The latest quarterly report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) once again affirms that Iran is remaining entirely in compliance with the restrictions placed on them under the P5+1 nuclear deal. This is the second such report on the deal since the US withdrew from the pact in May.
The language of the report was virtually identical, noting that Iran’s production of enriched uranium continued virtually unchanged, and well within limits agreed to in the deal. Stockpiles have remained under the caps set in the pact.
Iran’s continued compliance with the nuclear deal was long a problem for the US, as the Trump Administration was desperate to portray Iran as violating the deal in some way. The facts of the situation have kept the other parties to the deal from joining the US in withdrawing.
Iranian officials warn continued compliance is not assured if the rest of the parties to the deal can’t ensure Iran continues to get the sanctions relief the deal guaranteed. The US, having reneged on the pact, is furiously scrambling to impose new sanctions, and trying to force the rest of the world to go along with them.
Iran should continue to comply with the deal. It makes us look foolish.
The “nuclear issue” itself is totally concocted, so the IAEA is actually irrelevant. Pompeo continues to repeat the long-standing US mantra that Iran is the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, a charge that has no proof but that doesn’t stop the MSM from repeating the bogus terrorism charge abut Iran which actually apply to Saudi Arabia and the US.
The major beef the US now has with Iran, adding to Israel hate, is the Iran role in the defeat of the US in Syrian regime change with a concomitant rise in Iran prestige.
November is slated to bring the results of the US attempt to completely shut down Iran oil exports. That should be interesting. Will it actually happen?
I agree that the nuclear issue with Iran by the Trump administration is concocted. It is piping by the pied piper of Washington. However the IAEA inspections serve a good purpose of proving how dumb/insane Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement is.
“The major beef the US now has with Iran…” I am sure that you mean that “The US” in this statement does not represent the great majority of our citizens who do not even know where Syria is. The Iran-haters (I am not among them) remember the occupation of the US embassy in Tehran. Allowing the occupation to happen was a major political blunder by the Iranian government at that time. Never give your opponent the ammunition with which he can hurt you.
However, the occupation of our embassy was at least a borderline terrorist act. It was intended to frighten the personnel of the embassy. Khamenei knew that and approved.
Yesterday I read an interesting comment in a Dutch newspaper. That commentator argued that it is the winning amateur politicians who insist that their campaign promises must be carried out no matter how insane these promises were and still are.
Rogue nations can be reigned in to a large extent by international cooperation. The US will eventualy cease to be a major player. Meanwhile we continue to be a hazard to international peace and stability. The sooner we decline in relevance perhaps the better.