Trump Administration officials have been saying this for weeks, but on Friday reiterated their intentions to try to enforce a UN Security Council resolution that includes broad sanctions against Iran. Officials say they expect every nation to comply.
The glaring problem with this is that the resolution doesn’t exist, at least not as an active resolution the US wants. The P5+1 nuclear deal gave the US the authority to reimpose sanctions on Iran, but the US had withdrawn from that pact years ago. Though the Trump Administration argued that didn’t matter, the UN has virtually unanimously rejected their interpretation, and rejected the UN Security Council resolution. The US believes the resolution becomes active Sunday, but the reality is it just doesn’t exist legally.
Reality doesn’t seem to matter to the administration in this case, and they say they’re going to enforce the whole thing unilaterally. The problem is that the only nations even nominally on board with this are nations that weren’t trading with Iran in the first place.
China and Russia were already clear they weren’t on board, and now the rest of the permanent UN Security Council members, Britain, France, and Germany, have told the Security Council Friday that there is no legal effect to what the US says, and that they will continue to promise sanctions relief to Iran after September 20.
While this is a vindication to the nuclear deal, and a blow to US intentions, it remains to be seen what this will amount to for the European nations, as they’ve struggled to ensure sanctions relief for Iran in the first place.
Though the US unilateral sanctions have no legal effect in the EU, the US threats have been enough to prevent European banks from financing deals, which has all but precluded anyone from trading with them. Though the EU has promised a clearing house to bypass the banks, it has had little impact, which remains a sore spot for Iran.
The US enforcement starting Sunday is just the tip of the iceberg, as on October 18 the Iran arms embargo will expire, and the US has vowed to enforce that too as though it still exists. Russian and Chinese arms companies are expected to open up sales to Iran shortly after that date, despite US threats.
The American bombast goes on. Not only is the American stand on Iran look foolish it is holding America to becoming the laughing stock of the world. Enough is enough. Come down to earth we are a civilised people and should act like civilised people.
No, Americans are not a civilized people and never were. Civilized people do not go on a nonstop spree of genociding, enslaving, bombing/occupying, and overthrowing governments.
Yet, America attracts more immigrants than any other country,
just like you CHOSE to immigrated to America?
Explain that.
Expecting a small share of the plunder.
That would make him part of what he condemns.
So it is.
Exactly, my point.
Doesn’t change anything he said. People coming here seeking a better life doesn’t change how we behave towards the rest of the world.
It demonstrates his virtue-signalling hypocrisy and
outs the lie in his total condemnation of everything America.
Anyone can disagree with US policy, but his comprehensive revulsion and disdain is a case of “doth protest too much”.
And I find it hilarious.
No it doesn’t. It demonstrates that you can’t figure out that people can complain about their government’s actions while still wanting to live here. The two aren’t mutually exclusive and the level of complaining is irrelevant. That’s just you grasping.
Sure it does,
you just can’t handle the truth.
He is a wannabe whiner
who identifies with the rest of the whiners,
he just had to IMMIGRATE first before he could, LOLOLO!!!
Self-loathing must be great fun for the deranged.
That’s your argument? Brilliant. Try harder. Maybe “love it or leave it”.
His consummate America hatred,
is trumped by his decision to immigrate!
HYSTERICAL!
I see, same answer. Once more, people can do both love it and bitch about it. And you, or no one else, are the judge on how much bitching is allowed.
Sure they can, and I can highlight that type of hypocritical stench all day long!
Which means you also are a hypocrite. You also bitch. Love it or leave it.
The facts support my position, nothing “hypocritical” about it.
So if the facts support your bitching then it’s alright to bitch? I see. So when you say we should leave Germany or Korea, those are facts? Your opinions are facts? Damn your easy.
No “bitching”, just calling him out for hypocrisy.
He bitches about everything and all the time, that’s bitching.
Opinion is entirely different, it’s focused,
it isn’t universal, comprehensive, 360 degree condemnation, all the time.
You don’t understand because you don’t want to understand.
Besides, I couldn’t care less what your warped interpretation might be.
He gives his opinion. You give your opinion. No difference. You just don’t like his opinion. And then you try to change the definition of what opinion means. Can’t find that word “focused” anywhere in its definition. You do understand that his “360 degree condemnation” is just his OPINION don’t you? Try again.
