In comments Saturday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on President-elect Joe Biden to return to fulfilling commitments under the P5+1 nuclear deal, saying Iran would continue its resistance to the US until they return to the deal.
There have been indications that Biden wants to return the US to the deal, though some other top Democrats suggested that the US intends to want to impose another tougher deal on Iran. It’s not clear that Iran is going to be interested in that.
Rouhani says he wants those nations sanctioning Iran to recognize their method has failed and try a new approach. That might include talks, but it’s key for the US to suggest that they really are looking for a break from the old strategy.
With the defeat of Trump, FM Javad Zarif is urging all of Iran’s neighbors to cooperate, saying they could come together on their common interests going forward. There is no word any of them has accepted this overture yet, but the election is still being processed by many, and nations will likely come through with reactions in the weeks to come.
Trump’s demand that the world reflect his own hostile stance on Iran clearly did fail, and the rest of the world will be looking for a new approach with or without the US. With Biden, the chances are that diplomacy is a realistic option.
the deal was never ratified by US congress so US never implemented anything; trump withdrew from something never agreed to by the duplicitous amerikans
As a United Nations Security Council Resolution, the deal is binding on all UN member states. And since the US is a member of the UN by treaty, that makes it part of the “supreme law of the land.”
A president, in this case 0bama,
cannot independently commit the nation to a “binding” treaty on their own.
Without the senate’s ratification,
US participation was a fiction disguised as a treaty by the administration
while that truth was willfully ignored by the UN for diplomatic window dressing.
That is why Trump could easily walk out on it,
it never really existed.
The people who were against the JCPOA were the very people who were responsible for the invasion of Iraq – John Bolton, Dick Cheney and the rest of the chickenhawks. Walking away from the nuclear deal, immediately made the region a more dangerous place.
“A president, in this case 0bama, cannot independently commit the nation to a ‘binding’ treaty on their own.”
True. But Obama was not president on July 28, 1945 when the US Senate ratified the United Nations Charter.
Under which UN Security Council resolutions are binding on all member states.
The UN Charter was ratified, true.
However, 0bama signing a UN SC resolution (without senate ratification) does not have the authority to bind the nation.
He signed on, it was nothing but his signature.
And the UN full well knew it, yet played along.
It was a fraud.
And now it’s gone.
The UN Charter, duly ratified by the US Senate in 1945, binds all member states to UN Security Council resolutions, full stop.
Obama didn’t have to “sign” the resolution for it to be binding on the US government per the Supreme Law of the Land.
That’s a fact.
You don’t have to like it. It’s a fact whether you like it or not.
In a constitutional republic
the president is NOT the state.
The president MUST act together with the senate to enter a binding treaty.
The president is no monarch, the senate as representative of the people, must be involved or it’s just a piece of paper, which it was.
“The president MUST act together with the senate to enter a binding treaty.”
Exactly.
Which President Truman did, in 1945.
Since which time the US has been bound by treaty (the UN Charter) to abide by UN Security Council resolutions.
The JCPOA is a UN Security Council resolution. According to “the Supreme Law of the Land,” the US is therefore bound by it. Period.
The president isn’t the nation,
without the senate, he is nothing. He cannot commit for the nation alone.
No other president, since Truman, has tried this deception.
All previous UN treaty Resolutions have had senate approval.
“All previous UN treaty Resolutions have had senate approval.”
I’m not sure what a “UN treaty Resolution” is.
The JCPOA is a UN Security Council resolution. President Truman proposed, and the US Senate ratified, the UN Charter in 1945.
The UN Charter is a treaty, and therefore part of the “Supreme Law of the Land,” and one of its provisions is that UN Security Council resolutions are binding on all UN member states.
Not only did Obama not “commit for the nation alone,” he wasn’t even born when Truman and the US Senate committed the US to the JCPOA.
Show me another US treaty
where the senate did not ratify, like was done with the JCPOA.
Or concede.
The JCPOA is not a US treaty.
The JCPOA is a UN Security Council resolution.
Which the US is bound by, because president Truman proposed, and the US Senate ratified, the UN Charter as a treaty.
Those are the facts. No amount of dodging them will cause them to stop being the facts.
Huh, according to this we are both wrong.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/state-department-affirms-iran-deal-only-political-commitment
Thanks for the workout.
UN? USA frequently violates international law and convention, ignores ICC and has always violated treaties—bombed Serbia illegally, invaded Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan illegally and remains in these nations amongst many despite opposition by national peoples
“A president, in this case 0bama,
cannot independently commit the nation to a “binding” treaty on their own.”
He didn’t. And you actually replied to this:
“As a United Nations Security Council Resolution, the deal is binding on all UN member states. And since the US is a member of the UN by treaty, that makes it part of the “supreme law of the land.”
A president, by himself, does not have authority to enter treaties without senate ratification. 0bama and the UN SC knew that.
But because they also knew they couldn’t get senate ratification,
they hatched this diplomatic stunt to fool their “useful idiots”.
doesn’t matter, because Trump is going to retain office.