In his weekly speech on the state media, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized the new US sanctions imposed yesterday against his country, saying that the Iranian parliament will have an appropriate reciprocal action, and that Iran will “stand up” to the United States.
Rouhani was light on specifics about what Iran would do to retaliate over the sanctions. Other officials had suggested Iran might withdraw from the P5+1 deal, but Rouhani says that Iran remains committed to the pact irrespective of the US actions.
Iranian officials broadly consider the new sanctions a violation of the P5+1 deal, since they target Iran for a UN resolution on testing nuclear-capable missiles, and the P5+1 deal Iran is complying with precludes them having any such warheads for their missiles in the first place.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guyard issued their own statement on the matter saying that the US shouldn’t impose any sanctions against Iran’s defensive operations unless they first moved all American bases 1,000 km away from the Iranian coast. This is being interpreted as a threat by some, but might also reflect the reality that the US military presence near Iran, and constant US threats to attack, are a big reason Iran is trying to improve their retaliatory capability in the first place.
Washington hawks want a fight with Iran so bad they can taste it. (As if they were going to be doing the fighting and dying themselves, of course.) I give HUGE props to Iran for not taking the bait and making the neocons look like banty hens running around making a bunch of senseless noise. If war does break out with Iran, you can bet your last dollar it’s not going to be their fault.
Washington hawks are having too much success manipulating the Outrage against Trump, and then manipulating Trump to placate the Outrage. We are being gamed, behind the smoke and mirrors of the Trump Show. The wars are more important than the Trump Show, and we had better wake up to what is going on before we are in far worse wars.
“Rouhani was light on specifics about what Iran would do”
That is normal in such things. It would be shocking only if he were more specific.
Iran is gaining great benefit from the deal, because it is a deal with many more than the US, and Iran always did its business with those others anyway. It is back in those businesses to a large extent, and isn’t going to let that go because of US efforts to torpedo it.
We have put sanctions against maybe 1’2 dozen counties freezing their money confiscating their property . Placing military bases all over and issuing new world orders . Telling Russia they are very oppressive because they tuned down gay marriage . Telling China they can’t build Islands in the China sea . You know most states in the USA turned down gay marriage to . It was declared legal in this country only by the supreme court changing the definition of marriage . Why is it our job to tell every body what they can and should not do .? Would it not be better for us to defeat ISIS in the United State and Europe first and than go to the philipeans Trump said he was going to be different but he is sure starting out the same .This looks like NWO policy all over again .