Iran and the remain parties of the P5+1 met on Sunday to discuss the nuclear deal, and unanimously recommitted to try to save the deal in the face of US opposition and mounting US-Iran tensions.
Chinese officials say all parties are on the same page about implementing the deal in a balanced manner, and that all of them have expressed strong opposition to unilateral US sanctions against Iran.
The US sanctions are the biggest strain on the deal at this point. Since the US withdrew from the deal and started imposing sanctions, other nations are struggling to deliver Iran the promised sanctions relief the deal calls for. Iran has moved away from honoring all terms of the deal on their side unless the sanctions relief comes.
All the parties seem to agree that this is the problem, and the solution is to protect Iran’s trade from US sanctions. Exactly how they’re going to do that is another matter, but EU nations are increasingly opposed to the US sanctions, and Russia and China have already been mostly ignoring the US threats and trading with Iran anyhow.
But Donald Trump declared it to be the worst deal ever, and he’s a stable genius who has many, MANY words, the most words in fact, so i believe him.
Been here, they’ve said that. What are they going to do to stop the US unilateral aggression? All this fuss is over a non-existent nuclear weapons program… let’s start seeing serious punishment for those with active nuclear weapons programs in clear violation of the non-proliferation treaty.
Are Pakistan, India, and Israel a party to that treaty
I believe both Pakistan and India have signed the treaty, for whatever that’s worth. Israel never has, and neither confirms nor denies the existence of it’s own nuclear weapons.
Of course we won’t. Also, it has nothing to do with a nonexistent weapons program – that’s just the excuse. The real reason is Iran doesn’t kowtow to either the US or the EU or Israel. Period. End of story. Until it does, eventual war is inevitable.
As for the NPT, that is wielded against those the major powers don’t like – like North Korea and Iran. South Korea, Brazil, and others have violated the NPT worse than Iran ever did and all they got was a slap on the wrist. Israel isn’t even a member. And Pakistan and India are only threatening each other – so no one else cares.
International agreements are mostly observed only by weaker powers – the stronger powers only observe them in the breach. It’s that simple. The UN doesn’t have the power to do anything because most of the powers on the UNSC – who are the strong powers – have veto power over each other.
So international agreements and the UN are a waste of time for everyone. International relations remains the game of who has the greater military power – or enough to be a threat to a greater power – and who can run their intelligence and propaganda games better.
Indeed… and the whole point of there being a “security council” and the veto is so that the official nuclear powers can say NO WAY to anything without ending humanity. That is the exclusive club used to pound down the rabble. So there’s no incentive for the select few to give up that power, except perhaps the danger of everyone else demanding it.
That Trump can arbitrarily violate the JCPOA and impose unilateral sanctions on Iran, an illegal act of war, shows that we are no longer a constitutional republic governed by the rule of law. Why aren’t the Dems latching onto this as the major issue confronting the nation in the 2020 elections?
Welcome to international law, where the concept of “legal restrictions” only exists in the minds of fools.
Because that’s a snorefest for 99 percent of voters. I wish it weren’t so, but look at who’s in the white house and how he got there.
Oh no – what do you mean, how did he get there. Haven’t you read the Mueller Report?
They seem no better, especially if they support Biden.
NOT TRUE
“Iran has moved away from honoring all terms of the deal”
For the moment Trump violated the deal, the JCPOA automatically raised the 3.67% nuclear enrichment level to weapons grade 90%.
When Putin allows Israel to butcher Iran’s troops in Syria, when China is making a killing selling junk to Americans and EU nations love to trade war materials for Saudi and UAE oil, we should expect more good than evil to come from the JCPOA?
More irrelevancy. The US will continue to sanction, and the EU can’t protect Iran from sanctions without actually ordering EU corporations to trade and directly protecting them, not just with INSTEX. So it doesn’t matter who “commits” to what without any real action possible.
On top of which, the US, Britain *and* the EU are all interested in starting a war with Iran anyway. The EU just doesn’t want to be blamed for it – the US and Britain don’t care about being blamed as long as they can claim Iran started it. So the war remains inevitable. As usual, it’s just a matter of how and when.
Why would anyone (except Bibi ) want a war with Iran for spurious reasons?
Because people make money from war. Also, the neocons want to feel like they are the “Masters of the World.” So do the EU bureaucrats, when they’re not bowing and scraping to the US. The EU clowns have never given up dreams of regaining their colonies in the Middle East, and if not regaining them, at least controlling them. The EU also makes money from war there – witness British Petroleum and France in Libya.
remember Thucydides: “the powerful does what he wants & the weak suffers what he can endure”.