Following up on yesterday’s report that President Trump is going to decertify the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran on the grounds it is “not in America’s interests,” he is stepping up threats against Iran, promising a “broad strategy” to punish Iran for all of its bad behavior.
Decertification would lead to a vote in Congress, which Trump appears to believe will lead to the US withdrawing from the P5+1. This isn’t going to take place until next week, however,which has fueled speculation Iran might be coerced into making new concessions to placate him.
Iran, however, says that this is not the case. Noting that they’re complying with the nuclear deal as it is, Iran has denied reports they’d be willing to negotiate on their conventional missile program, saying they believe demands for more concessions are a violation of the UN Security Council resolution on the nuclear deal.
It would be odd for Iran to try to make a second deal, having complied with the first one and still faced constant threats and condemnations from the Trump Administration. Rather, Iran’s strategy appears to be to try to salvage the P5+1 deal, even if it’s without US participation.
Which could well happen. The other P4+1 nations all seem happy with the deal as is, and don’t act furious every time the UN admits Iran is complying. They may well decide that the US pullout is just a show of bad faith from the Americans, and not a reason to revise the deal for the remaining participants.
That concern is actually one of the main arguments officials have made to Trump against withdrawing from the deal, warning that it would both hurt America’s reputation and remove them from the deal for no real benefit.
At what point do the other world powers come to the decision to sever relations with Trump. Once he attacks Iran militarily or once he supports Israeli attacks?
Regardless I think everyone understands this is all lies and Iran is actually not the evil empire it is made to be in American media.
Candidate Trump made four major promises during his campaign. Rescind and replace Obamacare. Get a new tax law. Begin to build a complete solid wall along the border with Mexico. Repair the nation’s infrastructure. Get out of Paris agreement. Get out of Iran agreement. Of these six promises only one has been kept and that was an easy one. Paris. Getting out of the Iran agreement is only semi-easy because the Congress has a say in it. Nevertheless it is easier than Obamacare, the wall, infrastructure, tax law all of which involve the US Congress because he can toss it to Congress every 3 months.
you forgot his major promise,”on jan 21 2017 ,’ he swore to have killary arrested and charged.
It would seem there are unpublished financial motives in play,
and the “campaign promise” optics.
There is no way Iran would sacrifice its missile or satellite programs.
The sanctions were never US sanctions, because the US had no relations to cut off by sanctions. Those other nations in the agreement had relations, and they cut them off to assist the US. Now they’re done. No more.
That means Iran has what it wants, opening to the world. Iran never did expect good relations with the US, nor really want them.
There is still the prospect of third-country sanctions, which the US can exert through its control over banking systems. Sanctions by the US against Iran will force the Europeans to take steps to confront the US and protect their banks from retaliation by the US, which will very likely lead to a god-awful mess, with retaliatory actions back and forth. Ultimately the EU, China, and Russia will have to either follow US orders, or set up an independent international financial settlements system, one that would not go through New York, and shut the US out of it.
China is already setting up an alternate international financial settlements system. Petroleum, which has been tied to the dollar, and the dollar only, can now be sold to China for the Yuan, and then the Yuan can be traded for gold in China – actual, physical gold. If countries like Venezuela have their choice of dollars and interference from the USA or a truly free trade with China, guess who they will want to sell to? The USA has gone mad and deserves the thorough pranging it is going to get. Tis a pity that Wall Street can’t just starve without dragging the rest of the country with it,
not true,iran actually tried many times to become friends with the u.s. but were rebuffed. allegedly because in 1979 they captured the u.s. embassy. that silly excuse is used to hide the fact that the iranians actually threw the u.s. puppet ,the shah ,out of their country
Watch congress, including the Democratic# Resistance all vote to wihdraw like the good little Zionist toadie Israel firsters that they are.
gee,what happened to the chest beating competition with lil kim? frump cared less about iran until mileikowsky came to town peddling his iran paranoia. frump is demonstrating again,he is wishy washy and easily influenced ,bought
The best way to weaken a rogue state is to strip it of its allies.