Speaking today at the American Enterprise Institute, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley insisted that President Trump could freely declare Iran in violation of the P5+1 nuclear deal whenever he wanted. She didn’t say he necessarily would.
Trump’s next deadline for certifying the deal to Congress would be mid-October, and Trump has already said he will declare Iran non-compliant at that point, despite the IAEA repeatedly declaring Iran compliant since then. Haley didn’t appear to see any problem with that.
Rather, Haley insisted that the questions of Iran following the letter of the deal was to get bogged down in “narrow technicalities,” and that it was time to move into the “big picture,” in which Iran can be declared in violation in some broad way.
Haley didn’t offer any factual violations, rather claiming Iran’s “long history of aggression” made it inherently in violation of the deal. She also false claiming Iran was violating a requirement to let the IAEA into its conventional military sites, despite the IAEA having already pointed out they can only visit such sites if there is evidence of activity there, and they have no such evidence, and moreover that they aren’t even seeking such access from Iran in the first place.
Haley also made note of Iran struggling to keep its heavy water stockpile below the cap, even though heavy water is not a proliferation risk, and the “cap” was meant to be in place to oblige the P5+1 to buy Iran’s access production due to the ongoing redesign of a heavy water reactor they were going to build. Indeed, the whole problem here was that after the US bought the first batch of heavy water, Congress was furious about it, and no one’s bought any since, leaving Iran stuck with it.
Haley is a rat neocon who has no business being our UN ambassador. She should be with people like Max Boot working in a rat outfit think tank.
She knows exactly what her master wants her to say. It is a preparation for the October nay.
Her master or McMaster?
“…didn’t offer any factual violations, rather claiming Iran’s “long history of aggression”…”
It seems when speaking of “long history of aggression” she conveniently forgets the US’s “long history of aggression”which includes the invasion and occupation of sovereign nations – something the Iranians haven’t done. It’s time an adult took over the US mission at the UN.
She lies. It is simple. Just like Colin Powell at the UN, it is all lies.
This will have a price. Such lying always has a price. It will be paid by the US, not just by the Administration doing it. They lie for us.
What is even more alarming is the chatter out there by the zio cons that she is the leading candidate to replace tillerson, who continues to receive hits from the zio cons.
Haley is bought and paid for my the zio cons: Adelson, AIPAC, CFR.
A total disaster waiting.
Washington thinks strategically. The US loses in Syria so turn the attention to dastardly Iran, which now controls the Middle East, Iran to the Med (thanks to US failures). Aren’t we fortunate to have such deep thinkers?
Can someone tell this woman to take the war paint off her face and go back to using Maybelline or whatever?
A recent article on the web on Haley was subtitled, ” The Neocon’s Heart Throb”. I’d go a bit farther, ” The Neocon’s Wet Dream”. She’s been described as Samantha Powers on steroids. I’d go a bit farther, Samantha powers on testosterone.