Alex Christoforou with Alexander Mercouris on US POTUS Donald Trump’s controversial decision to have the United States pull out of the Iran Nuclear deal.
What does it all mean, and what are the implications for the region and the world going forward.
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Press TV – May 16, 2018 The European Union’s top policy chief has said that she cannot talk about giving Iran guarantees for the economic benefits of the 2015 agreement, but that she can give assurances that the EU will deepen the dialog with Iran and will immediately start work to arrive at practical solutions. […]
Foreign ministers of the European parties to the Joint Comprehensive plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear development, the deal that Trump thinks is the ‘worst deal ever negotiated’ and is determined to kill, got together for a meeting today to recommit to the agreement and put their heads together on how to protect their economic interests against American extraterritorial economic sanctions.
France24 reports:
Just ahead of upcoming peace talks between South Korea, the US, and North Korea, the Republic of Korea and the US conduct military scenario drills rehearsing conflict against the North.
These drills are being perceived by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a provocation. CGTN reports:
There will be a confluence of trigger events this week that could lead to an escalation of conflict. At the same time that the US has reneged on the nuclear agreement and Israeli missiles are attacking Iranians in Syria, the US embassy will be moved to Jerusalem and Palestinians will protest the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, capping six weeks of actions.
China has opened a railway link with Iran almost coincidental with Trump’s reimposition of sanctions on the Middle Eastern country, with more sanctions being introduced, and potentially more on the way.
While the US is trying to scare other nations and their corporations away from doing any business with Iran, not everyone is paying it heed. China has built a railway link to Iran which they are now opening up for use, and has no intention of shelving it just because the US says so.
As the EU has increasingly faced an atmosphere of disunity and disruption, Trump’s ditching the JCPOA only threatens to make matters worse for Europe.
But that’s not all, says the EU’s foreign policy chief, Frederica Mogherini, it also increasingly isolates America as she points out that ‘no country is big enough to face this world alone’.
It seems that Trump’s hubris is big enough to try it.
Politico reports:
Germany’s Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, who has a history of expressing anti Russian rhetoric relevant to Russia’s presence in Syria as well as an alleged cyber attack on the German Foreign Ministry which Maas says that he ‘has to assume stemmed from Russia’, has turned an about face. He has traveled, for the first time, to Moscow to discuss international diplomacy, the Iran nuclear deal, peace talks on Ukraine, and Syria.
The Saker • Unz Review • May 11, 2018 There have been major developments this week, all of them bad, including Putin re-nominating Medvedev as his Prime Minister, and Bibi Netanyahu invited to Moscow to the Victory Day Parade in spite of him bombing Syria, a Russian ally, just on the eve of his visit. […]
