Delivering his Eid al-Adha address, Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the idea of having nuclear talks with the US, and rejecting the possibility of getting rid of Iran’s civilian nuclear program.
The lack of a diplomatic track with the US is a problem for President Rouhani, who ran on a pro-diplomacy stance but has struggled to find any US partner to deal with. Since the US withdrew from the nuclear deal, Iranians believe the US can’t be trusted to keep their word.
The US offers talks, but also hypes demands and a “maximum pressure campaign” that convince many Iranians that diplomacy is a dead-end.
Khamenei reiterated his usual opposition to US sanctions, and said that the focus should be on Iranian self-sufficency. He singled out Iran’s energy industry and fighter jet development as proof that the nation can build things domestically.
Historically Iran would be importing a lot of equipment and arms. US sanctions and the UN embargo have made that all but impossible. The arms embargo will expire soon, but in the meantime Iran has gotten self-sufficient in military production.
No talks with US…No halt on nuclear program…Only if it sinks in US brain…!
Obama promised us Iran would never be allowed to have a nuclear bomb . Trump also says Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear bomb , Israel also says Iran will never get a nuclear bomb . So why doesn’t Iran stop working nuclear energy ?
Don’t believe a single word of any politicians on surface…Iran doesn’t have to justify its international right of having peaceful only nuclear program to any country whatsoever…!
you are aware that none other than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld tried to sell Iran, Nuclear Power reactors. Are you also aware that Iran gave the French billions of dollars to build both enrichment and Plutonium refining plants in FRANCE and Nuclear Power reactors in Iran, effectively only having the Power component of the reactor in Iran, however the US pressured France to stop building the Power reactors, and not to pay for the Enriching plant and the Plutonium refining plants that Iran had paid for, the deal was Iran would pay for the building of the system and they would not have to pay any more for the enrichment and the return of the Plutonium waste to France. Iran only started their own processes because France failed to uphold the agreed contracts, that the US pressured France into not upholding! Iran originally did not want to process Uranium, the US in its stupidity forced it to! The only reactor in Iran before that was the US built reactor for medical isotopes which required a higher than three percent uranium enrichment protocol!
Besides, Iran signed the NPT in 1968, ratified it in 1970. Under the NPT they can enrich uranium for peaceful (electric power) purposes. The IAIEA has been inspecting the facilities and have found nothing.
Only five have not signed; India, Pakistan, South Sudan, North Korea, and…………drum roll…….Israel.
Having nuclear energy is not the same as having nuclear weapons.
(Whoops, Traiano beat me to that…)
They’re not building nuclear weapons. Why can’t they have a civilian nuclear program when any other country that wants one can have one?
When the US can make a treaty one month and then break the treaty the next at the whim of the next US President to come along, WHY BOTHER, making a treaty with them at all! North Korea found out the hard way, they made an agreement with Clinton only to have the agreement overturned by Bush at the instigation of Bolton. Iran made a treaty with the US and others, and Trump later pulled out, thinking he had the right to still dictate terms as well!
And beyond all, there’s the cautionary tale of Qaddafi.
“Treaties” require senate approval the JCPOA was never ratified by the senate.
Back in 2015, there were loud calls — not least from senators —
for President Barack Obama to ask the Senate to ratify the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, calling it a “treaty.”
Instead, 0bama chose to enter into an executive agreement.
Which can be more easily undone by the next president.
That’s probably because the Senate was and still is led by the hugely partisan Mitch McConnell, who on multiple occasions stated his intent was to make Obama a 1 term president, to fight against any and all Obama initiatives. He refused to even hold hearings on Obama’s Supreme Court nomination for a full year, handing that nomination to Trump, and that’s also why the ACA, aka “Obamacare” is more of a Heritage Foundation-penned insurance industry subsidy than a comprehensive health care plan – it had to be, so it could (barely) pass the Senate, even with mass amounts of healthcare lobbying. McConnell never, ever, ever would have allowed the JCPOA to come to a Senate vote unless he was absolutely sure it would be crushed. Don’t forget, the GOP painted this agreement as Obama caving completely to the Iranians, that it would put them on track to building a nuke. Which is 100% wrong, but that’s how the right-wing echo chamber works, especially when the echos involve Hillary, Obama, or Soros.
None of which addresses my point.
