Pompeo declares US un-withdrawn from PARTS of Iran nuclear deal. Because that's how deals work.

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/27/1940753/-Team-Trump-now-plans-to-argue-U-S-didn-t-withdraw-from-Iran-nuclear-deal-after-all-sort-of#read-more

As reported by The New York Times, this techno-legal nevermind is narrowly focused. Very narrowly focused, in fact. By arguing that the United States is still "participating" in the nuclear deal despite an entire administration's worth of public claims that no we absolutely are not, Pompeo will argue that the United States still has the authority to forcibly "snapback" harsher world sanctions on Iran that were lifted after the deal was inked, sanctions that the Trump administration will in turn argue are binding on all United Nations members. Most specifically, the Trump administration will argue that the world must re-impose sanctions prohibiting conventional arms sales to Iran, after the current such ban expires in October.

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The Trump administration has argued that the deal no longer applies, because they say so—but when it comes to the sanctions imposed by the deal, threatened by the deal, or reversed by the deal, Pompeo and team have argued that all of those sanctions should now apply because Reasons. It's only the U.S. obligations that have gone by the wayside; on everything else, the world remains obligated to Do What Donald Says.

[The Magistrate]

1. This Is Nonesense, Sir, Just As Withdrawl Was Nonesense In the First Place

"What a nimrod! What a ultra-maroon!"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. +1

I just can't anymore with these people.

[Voltaire2]

3. we are now the global clown show.

North Korea has lost that vaudeville spot.