In comments over the weekend, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed that “working groups” have been established between the United States and the three European powers of the P5+1, Britain, France, and Germany, on revising the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran.
This is the first time there’s been any confirmation of any nation other than the US being willing to even consider changing the deal. Indeed, Iran has long insisted that there was no possibility of a renegotiation.
Signs are that the way around this is for the US and EU nations to come to some sort of “side agreement” that changes the terms of the deal, and then demands that the remaining parties accept them unconditionally. This would include a sideline deal that even though the P5+1 agreement explicitly allows Iran a less restrictive civilian nuclear program after a number of years, the US and EU nations would forbid Iran from having that ever.
This raises another question, about whether the US and the EU nations are really able to have “negotiations” themselves, since President Trump started this whole demand for “fixing” the deal with a broad series of demands, and it’s not clear Trump is willing to accept anything short of them giving him everything he wants.
If by “fix” you mean the US will abide by the agreement it signed, well I am all for it! If by “fix” you mean the US will appear even more petulant and disconnected from reality will then I wish he would stop
There seem to be several parties missing working groups here. China, Russia and Iran come to mind. Have Britain, France and Germany commented on this?
LMAO. Reality seems missing in the western world. Hopefully the British, French, and Germans are only giving Trump some air time and are not serious.
Tillerson used to be level headed and said we should abide by the deal. I guess he wants to keep his job after all.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/28/trumps-foreign-policy-service-israel/
Merkel ,Macron and May should be ashamed at this gross misbehavior giving substance to the completely false idea that the JCPOA needs to be or can be changed. M,M and M join Trump in the Israeli-led push to scuttle a working, well-accepted agreement worked out carefully and following two years of successful use.
Iran should get out of the deal if they can. Iran has rec’d no benefits from limiting their nuclear programme since the US has coerced other nations and prevented them from investing there. I’m amazed the Iranian gov’t wants to stick with this stupid arrangement. Perhaps future elections will bringing a regime to power in Tehran less subservient to the west.
Since Iran doesn’t seem to have been working on nuclear weapons before the deal, they didn’t lose anything by taking the deal. Now that they’re in the deal, they want any embarrassment over backing out of it or screwing with it to be 100% Washington’s. I don’t blame them.
Why undesired diversions?Let Netinyahu spell out his demands specifically. Trump,Macron,Merkel are all irrelevant.