While previous reports have indicated that there was little interest in talking about a new nuclear deal with Iran, the withdrawal of the US from the existing deal appears to have changed things. Now, Russia, China, and the European Union are to hold talks on a major revision of the deal later this week.
This new deal would keep Iran’s requirements the same as the existing deal, but would increase the incentives guaranteed by the other powers. This is an attempt to keep Iran complying with the deal as the US ratchets up sanctions.
While the US was the one pushing for a “new” deal in the first place, the other nations have kept the US completely sidelined in these new talks. This is unsurprising, as many see the US trying to undermine any such deals.
The new deal is said to offer Iran billions of dollars in financial aid to make up for the US dishonoring the pact and withdrawing its own sanctions relief. The deal also aims to pledge international cooperation to prevent US sanctions being enforced internationally.
Secretary Pompeo is about to unveil the administration’s “Plan B” for Iran. Apparently it is a combination of nuclear, rocketry, and “meddling in the region”. The President does not seem to understand that he is in a considerably weaker position vs. Iran than Obama. Trump does not have the support of Russia, China, France, and Germany when Plan B is launched. GB, our lapdog is uncertain. The remainder of the world, except Israel, did not rejoice when Trump pulled out of the Iran agreement.
With regards to the rocketry of Iran it would have been much wiser to stay in the Iran agreement and demonstrate first that you can make N. Korea, which has rockets that can reach US territory, give up all of its ICBM’s. Plus all rockets that can reach Japan and Okinawa.
It’s plan BBBBB, as in McCain’s “Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.
Except that PPPPP in pants is constraining the Big, Bold, Bad, Blustery self. Not knowing exactly what P had exactly communicated March 1 — it feels safer to a/ let Europe cry victim Big Bad Donald, while trying to wiggle its slimy “activists” into Iran in the name of getting closer, and b/ continue to stir trouble anywhere a chance occurs.
Rattlesnake is a safer companion. EU is utterly untrustworthy. Remember Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Ukraine, as well as still active meddling in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Mali, Ivory Coast, and others. Currently, starting to meddle in Armenia and Azerbajan. Just to spite Russia and Turkey.
Germany is begging Russia to take the brunt of Donald’s ire, and defend North Stream II, doubling of current gas pipeline capacity. If Europe cannot protect its oen energy interests, is it going to protect Iran’s?
Let Europe commit to US shale gas. And stop trying to play nice with Russia, while stabbing it in the back time and again. As US investors in shale are already grumbling — let Germany show some faith. Investors in US are telling shale companies to stop counting barrels, and start making profits. But of course, they cannot — they are still spending more on producing, then the revenue generated by sales. It is still the magic of financing. But when the music stops playing, it is the taxpayers that will be asked to bail out financial institutions that will go bust. Let Europe share the burden — after all, we are protecting them from Russia, right?
Good news in wanting to improve the present Agreement between Iran on one side and EU, China, and Russia on the other side.
We now hope Iran also goes for it.
It will mot happen as EU is nothing more then a subsifdiary of NATO, and many EU treaties need changing to eliminate provisions that obligate EU to have its foreign policy alligned with NATO. Which in reality is US, as NATO is run by Supreme commander, ALWAYS an US general reporting to the US President. So, current charade, sharp words, and indignation is all an act. It is following old Kissinger global domination plan where US represents a military fist, and EU a moderate, “values” driven facilitator, negotiator, provider of “services”, such as building rule of law, organizing elections, supporting human rights, NGO activists, etc. in short, return if soft colonializatiim fir all thise countries that fall for the siren song of EU munificence.
As Iran put it, political support is great, but if EU bails out economically — it would actually support Trump policy on Iran. EU is just looking out for ways to get its organs penetrate Iran’s internal political scene, to then manage it with its autoritative “human rights” choreography.
All we need to see is how EU handled Kosovo. First it brought to Kosovo its rule of law mission. The crime gangs and terrorist run state was thus protected from criticism, as it continued to brutalize minorities, humiliate their representatives, engage in organ trading, forcing people to sell their land and homes for peanuts in order to save themselves from thuggs in plain view of EU officials. Now, EU has directly involved itself under UN umbrella in negotiation, while the rule of law mission, EULEX, is today an open organ in service of the same thugs. Look at the Soros and EU sponsored Armenian street method of “elections”. The moment the new leader got his premiership, started undermining the cease fire agreements with Azerbaijan, and started to advocate ild YS plan that calls for Nagorno-Kharabak Armenian and Azari communities to be represented at negotiations, instead of Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiating directly. It is not complicated to see the goal — Armenians jn this exclave have support from US diaspora and implementing US policy. RIGHT ON CLUE European bodies and media suddenly discovered Azerbsijan “laundromat”, a slush fund for bribing EU politicians to protect Azerbaijan from bad press! As if this is a novelty — all countries do that. But now that Azerbaijan is refusing to play energy games against Russia, and is close to Iran and Turkey — time to beat up Azerbaijan, prop up irrational Armenian goals, and stir up trouble. EU institutions are speahheading this choreography. Same with Ukraine — EU still blaming Russia, instead of owning the responsibility for the coup.
EU will never be a partner to any other country, unless it has an agenda approved by US. After German and French elections — this is more true then ever. EU has one role — to convince Iran to stay in the agreement while being punished by sanctions. This will not happen, as China and Russia are pushing for renegotiated deal — better one for Iran. But if EU wiggles out — as it surely will — China, Iran and Russia will cut another one. The era of competition between China-Russia free trade network vs. Western block-dictated sanction based coerced trade begins in earnest.
This is hopeful,though I can’t think of one situation in which the EU actually went against the US, instead of just talking about it.
Good and stick to it. The U.S. belligerents especially ignorant bullies such as Trump only understand fierce push back and no compromise. They know they can sanction until the cows come home but if the rest of the world doesn’t comply, which they shouldn’t, the U.S. would be killing themselves. All the clowns who enjoy a certain living standard in the U.S would soon find out how being sanction by the world affects their lives which would then make the bully trump and his neocon aholes back peddle.