In a post on Twitter, President Trump offered a self-congratulatory announcement that sanctions on Iran have been reimposed, declaring them the “most biting sanctions ever imposed,” and saying that they are a push for “WORLD PEACE, nothing less!”
This is the first time Trump has couched the sanctions as seeking anything like peace. In general, he has presented them as punishing Iran for their civilian nuclear program, and trying to force them to negotiate. Iran has rejected any talks that come under threat.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is demanding massive, and largely unspecific, changes in behavior by Iran as conditions for any sanctions relief. Of course, we’ve seen in the past that US sanctions have a momentum of their own, and even in cases where, like Iraq, the sanctions escalated into an invasion, removing them didn’t happen instantly even after regime change.
Iranian FM Javad Zarif was very dismissive of Trump’s comments, saying “tantrums and CAPPED TWEETS won’t change the fact that the world is sick & tired of US unilateralism ” He predicted that “the world won’t follow impulsive tweeted diktats.”
That appears to be an open question. Trump is clearly betting, as the lone country pullout of the P5+1 nuclear deal, he can still force much of the world to go along with restoring the nuclear sanctions just for fear of being punished by the US.
Lets just stick with the world peace.
As for Trump IDK maybe he means it but if he does want peace it’s one hell of a way to go about it. Let’s hope they talk soon and work something out.
Trump wants out of Syria -but Iran has to go first- seems to be the demand. Israel of course wants Iran out, Russia probably would like them gone as well.
Who knows what Assad wants, maybe he would like to cut a deal as well, Iran goes and he stays? They will have elections eventually and when they do Assad will be term limited to seven years, if I remember correctly.
I can’t see Iran giving anything else away but they might agree to pull out of Syria, if they can find a way to save face. It’s costing them a lot of money and their dollar is in trouble already.
It’s not about nukes, Trump’s team knows that’s BS. Him pulling out of of the deal was about Syria not some non-existent weapons program. Israel really really really doesn’t want Iranian bases on their border.
Russian officials have stated that they believe any Iranian bases would be confrontational or provacative. That’s not exactly the right word but it’s roughly that. They don’t want a war between Israel and Iran either. So they might pressure Iran to get out too.
Israel and it’s defacto allies, not including the USA, spend more than 20 times what Iran/Syria spends on their militaries. US military aid to Israel alone is 3 times what Syria spends on it’s military, and Syria, unlike Israel, actually IS surrounded by hostile countries have have attacked that country.
Iran’s military “threat” to Israel is not creditable. Israel’s de facto allies dominate the region and together spend more than 10X what Iran/Syria does. This is all about ginning up conflicts to keep economies that rely on military Keynesianism running.
Rather than spending money on such, using those resources on building prosperity makes more sense. Perhaps one of the first things to be done could be to allocate resources to rehabilitate the insane warmongers of the world.
Sambor71, I agree that Israel and its de-facto allies (not including the US) spend more than 20x what Iran/Syria spend on their militaries; US military aid to Israel alone is 3x what Syria spends on its military; and Syria, unlike Israel, actually is surrounded by hostile countries that have attacked that country,
As yo said, Iran’s military “threat” to Israel isn’t credible; the Zionist Entity’s de-facto allies dominate the region and together spend more than 10x what Iran/Syria does. This is just ginning up conflicts to keep economies that rely on military Keynesianism running.
I couldn’t agree more; rather than spending money on such, using those resources on building prosperity makes a lot more sense; perhaps, one of the first projects to be done could be to allocate resources to rehabilitating the insane warmongers of the world, that is, if they can be rehabilitated; otherwise, arresting, charging, and prosecuting these same warmongers would be best for the rest of the world.
Even FDR could not create “World Peace” all by himself so who does Trump think he is when the other signatories of the agreement with Iran disagree with him? This has the smell of megalomania.
You’re right, Dieter, even FDR couldn’t create “World Peace” all by himself (actually, he helped Winston Churchill start WWII), so who does Trump think he is when the other signatories of the nuclear agreement with Iran disagree with him? As you said, this has a smell of megalomania.
Trump could’ve contacted Iranian President Rouhani and discussed this agreement in a reasonable manner, instead of just scrapping it altogether. Was the reason for doing it Obama’s signature on that agreement? If so, Trump’s scrapping of it was a childish act.
This is no time for impulsiveness from the nation’s leader; in fact, it’s quite dangerous. Not only has he scrapped what was a good deal, he’s enacted “war enticing” sanctions on Iran, a country that hasn’t attacked its neighbors in over 400 years. How does he expect Iran to agree to any summit talks after this? He’s delusional if he actually believes Iran will agree.
Is it not time to drop kick Israel / Zionist Menace to the curb? They have done nothing for America or the American people but cause havoc, bribe away billions of tax payer monies, and be an utter terrorist state with no regard for human rights, the rule of law, or just being an ally. Trump is unfortunately their lackey on every front, which is too obvious to the rest of the world.
The sanctions are a bid for world peace?
Like most of America and its elites he is demented.
John Bolton is certainly demented.
The UK, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are demented.
My last remaining hope is that the US juggernaut Empire of Insanity will be stopped cold by the Russian/Chinese alliance.
After the end of the Cold War how could it have come to this?
Simply Orwellian.
1984 is here, just a bit late.
Trump talking world peace to justify his belligerent and bullying tactics with Iran, that is just too precious….
I wish there were a great satirical writer in the world today able to take all this on