The European signatories to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal released a statement on Friday accusing Iran of “undermining” the opportunity for diplomacy by increasing its nuclear activity, even though the US has yet to engage with Iran and is the party that violated the deal.
“In escalating its non-compliance, Iran is undermining the opportunity for renewed diplomacy to fully realize the objectives of the JCPOA,” France, Germany, and the UK said in a joint statement.
After the Trump administration withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 by reimposing sanctions on Iran, Tehran waited a year for the European signatories to offset sanctions. Throughout that first year, Iran voluntarily stayed within the limits of the JCPOA even though US sanctions released Iran of its obligations.
Since then, Iran has been gradually increasing uranium enrichment and its stockpile of low-enriched uranium. The latest move the European countries take issue with is the production of uranium metal. “We reiterate that Iran has no credible civilian justification for these activities, which are a key step in the development of a nuclear weapon,” the statement said.
But according to the IAEA, Iran confirmed that it is studying uranium metal so it can produce fuel rods for its Tehran Research Reactor (TRR), a nuclear facility built by the US in the 1960s that can create medical isotopes. To create fuel rods for the TRR, Iran needs uranium metal, and that uranium needs to be enriched at 20 percent, something Iran recently began doing.
The 20 percent enrichment is the highest level Iran has ever attempted and is still vastly lower than the 90 percent needed for weapons-grade uranium. Despite the reality and the US pressure that caused Iran to step up its nuclear activity, the Europeans still put the blame on Iran.
While Iran has been increasing the activity of its civilian nuclear program, Iranian officials have been clear that they are willing to scale it back if the US lifts sanctions. But the Biden administration seems to be in no hurry to lift the crippling economic sanctions left in place by the Trump administration and has yet to engage in dialogue with Tehran.
Two faced dishonest cowards. If they’d wanted to they could have stood up to Trump and rendrerd his withdrawal impotent but they didnt.
Mr. Nichols:
Your conditional claim, “… If they’d wanted to(sic) they could have stood up to Trump …” lacks an appreciation of or an understanding of the United States’ (world!) banking system and the U. S. Treasury Note as the reserve currency.
The United States government told the E.U. Countries (our vassal States) that if they were to continue to do business with Iran after our [d]emocratic, Constitutional, Republic withdrew the “Agreement” then the E.U. Countries and all other sovereign States would be excluded from and sanctioned by the United States and its financial institutions.
Accordingly, the E.U. Countries and just about all other independent countries did stop doing business with Iran, at least directly.
I suggest it is not what is legal, ethnical, humanitarian or anything other than the power of capital that controls countries, politicians and the common man (woman).
Please do not misunderstand. I have not voted for a Democrat or Republican since Nixon v. McGovern, and I didn’t vote for Nixon.
I am not an optimist or a pessimist; I am, however, a realist.
People’s actions are not always controlled by money, merely the overwhelming number of times.
The God of money is the most powerful of all the gods. But, yes, there other minor deities.
Sometimes people do not want to hear the truth because they do not want their illusions destroyed.
dennis hanna
Even so, they don’t have to keep bashing Iran. They may be puppets of the empire but they don’t have to keep proving it.
Trump undermined diplomacy when he pulled out of the JCPOA, now the US insists on Iran making all the first moves
Just adding to the idiots(Blinken/Biden)who pretend that Iran isn’t “escalating its non-compliance” because the other signatories didn’t honor the deal. They have continuously made their reasons known along with telling anyone that would listen that they would return to compliance immediately when the other signatories honor their part of the deal.
In the end its going to be the song that Sen. John McCain used to sing” Bomb Bomb
Bomb Iran, Bomb Bomb, Bomb Iran, oh yea oh yea, because Iran will never stop building the Bomb so they can bully everybody in the middle east.
If you’re going to quote the dead McCain’s sick rendition of “Barbara Ann” at least get his lyrics right.
Ba-Ba-BA Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann
Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran
Barbara Ann
Take my hand
Barbara Ann Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran
You got me rockin’ and a-rollin’
Rockin’ and a reelin’
Barbara Ann
Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran
In blessed memory of a great American, an American warrior for democracy, Sen. John McCain, I rephrase this old Beach Boy song as he did.
The EU satraps, who revealed their irrelevance when they did not even attempt to override the extraterritorial US sanctions and thereby made the nuclear deal pointless, bleat that Iran is not conforming to the deal? What deal? Until and unless the US is back onside, there is no deal.
Well, eight days left.
The “EU Powers” no longer really have the capacity for meaningful speech.
Here is what was reported by the Islamic Republic News Agency on February 11, 2021:
Zarif to Biden administration: Stick to your commitments
You wonder what the fools like Blinken, Biden & Nod say to each other when they read that. It’s really not that hard to understand even when you’re past your expiration date.
Blinken will say to his crew of Zionists: “Joe Biden has vowed to quickly restore the Iran nuclear deal, so let’s get ‘er done!”. . ./s
“They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount ZION, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.”
