On comments on Friday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman rejected French calls for new nuclear talks, saying that France’s partners, clearly a nod to the US, are bringing “bullying and excessive demands” to the table.
Saying all of Iran’s past efforts on the nuclear deal are being “nullified” by the US, the statement went on to say “there is no reason, need, reliability, or trust for negotiations” on the nuclear deal, and many aspects are non-negotiable at any rate.
The US withdrew from the nuclear deal in May, demanding Iran make a slew of new concessions. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday Iran needs to prepare to negotiate further if it wants to keep the international community satisfied.
Iran has been complying with the P5+1 nuclear deal, and has been pushing other signatories to ensure that sanctions relief promised under the deal continues, despite the US trying to undermine it with more unilateral sanctions.
That sounds like Supreme Leader Khamenei who once said–
“unreliable, arrogant, illogical, and trespassing government, which is badly possessed and dominated by the international Zionist network.”
The supreme leader certainly has us pegged correctly.
Thanks Don for this input. We can see who has the sense and the moral right in the disagreements.
Looking at the above quote, I suspect a problem with translation accuracy. In the sentence:
“They are forced to appease the extorter and forged regime that has occupied Palestine to observe the illegitimate desires and interests of the international Zionist network.” I would guess that “observe” should be “serve”, and that “forged” (in several places) probably should be something like “counterfeit” or “fraudulent”.
Just a thought.
Ah, yes, France, another great colonizer.
Well, there goes satrap no 1 …. UK won’t be too far behind, nor Germany. Has Europe any pride at all?
“French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday Iran needs to
prepare to negotiate further if it wants to keep the international
community satisfied.” We know who the “international community” is and the blackmailers will win if this suggestion is followed. The USA is the transgressor, and it is the one which needs to conform to international agreements and even some sort of morality.
We are witnessing a vast change in world politics. The US has said that Iran will have zero petroleum exports after November 4th. But India has said it won’t observe this, and now China has said that it will buy Iran oil in renminbi (yuan) thus isolating itself against US sanctions which must be based on the dollar. Iranians will then have to buy Chinese goods (as the US now does).
So Iran, resisting US world hegemony, stands as an example to all the other nations which have been US-oppressed. Also China is pushing its Belt & Road Initiative which will build up the Eurasia economy, with its land connections bypassing the US control of the seas. The main threat to the US is this potential China-Russia-Germany land connection. And it ties in with Trump’s non-alliance America first strategy! That’s the beauty of it.
That is a hopeful interpretation that makes sense. If I were leading Iran right now it would be very hard to decide how to proceed. It’s clear they will not get the sanction relief they were promised BY NUMEROUS NUCLEAR POWERS, despite Iran’s full compliance with what they agreed to. I’m sure many in Iran are calling for building nuclear weapons now to deter threatened attacks by various regional aggressors and the US. Those threats will be all the more real if Iran’s example of independence starts catching on, which certainly may happen. But large-scale attack on Iran without Iran having first given us a major excuse to do so would further mangle worldwide trust in the intentions and reliability of western leaders. I hope they continue to approach this in a calm and positive way.