books in her mother’s dress shop with giving her ‘an extreme watchfulness about overheads and a sharp aversion to government intrusion.’ Haley was named to the board of directors of the Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce in 1998. She was named to the board of directors of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce in 2003. Haley became treasurer of the National Association of Women Business Owners in 2003 and president in 2004. She chaired the Lexington Gala to raise funds for the local hospital. She also serves on the Lexington Medical Foundation, Lexington County Sheriff’s Foundation, and West Metro Republican Women. She is president of the South Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and was chair for the 2006 Friends of Scouting Leadership Division campaign.”
This chick is a completely unhinged loon. Is she Bolton’s secret love child? Yeesh.
Nasty Nikki Haley is less attractive than Samantha Power & more repulsive than Madeleine Albright.
She is over the top insane, a rabid warmonger.
She’s saying the same s**t her boss said on his a** kissing tour of Saudi Arabia and Israel.
NIkki just accurately described the behavior of the United States, if one were to rely on facts rather than bullshizz…