Trump administration pledges great strictness on Iran nuclear deal

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



07 MAR 2017 AT 13:47 ET

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration pledged on Tuesday to show “great strictness” over restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities imposed by a deal with major powers, but gave little indication of what that might mean for the agreement.

The 2015 deal between Iran and six major powers restricts Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Trump has called the agreement “the worst deal ever negotiated”. His administration is now carrying out a review of the accord which could take months, but it has said little about where it stands on specific issues.

The Trump administration also gave few clues about any potential policy shift on Tuesday in a statement to a quarterly meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s Board of Governors.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-administration-pledges-great-strictness-on-iran-nuclear-deal/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. You know you want to, Donald. GO ahead, nuke em, you know you are gonna do it anyway.

Now I dont want that, of course. But if we keep arguing about healthcare and racism and all the things this dictator wants to do to us and we dont focus on those nukes, there's gonna be trouble.

I am pretty sure on election day all of our benefits, social insurance programs, were taken from us. I am pretty sure on election day it became your patriotic duty to hate and discriminate against all non white male Christians.

So, knowing that, I want to focus on life itself. I truly believe he will use a nuke or at a minimum will invade somebody soon to take the heat off of his treason.

[Botany]

2. In other words Trump is gonna keep "the worst deal ever negotiated."

2 points .... the deal John Kerry and Ernie Moniz helped to get done is
a very good deal and it will keep Iran from building a bomb.


btw if Sec. of Energy Ernie Moniz is not the best in the world understanding
and getting a good deal for nuclear weapons control then the list of people
who are as good or better is pretty damn short. Moniz = B.S. Physics Boston College,
PhD Physics Stanford U, Professor of Physics MIT, taught nuclear physics @ MIT,
Chair of the Dept. of Physics MIT, and 25 + years of working in the field nuclear
non-proliferation.


And according to the reports in the New Yorker and on Rachel Maddow
Trump and his team have been laundering money used by the Revolutionary
Guard in Iran @ a Trump property in Azerbaijan.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028759416

[karynnj]

6. Exactly -- Moniz to Perry is likely the greatest shift in intelligence in any cabinet position ever

and John Kerry has more diplomatic skill and integrity in every strand of hair on his head than Tillerson has in his own whole body. Not to mention, he seems to have been almost not present since he took office.

[Botany]

7. And in the end Trump is gonna keep "the worst deal in history."

Sadly to >80% of the rubes in Trumpland will think Trump got a better deal.

The first line in the 6 nation deal w/Iran is something like, "Iran will never
build a nuclear weapon."

Kerry was very important in helping to get the deal moving forward too.
Kerry was on of the best Sec. of States we have ever had because he
understood diplomacy and keeping things out of the press.

[karynnj]

8. Everyone involved in that deal said it would not have happened without Kerry

The analogy I liked best was the British Foreign Minister involved who said he called it "airplane diplomacy". He explained that at the end of each meeting - no matter how unsuccessful, Kerry always suggested something different and setting the next meeting. Philip Hammond explaimed that like a plane, the important thing was to continue moving -- to stay in the air - never letting it fall.

That and his bringing in his friend Moniz as an equal.

I think that between the Iran deal, that Trump's incompetents could never have made - much less improve, and the various climate deals, including Paris, the expansion of the Montreal protocol and others, Kerry IS the best Secretary of State we have had since George Marshall.

(Yes, there are things he failed at - that might have had NO solution -- but note that Kissinger is not faulted for causing the Vietnam war to continue from 1968 to 1973 - to get the same terms Johnson had in 1968! Not to mention - Chili. Baker was instrumental in the start of the first Gulf War -- I think that years from now, that will be seen as the start of the entire Gulf War/Iraq/ISIS etc. (Not to mention, the Bush 1 coalition for which Baker and Bush get credit is not a better effort than the 60 some countries fighting ISIS, deconflicting with Russia, Iran and Syria. )

I like that he has been given two very prestigious new jobs - being a visiting statesman for the Carnegie Institute of International Peace and a new Yale program where there will be Kerry teaching a seminar, Kerry fellows doing research, and Kerry conversations with international leaders - on environmental issues and conflict resolution.

[turbinetree]

3. Hey dumpster what is your answer to this revelation that "you" did:

And want to do exactly what with Iran, apparently you and your gang already has, look

[matt819]

4. Great strictness - as compared to what, you moron

The deal is the deal is the deal. It has conditions. The Iranians will try to evade them. The six major powers will do their best to ensure that all conditions are met. There's no such thing as "great strictness," any more than there is something called extreme vetting. There are rules. They will be followed.

See also, The Vienna Convention and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades. The bad guys try to circumvent; the good guys try to stop them. It has always been thus. And no amount of blustering will change anything.

Oh, and did I already say this? You moron.

[Thunderbeast]

5. Putin NEEDS sanction to be re-imposed on Iran

Putin's (and thereby Trump's) organizing principle is that oil MUST be priced at higher levels.

Russia's reserves are not economically viable at the current world market price. As Iran adds it's production to the market, Russia will have to keep their oil in the ground.

Russia also needs patented technology from (wait for it) ExxonMobil to reach their oil economically.

Russia is a gas station with an economy the size of Italy......oh...and they have thousands of nuclear warheads.

It sure is handy to have their lap dog in the White House, and a VERY interested party at State.