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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:18 AM Oct 2017

Kerry warns US could 'isolate itself' by leaving Iran deal

By Michael Levenson GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 12, 2017

Disavowing the Iran nuclear deal would destabilize the region and isolate the United States, former secretary of state John F. Kerry warned Thursday, a day before President Trump may decertify the agreement that Kerry negotiated in 2015.

“It is reckless, it is dangerous, it is irresponsible for the United States of America — the proponent of this agreement, the chief negotiator of this agreement — to turn around under a new president and say, ‘I don’t like it,’ ” Kerry told attendees at HUBweek, an innovation-themed festival cosponsored by local institutions and businesses, among them The Boston Globe. In his talk, Kerry also blasted the Trump administration for withdrawing from the Paris climate accord that he helped negotiate.

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At points, the 73-year-old former Democratic nominee for president sounded like the candidate who once barnstormed the country, as he gave long, animated answers, and lamented the plight of Americans “working harder and making less.” But his strongest comments came in defense of the Iran deal, which he spent two years negotiating with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif before it was signed by Iran and six other nations.

Kerry warned that backing away from the accord would hasten the potential for conflict with Iran and move the Middle East “in a less stable direction.”

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Kerry warns US could 'isolate itself' by leaving Iran deal (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
tRump doesn't know crap bdamomma Oct 2017 #1
And that's what Putin and the Chinese want... TheDebbieDee Oct 2017 #2
Make the US the next NK? Freethinker65 Oct 2017 #3
I sometimes picture Trump and Kim Jong... Dave Starsky Oct 2017 #5
"potential for conflict with Iran" moondust Oct 2017 #4

bdamomma

(63,799 posts)
1. tRump doesn't know crap
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:22 AM
Oct 2017

about anything. He wants unrest in the rest of world you don't destabilize places like Iran and NK.

Senator Kerry worked tirelessly for that Iran agreement and it's working, leave it the hell alone.

Freethinker65

(9,999 posts)
3. Make the US the next NK?
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 08:29 AM
Oct 2017

Isolate us by killing the free press, get rid of worker rights and healthcare (especially healthcare for women), deny science, demand allegiance to the flag and leader, full military parades/propaganda, privatize public resources, decrease public school funding and higher education...
And build a wall to keep the people in

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
5. I sometimes picture Trump and Kim Jong...
Fri Oct 13, 2017, 11:51 AM
Oct 2017

Kickin' back together in a back room at Mar-a-Lago, smoking Cubans, drinking Paradis Imperial brandy, and laughing their fucking heads off.

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