Speaking today about the P5+1 nuclear deal, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that he was fully prepared to “set fire” to the P5+1 nuclear deal if the next US president reneged on America’s obligations under the pact.
Telling the state media that Iran “won’t be the first to violate the nuclear deal,” Khamenei said he felt Iran wouldn’t have any obligation to keep complying with the deal if the US was overtly violating it.
Khamenei also told officials at a meeting that problems with getting insurance for Iranian oil tankers to make deliveries abroad had not been resolved, even though the financial sanctions that prevent it were supposed to already have been lifted.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif reiterated calls for the US to publicly encourage banks to do business with Iran, and to assure them the sanctions actually are lifted.
That’s been a problem, as Secretary of State John Kerry has done so in recent weeks, but the US Treasury Department has been a lot more vague about whether the sanctions are lifted or not, and regularly bragged to Congress that they continue to prevent Iran accessing the global banking system.
Or in other words, the US is already reneging on the deal and Iran now needs to counterspin US propaganda to show it.
Of cours that won’t matter anyway because the US is going to reneg on the deal under president Clinton and would if Trump were to become president. The latter need not be a concern.
Obama will soon be gone and there will no longer be anyone in government working to uphold the deal. Nobody but Obama thought it was a good deal anyway. War with Iran was always the preferred way to go.
Obama has always been a tyrant,
a creation of Chicago gangster politics.
Keep a promise when it slows down expansion?
Not in the DNA of Empire USA.