Regardless of whatever “reasons”,
the JCPOA was never a treaty.
It however was a UN security council Authorized resolution, it was ratified under the Security Council I suggest you go look that up. the US had to go to the UN Security council to pull out which they did not! The US actions were therefor and still are illegal! The US has broken a UN Security council resolution!
Pffft!
The agreement had an opt out clause and
was nothing more than ANOTHER 0bama EO.
Had 0bama done the necessary hard work, as in DEAL with the other side, it would have become a formal treaty, but he didn’t.
double Pfffft, the US sanctions that existed prior to the agreement were UN security council mandated sanctions, once the UN security council rescinded those sanctions, it was not lawful for the US to return them! Which is why the other five nations involved have done all they can to stop the US from enforcing them. The US has become a rogue state forcing its decisions on the world or else. No better than what the US claims China is doing in Hong Kong, or Russia is doing in Crimea.
Thank you.
IT WAS WORKING AND THE EU WAS HUGELY IN FAVOR OF IT. So now, we have nothing. Trump also walked out of the INF Treaty with Russia, the result being is we and Russia are testing the rockets that were banned by that treaty.
At the next Trump rally, wave so I can see you.
Again, all of that has nothing to do with my point.
There never was a formal treaty, that is the point.
0bama would not negotiate or deal to craft a treaty.
He thought he could force it into existence by getting the SC Council on board and rigging the next election.
He was mistaken.
Semantics.
Well it’s interesting that all the other signatories to the agreement thought it was a treaty. And that was the UK, Russia, France, China, Germany, and the EU.
For them it was.
For the US, if the senate does not sign off, it wasn’t.
UN resolutions don’t need to be ratified by the senate. The JCPOA was a UN resolution(2231). Thomas Knapp has pointed this out to you on countless occasions. Pay attention.
True, but to think a president can obligate this country through an EO with the UN in perpetuity is absurd. That’s why it was so easy to dismiss. The president cannot accomplish that type of commitment on his own. Besides, as I have pointed out repeatedly there is an exit clause contained in the resolution.
This is just beating a dead horse.
Obama was never going to get an Iran deal thru the gop senate. He did what he could to ease war tensions. Guess some people didn’t like that.
0bama never tried to deal.
He was lazy and believed he could do everything he wanted
with his “pen and phone” and then fix the next election so his successor would insure it stuck.
But oops, it didn’t.
Of course Obama dealed, in order to get New Start ratified, he promised to sign the gop nuclear modernization bill. Then the right blamed that bill on him.
He wasn’t going to get anything through Mitch McConnell and his Senate. Period.
Sure, if beating a dead horse is truth. Thomas Knapp already explained this to you. Again, pay attention.
I actually explained it to him. The “leader” of a constitutional republic simply doesn’t not have the authority, on his own, to obligate the country to a treaty. It REQUIRES ratification by the representatives of the people in the senate.
But 0bama should hoodwinked a lot of you to “think” so.
At that time the Republic-controlled Senate was doing everything it could to block anything Obama wanted done.
Happens all the time. Nobody said it was easy.
If Biden wins its likely he will rejoin the nuclear deal or at least push or talks about doing so
Hopefully he appoints advisors more from the progressive wing and less from the Third-Way interventionist wing, but my hopes aren’t great.
Of course the USA can’t be trusted to keep agreements, deals, treaties etc(just ask the Native Americans), in place. I saw this coming as the JCPOA(Iran nuke deal) was shaping up in the Obama admin. Now that Trump & co has shredded this deal along with the INF(nuke deal with the Soviets), we are poised for a massive war if the chips are disturbed by any number of reasons. And then there’s the pandemic to raise the temperature of the pot a few degrees also. May cooler heads prevail.
Good for Iran. They probably know more than anyone else that the United States cannot be trusted.
amerikan liberals have always been the most fascist war mongers—although many US conservatives r nearly as fascist….obama and sanders the worst in recent history
Wow. That’s saying a lot since W got us into two major conflicts. Obama looks like Mother Theresa in comparison. And I don’t recall Sanders being responsible for any of our conflicts in recent history.
The U.S. inists that Iran doesn’t enrichment because they can import enriched uranium but we have just shown that we are willing to block all of Iran’s imports and exports at will.
He’s absolutely right – the US cannot be trusted to keep their word, as they have proven many many times.