By Jan Oberg | CounterPunch | May 9, 2018 Against all common sense, moral considerations and international law, U.S. President Donald Trump tonight decided to place the United States outside the international so-called community and isolate itself, not Iran. He withdrew the United States from what is one of the most important negotiated peace-oriented agreements […]
One of the growing concerns resulting from Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran deal, is that oil – and gasoline – prices will jump so much, now that anywhere between 200kb/d and 700kb/d in Iran exports is taken out of the market, they will offset most benefits to U.S. consumers from the Trump tax cuts.
On Saturday, Rudy Giulani, speaking to the Iran Freedom Convention for Democracy and Human Rights, said that as soon as the sanctions are reimplemented on Iran that it will spur more protests leading to regime change.
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States is officially walking away from the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). As Anti-Media has already outlined, it appears that right from the get-go, it was the United States that implemented this agreement in bad faith — not Iran. To […]
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The news for the economy appears “positive” as a combination of a strong American economy and the worries over Iran and the Venezuelan economic crisis together pushed crude oil prices through the $70 mark for the first time since November of 2014.
By Philip Giraldi | American Herald Tribune | May 7, 2018 Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo has recently completed his first trip to the Middle East as U.S. Secretary of State. Perhaps not surprisingly as President Donald Trump appears prepared to decertify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) limiting Iran’s nuclear program […]
WASHINGTON — While the international community is continuing to urge U.S. President Donald Trump to step back from his clear intention to kill the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the U.S. leader continues to defy the diplomatic path with an unrelenting hostile policy against the Islamic Republic and threats to revive sanctions against Tehran if Western powers don’t modify alleged “terrible flaws” in the accord by May 12.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his most grandiose anti-Iranian performance to date, revealing what he believed was direct proof that Iran “lied” about its nuclear program. This isn’t the first time Netanyahu has overhyped the threat of Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons program.
