The Trump Administration has been engaged in an anti-Iran diplomatic
push abroad since withdrawing from the P5+1 nuclear deal, but seems to
be hitting a major wall in that push at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in charge of enforcing the deal.
In 2015, the P5+1 deal was reached, and the IAEA closed decades of
investigations into Iran’s past nuclear activities. Since US officials
are no longer honoring the deal, they want the IAEA to reopen those
investigations.
The basis for this are claims from two US-based groups that were always
opposed to any deal with Iran, arguing that they have evidence (from
Israel) that Iran lied. The hope among US officials is that reopening
the probes would further undermine the deal, and might even convince the
EU to dishonor the pact as well.
The IAEA didn’t comment specifically on the US push, but appears not to
be contemplating any new investigations, or reopening any old ones,
reiterating that Iran remains fully compliant with the P5+1 nuclear
deal.
Good for the IAEA. At least one international body retains its integrity.
Maybe Trump can send in Bolton to threaten the IAEA’s director’s family members.
Yeah, at least one international body retains its integrity. But most do what the guise wit da’bucks tells-em to say, do or not do….. How can we tell if they are lieing? Check 2C if their lips are moving. The truth is always war’s first victim!!!
It won’t be long till the US/israel remove whoever is in charge of the
IAEA and install some obedient puppet.
They already did that. Even he rebelled.
Many of the comments below are cynical – we can never win, the guys with the money will always win.
Cui bono with comments like that?
They ONLY serve to discourage. How about some suggestions instead to shore up the IAEA as presently constituted and maintain its integrity? The guys with the money are powerful but not ALL powerful, not omnipotent. The first step is to realize that. The second is to find ways to defeat them. (A big fat contribution to Antiwar.com or similar antiwar organization – there are only a few that are genuinely and thoroughly antiwar – is a good way to start.)
BUT even if you have no idea what to do, you should at least call for suggestions.
Fatalism helps the guys with the money.
Why don’t you start off the positive parade, then? How does a citizen go about changing the behavior of the US government – besides contributing to this site?
A few humble suggestions to start with.. – don’t vote for either of the two evils, boycott all MSM outlets, of course boycott Israel
How about this…there are 3 things we can do.
1. Vote every single Congresscritter out. They’re all tainted. They’ll never change – or vote against their own interests regardless of whether it is in the best interest of the American people.
2. Get the money out of politics. It really is the root of all the evil they create.
3. And finally, make the position of Congressperson unappealing as a CAREER – reduce and tie the pay of a Congressperson to the annual average salary as reported by the BLS. In the 4th quarter of 2017, the average salary of the American worker (40 hrs/wk) was $44,564 per annum. There are too many millionaires in Congress who have lost touch with those they supposedly represent. Pay them what the average American gets.
The representative form of government created by the Founders was never meant to be what it is today.
I’ve suggested capping PRE-federal-tax congressional salaries — by constitutional amendment — at the previous year’s POST-federal-tax national median income.
I’m also in favor of getting money out of politics. But let’s be clear on what that means:
1) NO campaign contributions.
2) NO campaign spending.
3) NO tax revenues to play with once elected. And, come to think of it,
4) NO elections (they cost money).
I’m in on 1, 2. 3 and 4 seem to be necessary to me though I’m sure they could be done at much less than today. Then again, you could just be being snarky – which is ok also.
Bolton just needs to grow a pair and invade Iran, if that’s what he wants so much. Why the need for plausible deniability when nothing ever, ever happens to these mass murdering warmongers? I guess this is like foreplay for Bolton, so he can enjoy the death and destruction and inevitable blowback that much more when it happens.
“Bolton needs to grow a pair and invade Iran”. You mean send other people’s sons and daughters as cannon fodder. He and his family will be fine.
I could care less about the US state sponsored terrorists that we would send. My concerns are for any Iranians that get injured or killed by an immoral and illegal invasion.
Evidence from Is-rael?
How con-job convenient!