Pathetic, he trashes everything about the country he adopts???
If you can’t see the laughable hypocrisy in that,
I won’t bother to spell it out.
Back to square one. Indeed pathetic.
Like a bunch of old spinsters,
one upping each other about how bad literally everything is.
Mindless.
While you long for the neocon wetdream.
while many despise amerikans as studies demonstrate in all nations–I pity you
“the banality of amerika; the radical absence of culture”. Jean Baudrilliard
finally u are correct—Lasch and Sennet described u amerikans as self loathing inner directed narcissists in the 1970’s—now an epidemic
Virtues. In America?. We watch every day. And we watch the most virtuous man, Trump, how he is leading America. And now see another virtuous man, Biden,possible replacement of virtuous Trump..One gropes from women front, while the other from behind
If these same people received free stuff in their native land, they’d stay right where they are.
True, he must like free stuff, over integrity.
Wild fire, cyclone,floods America is being ravaged by nature. Then this corona mismanged . Mounting debt 26 trillion growing irreversibly which is devouring the nation. Plus blessed leaders like Trump or Biden.And the Zionist strangulation of every thing that is American. America is going into nether world. All these fortune seekers who crowded in to America will be trying to catch the flight back
No, they won’t,
but it would be great if they did.
They will. Only after you, who have been sucking off all the blood of America all these years, have left
They come to America not for its civilized conduct. they come for the opportunities to make a comfortable living. Who cares for civlisation or morality when they have a good living.
Yes, they come for opportunities here
that they cannot find anywhere else.
Hum, is that “exceptional”?
So it’s comical when they beach
about the country THEY choose from all the other choices!
Nothing is comical. When the opportunities vanishes they will go back. But you Zionists will be the first to ditch and leave.America because you smell the right time earlier than these ordinary fortune seekers.
You are comical doc.
For a Zionist every one may be comical.Can’t help
utter lies stupidity and insecure putrefaction as Heidegger described Americanism….far more immigrants relocate to Russia, China, Europe then the USA—u have all derived from the lowest most incompetent classes from other societies—more comical is your racism—typical self uglified murikan
Navalny says you’re a liar.
Shouldn’t confuse wealth with civilised values. Lots of people immigrate to the United Arab Emirates. They have absolutely no civil or political rights there. But they’re paid, so they go there.
I’m not professing “civilized values” only the fact that more immigrants chose the US over other choices.
When it comes to money, all men follow the same religion
Yeah, well the fact remains, most men want to come to the US.
No, they don’t. There are 7.4 billion non Americans in the world. 3-4 hundred thousand apply for a green card each year. That means one in every 14 thousand people want to go to the US. That’s not most people.
Geez, how thick can you get?
No other country attracts as many people as the US.
The “anyone who comes here and then bitches about anything is a hypocrite” routine isn’t just the worst of your several bad arguments. It’s also the most boring.
It’s not an “argument”, just an amusing observation.
Well, the USA has the world’s 4th largest population. Per capita, it does not have the highest number of immigrants however. The UAE has about 85% of its population from other countries. I think it has attracted people more than the USA.
Per capita isn’t what I said, more people than any other country.
Looking around online, there are surveys that day bigger numbers than what I’ve just quoted, that 750 million would immigrate to the USA if they could. That’s about 11% of non Americans. That’s a lot of people, but it’s not most people. Not by quite a stretch.
I suspect a lot of Americans who can’t afford healthcare, if they could, would emigrate to Europe for the free healthcare and better employment rights.
At the same time these US puppets support and carry out US lawless policy around the world, from invasions, wars, air strikes and occupations, to color revolutions, assassinations, regime changes and sanctions.
This disagreement is pure theater, the 3 puppets have not fulfilled the agreement either.
I disagree, I think these western countries are all oligarchies, but different sets of oligarchs have power in each country, so there is genuine conflict and disagreement in their plans.
Watch Britain, France and Germany cave after a few weeks of US pressure. They’ll cave, just like they did on the original Iran deal, 5G, Nord Stream 2, and the Mistral.
May be for this time. Not sure. But there will breaking point.Signs are there