European officials continue to try to come up with revisions or sideline deals for the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran to convince President Trump not to withdraw the US from it. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, however, rejected any changes to the treaty, saying Iran would not accept “one sentence” being altered.
“The nuclear deal is the nuclear deal,” Rouhani said. He added that no individual party to the treaty had the right to try to amend it after it had already been signed.
Sticking to the text seems to be fine for everybody except for Trump, who has given the world until May 12 to change the deal in ways he wants. He has threatened to withdraw sanctions relief obliged under the treaty, though Iranian officials note the US wasn’t in full compliance anyhow.
Rouhani appeared open to keeping the deal in place without US participation, saying Iran would stay in the deal so long as it stays in their interest. Other Iranian officials, however, have said they want enrichment curbs abandoned if the US withdraws from the deal.
Rouhani was also deeply critical of President Trump for trying to push changes, saying Trump has “no clue about the law or international treaties,” saying he’s “just a businessman” who shouldn’t try to pass judgment on international issues.
Whatever happened to the old adage: a deal is a deal?
The world has no reason to trust the US anymore and that has been true for a very long time. We have become ‘deal breakers’, not deal makers.
We threaten and coerce to achieve our way. Diplomacy be damned, Nikki Haley is the perfect example of that.
Pandora’s war jar has been opened and it is near impossible to put those evils back in…
Why does seemingly every head of state sound so much more adult than Trump? MAGA
Head of state ? Who doesn’t sound more adult than trump ?
True. I didn’t mean to imply it was ONLY heads of state.
Excerpt:
During a 36th International Fajr Film Festival (FIFF) in Tehran press conference, director Oliver Stone was asked who Trump resembles in cinema.
“Beelzebub,” he responded, the demonic biblical figure referred to as one of the seven princes of Hell:
(My emphasis)
Lucifer: pride.
Mammon: greed.
Asmodeus: lust.
Leviathan: envy.
Beelzebub: gluttony.
Satan: wrath.
Belphegor: sloth.
The seven deadly sins. (If the sin fits wear it…)
http://stephenlendman.org/2018/04/iran-rejects-nuclear-deal-changes/
All of them apply except, perhaps unfortunately, sloth. A bit of quiet and inactivity would reduce the harm he does.
Since we can change deals after the fact, Iran could claim, ‘ya know, instead of being allowed no nuclear weapons, we’ve decided that we want to have 1,000 nuclear weapons.’
Of course Rouhani is right, and the Europeans, INCLUDING the slimy micron from france, should accept it as it is and let the USA leave, foregoing the benefits already attached to trade with Iran by the rest of the signers.
It is time the “Europeans” stood up to the bullying and illegal actions of the USA.
Well, never say never. If the sea breeze is in the right direction, they may say why not. The British have tried for decades to emulate the Persian politics but have never come even close.
That said, the albatross tossed by Trump will be around the necks of the European countries not I.ran.
Message to the world: DO NOT TRUST THE US. Do not make deals with the US, period. Are you listening Kim Jong Un?