On Wednesday, the US announced a new round of sanctions against Iran, targeting companies for putative supporting of Iran’s conventional ballistic missile program.
Iran was critical of the new sanctions, saying they violate an existing UN resolution on the nuclear deal, and are a “sign of the US government’s malice towards the Iranian people.”
The US has consistently sanctioned Iran’s conventional missile program based on a very nebulous wording of a resolution that bans nuclear-capable missiles, arguing that it forbids any and all missiles that could even be similar to missiles with different capabilities.
The White House insisted that the new sanctions won’t impact the nuclear talks, though they didn’t say why that would be. Moreover, the White House said the sanctions would remain with or without the deal.
US officials say only a small number of outstanding issues remain on the nuclear deal. Earlier this week, Iran suggested the US needs to tone down its unreasonable expectations.
Now we know the JCPOA was just a delay tactic by this administration. At least the last one didn’t pretend
USA copying the experts in deception.
” We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement.Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise position. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism.”
(Yehoshafat Harkabi, chief of Israeli military intelligence from 1955 until 1959 and afterwards a professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2 November 1973)
More proof that Iran is better off not rejoining the deal. Instead, they should enhance their ties with Russia and China, and dump the West, as those countries are doing. The future lies East.