For years, one of the big criticisms of the US reneging on the P5+1 nuclear deal and withdrawing as a party was that the US had lost its seat at the table as a party to enforcement of the deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is now trying to find a way to have his cake and eat it too.
Under a new legal argument Pompeo is in the process of putting together, the US will argue that it is still a party to the nuclear deal with Iran, even though the US withdrew from the deal in May 2018 and never provided promised sanction relief. Pompeo would argue that this allows the US to force snapback sanctions on Iran even if everyone else objects.
Pompeo’s plan will argue that President Obama said at the time of the deal that the US wouldn’t need UN support for a snapback, though its almost certain Obama did not envision the US attempting this years after withdrawing from the deal.
This argument almost certainly will fail, and Russia will be assumed to veto any attempt to enforce snapback at the UN. That Pompeo is even trying this reflects just how flimsy the US arguments have gotten, and potentially that even the hawks are seeing that the pullout from the deal has cost the US some flexibility on the nuclear deal.
“The pullout from the deal has cost the US some flexibility on the nuclear deal”?
Pompeo is about as stupid as one can get. Plain and simple the US PULLED OUT of the deal and IMPOSED harsh sanctions on IRAN contrary to everyone one of their committments under the DEAL. Now to say they want in – without providing the sanctions relief they promised is just so STUPID its not even laughable.Is he a man or is he a MOUSE?
Neither. A toad by all definitions.
I agree, Bianca.
A dirty, smelly cowardly TOAD.
it is Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.
welcome to the New American Century.
You spelled Load wrong
Yes, a dictionary definition of a “contemptible and detestable person.”
“A toad”
Perhaps a cross between a toad and a lizard.
Toads are cool. Pompeo ain’t cool.
Our fat copy of Kim Jong Ill is just a regular American.
Pompeo cannot utter even the first letter of the first word of any speech without prior (mostly indirect) approval from Trump. He is neither man nor mouse. He is a lapdog who knows exactly what his owner’s Iran policy is. He does not even has to ask. He knows the consequences of deviation.
I disagree. Pompeo has his own agenda, which is to maneuver Trump into the war with Iran that the Neocons & Israel (or is that redundant) want.
So what is Trump’s agenda? Just keep destroying them economically until they capitulate? And if they don’t? And what did Trump, or any of his worshippers, think was going to happen when he was promising all of this while he was a candidate? Trump looks good because he just wants to kill silently. Fu**ing wonderful.
And there’s no reason for Trump to have such a deep personal animus with Iran. If it was just about undoing Obama’s deal, he didn’t have to keep ratcheting up the tension or assassinate a general. This is almost all down to Jared Kushner, who openly speaks with contempt toward the Palestinians and is the author of a “negotiated” deal which famously only involved one side’s negotiators. Bibi has Jared’s ear, and Jared has Trump’s brain (along with his daughter’s … well, brains aren’t everything). https://media2.giphy.com/media/26BRujQ23K5VkCbaU/giphy.gif
>>>Now to say they want in – without providing the sanctions relief they promised is just so STUPID its not even laughable.Is he a man or is he a MOUSE?<< What Pompy is saying is ** [they are still a party to the deal and] this allows the US to force snapback sanctions on Iran even if everyone else objects.** A case, as Jason Ditz says, of having your cake and eating it too. Man/mouse/toad? Bianca, a pangolin that spread [p.t.] the fake C19! Just a "snapback": Bianca showed to Knapp a week ago China had revealed their findings within a day of knowing the full analysis (26 Dec first cases; uptothen analysis revealed to WHO and USA by end Dec), so the argument they concealed the disease to harm people is lost.
He is the USA’s top diplomat. what does that tell us?
Wanna recognize this symbol as legit Iranian:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Lion_and_Sun_%28Pahlavi_Dynasty%29.svg/735px-Lion_and_Sun_%28Pahlavi_Dynasty%29.svg.png
In one sense, Pompeo is correct: Since the deal was codified as a UN Security Council resolution, the US did not “withdraw” from it, since the only way to do that is to withdraw from the UN itself. The US is in VIOLATION of the deal, which is a different thing altogether.