Bible (Old Testament)
— ORDPsalms125:1.
Now that the Senate has acquitted Trump, perhaps they can get down to business.
Hopefully not. The more time they spend on harmless distractions, the less time they have to f–k things up for real.
Yes, it was just a distraction. It was useful as partisan politics and it sold media.
But if anything they do only makes things worse, then what we have now is as good as things can possibly be.
I can’t accept that. I also don’t see anybody in power I like or trust, but still I can’t accept that this is as good as things can get.
European powers? This must be just a habit — carryover from 19th century. In twentieth century “European powers” went into WWI, hoping beyond hope that their debts would disappear, and somebody would pay for it all. Somebody turned out to be the whole continent, and WWII was a violent finale. American Empire replaced British, and it has exhausted itself in 100 years.
European powers are not in the top five countries by PPP — purchasing price parity. The only comparison that matters. Top five are China, US, Japan, India and Russia. US after pandemic may be in real jeopardy.
European powers, the very past tense.
Yes, and the US engineered the transfer of power, and the world financial center, from Britain to the US. It was done by design, as the US continues to weaken Europe. Now it’s payback time, with China in increasing control financially and militarily. Plus China may formally ally with Russia soon, doubling up.
Such bravado from such cowards.
Considering Western “diplomacy” includes starving people out, that’s a bit rich.
But it’s only done against countries with poor human rights…../s
I’m guessing that this letter was written by Blinken’s Zionist crowd in Washington and sent to the E-3 for signatures. . .”Sign it or else.”
That’s just what you do when you’re the leader of the free world, AKA rules-based international order, full-spectrum dominance.
Glad to hear that still hate the Zionist movement for a Jewish Homeland in Israel, because if you dints’, it would scare the heck out of me wondering what dastardly thing you were up to.””If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my utmost joy”
Ps137:5-6
Those dangerous Persians ‘undermining’ diplomacy have met their match —
Amphibious warship USS Makin Island (LHD-8), its Amphibious Ready Group and elements of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit transited the Strait of Hormuz and is now in the Persian Gulf, according to U.S. 5th Fleet.
–nice target, is all–…Grow up, stupid Pentagon…
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They’re kissing the asses of the US foreign policy establishment.
One Iranian official just recently said that if the deal fails, and hostility continues, then Iran will be forced to change its policy and obtain nuclear weapons.
Even the hint is a game changer. It should have sent shock waves through the debate.
It did not. Nothing. It dropped into a void.
Iran’s official world did not rebuke the statement nor deny it, either. Silence there too.
From this we can draw conclusions. The US is accepting Iran will go nuclear. It knows it is forcing that.
Why? Is it to attack? Is it finally to stop Israel from attacking? Something else?
Mark, I think you already know the answer to your question, Why?
No matter what Iran does in order to save the JCPOA, the USA has decided long ago to go to war with the Islamic Republic.
Realize that no matter what Americans want, when our beloved PM speaks we must OBEY.
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The US revels in an unstable world, with ongoing “raised tensions” that provide a need for a military budget equal to the rest of the world. So there is no motivation to finally do anything, just to keep the pot stirred and the budget fully funded for a half-million person ground force, along with naval and air forces with all the expensive gear they require, plus a pile of money for Overseas Contingency Operations, AKA non-stop war.
Continuing instability, that’s the ticket. So don’t end the Korean war, or pull the troops out of Germany and Japan. Continue to falsely brand Iran as the greatest state sponsor of terrorism. Oh, and bad human rights (pot/kettle). Welcome to the American Security State, where the pot is always on the fire.
Never fight a land war in Asia. Nobody is sure who said that, but everyone is sure it is true.
Let me add that a half million man army is tiny in Asia. The deployable portion would disappear into an Asian land war with scarcely a ripple.
The US Army was only too aware during the Cold War that its army in Europe was a tripwire, not a fighting force, even twice the size of today and even in the much smaller numbers of Europe. Novelized European war scenarios always ended in unlikely last second saves from total inevitable disaster.
Add to that the millions of true Asian armies, and it becomes absurd. It reminds me of a Tom Clancy novel that had a single US Regiment of a few thousand men heroically deciding the outcome of a war between Russia and China — such a farce even Clancy couldn’t sell it.
The US defense industry does want all that money. It also must know that money does not buy an ability to win any actual land war in Asia. It does not even begin to buy such numbers.
In all of this Iran comes out as the good guy .
..in five days. . .tick, tock. . .
There is one candidate for Iran’s presidency in June, General Hossein Dehghan, a military adviser to Iran’s leader. In a recent interview here with The Guardian, Dehghan insisted that the Islamic Republic of Iran would seek to change the course of diplomacy from 19 February – the date it has set to reduce some access for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to its nuclear sites. He also said Iran would demand damages from the U.S. for the impact of sanctions. Dehghan believes Joe Biden is continuing Donald Trump’s foreign policies and noted, “Tehran is preparing retaliatory measures to force the U.S. to change its diplomatic trajectory.”