permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Seems trump and pompoi see the sagging approval of trump so serious they are willing to go to war..

Cople of orange mad men who care about nothing else in the world other than themselves..

I see no good ending to this action and the intent behind this..


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/trump-iran-deal-oil-sanctions-chaos.html?fbclid=IwAR2l_VTPHvDFhWJ89T-MMv1wwfZm2BTqvwXe-406vZLBBzHTGPkcnYcHVUw

President Donald Trump is about to squeeze Iran like never before. It’s hard to see where this can lead except to chaos or war. And it’s fairly clear that Trump wants it this way.

When Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed economic sanctions that had been lifted as part of that accord, he issued six-month waivers to eight countries—China, India, Iraq, Turkey, South Korea, Italy, Greece, and Taiwan—allowing them to keep buying Iranian oil. On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the waivers would end May 2. After then, any country doing business with the Islamic Republic would be barred from the U.S. banking system, which dominates financial t***sactions worldwide.

In recent months, some countries, notably China and members of the European Union, have discussed setting up some mechanism to trade with Iran without going through U.S. banks, but this has proved easier said than done. The European countries that were granted waivers have already stopped importing Iranian oil; the others have cut back, albeit reluctantly. After May 2, if Washington really enforces a no-tolerance ban, Iran—which is already hurting economically—will be boxed in.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, have said that, in response to this hostile act, they might block the Strait of Hormuz, a body of water with a two-mile-wide shipping lane that t***sits 20 percent of the world’s oil supply. The idea is that if Iran can’t send its oil through the strait, which borders its territory, nobody else can either. Zarif also has said that Iran might resume enriching uranium—and thus reviving its nuclear program—in response. Either of these moves would likely spark a U.S. military reaction, which may be what Trump wants to happen.

One clear sign that Trump wants Iran boxed in is that he hasn’t offered another choice—he hasn’t said what he wants the Iranian government to do in exchange for dropping his campaign of “maximum pressure.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif likened the Trump administration’s behavior to that of a “gangster.”
Pompeo has said he wants a “better” nuclear accord, but his definition of the word is so over the top that he’s clearly signaling that he doesn’t mean it. In a speech at the Heritage Foundation in May, he laid out 12 conditions that Iran must fulfill for a new deal. They include ending its enrichment of uranium—a ban imposed on no other country in the world. (Article IV of the Non-Proliferation Treaty gives signatories the “inalienable right” to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, which includes enriching uranium at low levels. The Iran deal allows enrichment up to 3 percent—way below what’s needed to make a weapon.) Pompeo also demanded that Iran give international inspectors “unqualified access” to “all sites throughout” Iran—a formula for espionage that no country would accept. He said Iran must halt tests and development of ballistic and cruise missiles (a ban on development is impossible to verify); end support for Syria, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen; disarm its m*****as in Iraq; drop all threats against Israel; and release all foreign prisoners. All these steps would be welcome, but no nation would surrender so much of its sovereignty to a foreign power, except, possibly, after a total defeat in a war.


More drastic still, Pompeo listed these conditions not as the terms of a new deal but merely as the steps that Iran must take before the United States sits down at the bargaining table. What further concessions, they might ask, would Trump and Pompeo demand after that? In any case, the Iranians have no cause to trust them, given that Trump withdrew from the existing deal, which was negotiated with six other countries, even though the International Atomic Energy Agency has attested many times that Iran is in full compliance.

There are ways to get a better deal with Iran, if that’s what Trump really wanted. He could do what Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, the two Bushes, Clinton, and Obama did to get better nuclear arms deals with the Kremlin. They negotiated a series of treaties, each one reducing nuclear weapons to lower levels without tearing up some previous accord just because it didn’t go as far as one side or the other might have preferred.

Liberty Tree

So, renounce your citizenship and move to Iran if you want to support it so much.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

No where did I say I wanted to support Iran..

I do however, want to thin of my nation as lawful and supporting the needs of all our citizens..

Liberty Tree

You will support anything, anybody or believe wh**ever any ELWNJ site says as long as you can use it to bash Trump. Too bad you do not love America as much as you h**e Trump.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

If I did not love America, I would not h**e trump...

Did you read all of my post or only the beginning?

This is not any kind of attempt to correct the actions of a foreign power, It is making demand which can not be met and are not imposed on any other nation in the world..

It is an impossible task and what will be done when Iran does not meet the demands?

trumps needless hate for Iran is not new and is not needed. He seems on a mission for war to drive up his rating as Bush Jr. did..

Liberty Tree

You are driven by h**e for trump. It clouds you judgment on everything. Following your l*****t agenda will destroy the America you claim you love.