With just weeks remaining before President Trump’s May 12 ultimatum to change the Iran nuclear deal, there is little sign major change is coming. This is raising concerns that the president may attempt to blow up the deal outright, as he has long threatened.
Iran is warning against such a move, saying that they are prepared to ‘vigorously‘ resume their enrichment of uranium if the pact collapses. Iran FM Javad Zarif noted that Iran was never seeking a nuclear bomb, but that enrichment to lower levels would probably be stepped up in the fact of the deal falling apart.
That’s unsurprising. Dramatic curbs to enrichment were a big concession made by Iran under the deal, along with giving the IAEA an unprecedented level of access to their nuclear sites. Without the deal, Iran would likely feel obliged to reverse those concessions.
France, Britain, and Germany have been trying to come up with a side deal with the US to salvage the deal. French President Emmanuel Macron urged the US to stay in the pact in comments on Sunday, warning there is no better option, and no “Plan B” available.
Its not clear that Iran promising the U.S. what it wants to happen for a pretext to sanction and attack really helps prolong the nuke deal…
No doubt. They should promise to continue to comply with the deal out of respect of the remaining participating members. That would really piss us off.
What would it get out of “complying”? Everyone knows that European “participating members” (bar Russia) are slaves of America and will ultimately do its bidding.
I was assuming the European partners weren’t going to be able to oblige Trump. I meant if the US was going solo since there is “no plan B”.
Unfortunately, this is EXACTLY what the USA wants.
Plan B is that Israel or Saudi Arabia will bomb anything that looks like a nuclear program in Iran. Eventually Iran or their allies will respond on a scale that the US will call unacceptable aggression. There’s a scenario where Congress might actually declare war on Iran. Europe might not jump on board, but they won’t come to Iran’s defense either. A big mess would ensue, and no one can predict what the region and the world would look like after the dust settles. I hope even the warmongers realize that firepower alone wouldn’t be decisive.
If it should come to this, Russia (and China?) would not stand by. The USA was scornful about Putin’s March 1 speech “boasting”, but Putin does not boast or pretend.
The zionazi pseudostate no longer fights wars against anyone capable of shooting back (like they stopped daring to overfly Syrian territory the moment one of their planes was shot down). Saudi Barbaria can’t even beat Yemen. Neither is capable of even thinking of taking on Iran. Both of them will demand that the Imperialist States of Amerikastan do their fighting for them.
Macron needs to shut up and stop advising and encouraging the SCROTUS in any way. He has done enough harm in “his own” country.
Iran must be completely fed up, and for France, Germany and the Mayhem-stricken UK to want to give in at all to SCROTUS is shameful. Let Trump/USA leave and keep the JCPOA to be fair to Iran, or there will be catastrophic fallout. All the nations now benefit-the USA has no right to ruin an international treaty, as previous POTUS have also done.
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Macron needs to shut up. Full stop.
Iran under the NPT has every right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes. Since the whole so called nuclear deal was *in addition to* and *in contravention of* Iran’s rights under the NPT, Iran should simply withdraw from said NPT. Amerikastan, in any case, has never fulfilled its own obligation to disarm its nuclear weapons under that same NPT.