Iranian foreign Minister Javad Zarif has rejected US allegations that Iran has always been in violation of the P5+1 nuclear deal, dismissing the statements of Twitter. Experts similarly dismissed the claims, noting the lack of evidence.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed there “is little
doubt that even before the deal’s existence, Iran was violating its
terms.” She offered no evidence that this was the case.
Indeed, the US never made such allegations until now. Previously, the
administration had argued simply that the deal was bad, and the CIA
director had recently conceded that Iran remains “technically” in
compliance with it.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has pointed out since the
deal first came into effect that Iran has remained entirely in
compliance. This has often annoyed the Trump Administration, as it has
undercut attempts to see the deal destroyed.
Attempts to retroactively claim violations would be great for the US in
trying to get Europe to pull out of the deal. They are running up on the
serious problem that the allegations are simply not true, nor remotely
credible, which makes this seem like just another transparent US scheme
to undermine the deal.
As shown in this article, it is Israel that is largely driving the move to ban Iran’s missile testing program:
http://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/07/irans-missile-programs-and-israels.html
While Israel is allowed to protect itself from outside forces with its nuclear weapons and tens of billions of dollars worth of American military equipment, it believes that Iran, a nation that has suffered from missile attacks launched by its next-door neighbour, does not have the same right.
Only some are entitled to live, others are disposable. As Putin said many times, security should be indivisible, everyone on the planet having the right to be secure, guaranteed by international law that everyone supports. But when the country like US that is supposed to be the leader in promoting and supporting international law is the law breaker, it stops being a leader in the eyes of the international community. It is only the question of time before realization hits Washington that it is alone, and inly those expecting to milk it, would stick around.
They do say that a lie travels half way around the world before the truth has put its shoes on, and judging by the stuff which comes out of the White House I would have to agree.
The Iran deal has structurally frustrated the war propaganda machine for years, because multiple nations and a third party inspector could plainly verify Iran’s compliance. The US/Israel thus could not unilaterally claim violations, or be the sole arbiter of what was a violation, to weaponize an agreement in order to characterize the other country as being out of compliance. The hawks are nonetheless resorting to “they were always in violation” rhetoric in a desperate attempt to whitewash the facts prior to a military strike.
The new press secretary must have done her apprenticeship under Sarah Sanders. Throw enough sh*t against the wall and some is bound to stick.
Indeed:
“there “is little doubt that even before the deal’s existence, Iran was violating its terms.””
So they violated it before it existed?
Wow, I didn’t even pick up on that. That is hilarious!
Brilliant! Iranians were supposed to be in compliance with the Agreement way before agreement was reached. These are the new rules!
Just goes to prove that no one in the Administration even cares what comes out of their mouths any more, since no one in the US electorate other than us are going to notice or care.
Can these lies get any bigger? Whose are these clowns trying to convince? Really, it is hard to comment in such levels of stupidity. This is a war for nothing, waged by nobodies, in the interest of somebody to ashamed of their interests to reveal themselves, and using money and blood of innocents.
Too dreadful for words.
These guys just need to come clean. They don’t need to make any nukes because they bought couple of them from the black market. This includes at least one Soviet era backpack or suitcase that went missing in the 90’s and one probably purchased from North Korea.
Are we even bothering to note that the US government lies as a matter of course these days? I mean, sure, everyone needs to be reminded. but still…
We should just say “someone in the Administration spoke today” – that’s enough to tell us they lied…
We still read stuff about how Iran was “not in compliance” back in the early 2000’s when they announced their underground facility – which they didn’t have to announce within some given time before introducing centrifuges. As I recall, that was the reason their case got referred from the IAEA to the UNSC – even though it did not amount to a breach of the NPT and was merely a “technical violation” at best. Much worse violations – including enriching to weapons grade level – by South Korea just resulted in a slap on the wrist for South Korea. Other similar violations by Brazil were equally more or less ignored.
But of course the real reason for all this not to point out lies or not lies – but to point out that the goal of all this is to brainwash the US electorate, who couldn’t care less and won’t until they’re paying $20-30 a gallon for gas at the pump because the US is at war – again.
I don’t even know why the government even bothers to brainwash them any more, since with the Congress utterly under the control of Israel and the oligarchs and corporations, it’s not like the US electorate has any control over the government and hasn’t for several decades at least.
I just read this Reuters piece linked from the main page here.
European powers won’t trigger Iran deal dispute mechanism for now-diplomats
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iran-nuclear-europe-mechanism/european-powers-wont-trigger-iran-deal-dispute-mechanism-for-now-diplomats-idUKKCN1TX1EP
Look at how this is worded:
“French President Emmanuel Macron earlier on Tuesday urged Iran to rapidly reverse its first major breach of the nuclear pact…”
Iran is *not* “in breach” of the JCPOA. It is not in breach until either the Joint Commission *says* it is in breach, or until the *UNSC* says so, which can not happen until the Joint Commission refers the case to the UNSC – which the EU ministers have just said they’re not going to do right now.
In fact, they’re not even going to go the Joint Commission to make a formal complaint about Iran’s actions. It’s also not clear if the Joint Commission are going to address Iran’s either formal or informal complaints about the situation.
Right now, the *only* situation Iran is in is that it has stopped complying “in part” which Article 36 allows them to do until the issue is resolved to their satisfaction by either the Joint Commission or the UNSC (which will never happen in any event because resolution would rely on actions taken by the US which is no longer even a party to the JCPOA because it unilaterally withdrew.)
The point is no one is ever going to know this if they read the mainstream media because every time the situation is mentioned, Iran will be referred to as being “in breach” of the JCPOA.
Notice how fast the US government has picked up on this and is using to declare that Iran was “always in breach” of the JCPOA, as mentioned in this post.
This is how propaganda works. All of this is very deliberate on the part of the Administration, the EU, and Reuters. I don’t believe it’s just some “misunderstanding” on the part of the Reuters’ reporter.
Israel wants war. Americans will have it. No doubt. Reconcile. Suffer the consequences