European nations are expressing concern on Sunday after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US is set to start reimposing sanctions on Iran lifted under the P5+1 nuclear deal. Pompeo says the sanctions will be “rigorously enforced.”
The US withdrew from the P5+1 deal earlier this year, but all other parties remain, and intend to keep up their respective commitments. European nations are concerned the US attempts to undermine the deal with new sanctions will fuel instability across the region.
The European Union has already committed to try to save the nuclear deal, and has passed legislation aiming to protect European companies who don’t comply with US sanctions. A lot of companies are still backing away, however, apparently unsure how well the EU will follow through on this.
The US is facing resistance from other signatories of the deal too, however. China has already ruled out complying with US demands that they stop buying Iranian oil. China buys about 35% of Iran’s exported oil, and likely will continue to do so.
“European nations are expressing concern” WHAT??? They are giving in to the blackmail, or their “companies” are scared of losing any profit at all, so they sink to this level of allowing the ILLEGAL, cruel and vicious actions of the USA, which is the one that broke its commitment to the international accord and now punishes Iran, which kept to the bargain. At this rate, the whole world’s international order is useless, as the big bully pushes the others around by brute force or by economic means despite its being completely unable to look after its own people unless they are the very rich or corporations.
whole world’s international order is useless..
On the contary it’s working just as washington designed it to. You might be thinking of that defunct concept of International Law which died some time in the 1950s
The US and groups such as Foundation to Defend Democracies are pushing the EU banks to ban Iran from SWIFT, seize Iranian deposits in the EU and refuse any imports or be thrown out of the US itself. Heard that on NPR today. An Iranian bank in Hamburg will be seized on August 25. Iranians have no access to western credit cards or banking, this is how the US/Israel plan to blackmail the EU into enforcing these draconian sanctions and pull out of the nuclear agreement.
“Foundation to Defend Democracies” is a lot like “National Socialism” in both its pretensions and its real nature.
An Iranian bank in Hamburg will be seized on August 25. This shows that the Euros are a US colony despite all their fine words.
There is only one party in breach of the agreement — the US. How will the rest enforce it? They have options. One option is to do a League of Nations style wimp out. That comparison puts Trump in the role of Mussolini and then Hitler. Yup. It fits.
Mark, you’re 100% right, and I wholeheartedly agree; there certainly is only one party in breach of the agreement — the US. So, how will the rest enforce it, really?? Sure, they have options, one option’s to do a League of Nations style wimp out, as you said, and that comparison puts Trump in the role of Mussolini, but Hitler, not so much,
The comparison to Mussolini fits to a T, his antics and Trump’s, in this case, are quite similar.
Pull your finger out Euros and sanction US comapnies in retaliation if your companiesare targeted. Otherwise you’ll be shown for the vassals you really are.