I hope that our government will submit a resolution. As far as I can tell the only vote which our government can afford to buy is that of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. A few million perhaps in foreign aid?
Hmm. So, Fat-face Pompass – in one sense – is correct: Since the deal was – as you said – codified as a UN Security resolution, the US didn’t “withdraw” from it, since the only way to do so is to withdraw from the UN itself. The US is certainly in violation of the deal, which is a different thing altogether.
What it shows more than anything is how one-sided the deal was in the first place, in that there are punishments for Iran should it have violated the deal, and, seemingly, none for the US for walking away from it, nor effective remedies that Iran could pursue. The US set up most of the world’s international organizations and wrote much of the laws, but you know, exceptionalism. (Cue the song: You Are The Only Exception)
Would it not be less expensive the buy the oil than to use our military to steal it?
It would undoubtedly be more ethical.
But then how would the military-industrial complex and its shareholders keep raking in the big bucks?
I think things that I can’t write. They involve people like Pompeo and Dick Cheney. They involve long periods of miserable, painful, torturous….. better stop there. Please Karma, do your thing.
What we really need is a Karma virus.
He does not yet realize that Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the only UN Security Council member which will vote with us.
Once he realizes that fact he will begin to backpedal.
trump reneged because he is a renegger
To advance your wordplay: Renege–>renegger
he’s not just a narcissist but also a nastycist.
Nastycyst.
Pompeo “we lie, we steal, we cheat” is the worst diplomat…and the most stupid…..ever.
Albright could give him a run for his money… And Clinton still reigns supreme as “WORST EVER..”
you got a point, no one comes close to Clinton`s evilness “we came, we saw, he died…. hahaha”, or Albright`s 500 000 iraqi children’s death was worth the sanctions.
So far.
Pompeeo is sounding very Israeli today.
It is hard to know who or what is driving this clown but my guess is that he is lap dog of some very vicious anti-iran “think” tanks with their very vicious zionist oligarch backers; thus as is reported, he is positioning for a pres run in 2024 (God help us and the world).
Obviously, this is wild speculation on my part but he is very close to FDD, one of the most vicious anti-irans.
Bolton was clear and now Hook is clear that the us is out of the agreement! Snap backs will not work.
*US is part of the nuke deal even when it’s not.
*We are a market-based economy even when we are not.
*We are the exceptional nation no matter what.
Gotta love it 🙁
Can’t trust them Eye-Rain-ians to keep their word and stick to a deal! They hate us and everything we represent. We gotta nuke ’em before they can nuke us. Uncivilized basterds think they gonna one-up us! Hah, we nuked two cities awready back in Dubya Dubya 2. Showed everyone Who’s The Boss, Tony Danza, that’s who… huh… done lost mah train o’ thought. MAGA!
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the US secretary of state “stop dreaming” amid reports that the US was planning to make the convoluted legal case to the UN that Washington was still part of the JCPOA for the purposes of applying new sanctions against Iran.
“2 years ago, @SecPompeo and his bossed declared ‘CEASING US participation’ in the JCPOA, dreaming that their ‘maximum pressure’ would bring Iran to its knees. Given that policy’s abject failure, he now wants to be a JCPOA participant. Stop dreaming: the Iranian Nation always decides its destiny,”
The USA wants to be in charge even though it often withdraws from deals and often does not even join them (eg the ICC). It ignores international law and yet forces others to follow its lead.
So the US pulled out of the deal but then when they think it’s to their advantage to be in it they claim they didn’t really pull out. What a bunch of liars. I don’t think very many countries trust the US anymore, and they are right not to.
Blah-blah-blah… I wonder when the rest of the world is going to decide that they’ve had enough of the U. S. thinking that they’re in charge of everything, calling ALL the shots, telling everyone else what they can and can’t do, but doing whatever they want? I mean talk about a collection of nutless, cowardly pussies running ALL the other countries. You people in every other country in the world should not only be embarrassed, you should be damned ashamed of your leaders AND yourselves.
The worst part about being an American is knowing that ALL our politicians in Washington D. C. know what Nutty-yahud’s penis tastes like.
He’s had enough cake. Let him eat shit.