Iran seeks EU guarantees against Trump's sanctions

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico-Europe


New US sanctions are set to take effect Monday.

By EMMET LIVINGSTONE 11/3/18, 11:45 AM CET Updated 11/3/18, 12:01 PM CET

Iran’s foreign minister called a number of EU leaders, urging them to stand by Tehran as U.S. President Donald Trump levies a raft of damaging sanctions against the country.

Washington announced Friday that it would reinstate all economic sanctions on Iran that had been lifted as a result of the 2015 nuclear deal, one of former Barack Obama’s key foreign policy achievements that saw Tehran freeze its nuclear program in exchange for an easing of financial pressure.

The reinstated sanctions — which target the country’s energy, finance and shipping sectors — come into force Monday.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, called EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Sweden’s Margot Wallström and Denmark’s Anders Samuelsen, according to Iranian state news agency IRNA, to seek their continued support.

Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/mohammad-javad-zarif-donald-trump-iran-seeks-eu-guarantees-against-trumps-sanctions/

[BlueMTexpat]

1. The Orange Farce

and Armchair Warrior PNAC-veteran Bolton = a lethal combination.

[idahoblue]

2. I really to understand something

How can Donald impose sanctions that other nations are required to follow? How is it that he (or any president) can unilaterally demand that independent nations stop doing business with Iran or any other targeted country? Since he is the only one to pull out of the treaty, can’t the rest of the world just tell him to fuck off?

[karynnj]

3. They can, but he is threatening to stop companies that do business with the Iran

from doing business in the US. Europe is trying to protect its countries. The other thing he threatened, but I don't know if he did, is to prevent them from using the SWIFT system that is used for international financial transactions.