EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini has addressed the ongoing
attempts to save the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran on Monday, saying the
EU doesn’t intend to activate the dispute mechanism, and is focusing on saving the deal through diplomacy.
The deal includes a dispute mechanism for when either side accuses the other of not abiding by the deal. Mogherini says that the Iranian noncompliance is “not significant” and isn’t worth raising the matter.
Iran has been wanting to get into dispute resolution mode for awhile,
based on EU countries failing to deliver on promised sanctions relief,
and has begun to violate the P5+1 terms by enriching to 4.75% instead of
3.67% just to try to get the process doing.
In keeping the “violations” small and easily reversible, however, Iran
has also made the issue too minor for the EU to even bother with. Though
Iran is threatening to do more just to try to force a negotiation, they
also hope the EU will choose to negotiate before it gets to that point.
US officials have made a much bigger deal of Iranian “violations.”
Ironically, since the US has already dishonored and withdrawn from the
P5+1 deal, they no longer have access to the dispute mechanism.
The whole nuclear agreement is surreal. Iran isn’t interested in a nuclear threshold status and is satisfied with basic nuclear capability(from which it would take a long time to a bomb), but the EU because of many years of propaganda considers it a major issue. So Iran has effectively made a deal by negotiating away something which it never was interested in in the first place . This is how they managed to handle the completely distorted mindset on our side.
Now the underlying reasons why such a big fuss was made about Iran’s nuclear program never went away: Iran had to be suppressed , and in a way the facade has dropped away now and the US are simply applying naked power. Never once has the mainstream wondered whether just maybe these underlying reasons might have been present in the time before the deal was struck.
Jason ignores the obvious benefit of not activating the Joint Commission – it allows the EU to complain about Iran’s “non-compliance” while ignoring Iran’s own formal complaint.
Obviously this doesn’t work to Iran’s benefit, because it allows the mainstream media and the Trump administration to loudly complain about Iran’s “non-compliance” and ‘breach” of the JCPOA while talking up war.
If the EU was really interested in “diplomacy”, it would use the Joint Commission to address Iran’s complaints first and then deal with the alleged “non-compliance” – which would no longer exist.
So the obvious conclusion is that the EU isn’t interested in backing Iran. They are just going through the motions, knowing that there is no way they can “save the deal” because there is no way they can offset US sanctions short of ordering (and compensating) EU companies to trade with Iran.
So once again, the whole thing is irrelevant.
Mogherini and the EU has never seen a conflict they wouldn’t run away from.
under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) it says, “if one side fails to deliver its commitments, the right is reserved for the other party to reconsider its obligations”.
When the Europeans and the United States do not fulfill their commitments, Iran can balance out its actions under the deal by reducing its commitments
Yep.
And Iran is still in compliance with its obligations under NPT, as it was before the US (which is not) and Israel (which is a rogue nuclear state) just up and decided that Iran was a special case that had to be even more restricted than NPT provided for.
Exactly