Appeasing the Saudi-Israel axis in the Mideast, President Trump is talking tough against Iran and bringing his administration even more into line with neocon orthodoxy, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. By Paul R. Pillar The Trump administration is…Read more →
A poster on the street with a portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump and a sentence referring to a quotation of Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 10, 2017. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
(ANALYSIS) — After launching the disastrous missile strikes against Syrian military forces that resulted in the killing of Syrian soldiers, civilians, and children as well as sending ships toward North Korea in a flagrant act of aggression and dropping the largest known non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan, the Trump administration is now taking aim at Iran.
A submarine missile is paraded across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country’s late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. April 15, 2017. (AP/Wong Maye-E)
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the U.S.-Saudi Arabia CEO Summit, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Yesterday The Duran reported that US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson (as required by law to report to Congress on Iran’s adherence to the nuclear deal) had affirmed that Iran is in fact complying with the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated under the Obama White House.
On Wednesday, however, we got another Trump flip flop, which is in fact a return to Trump’s campaign rhetoric on Iran…the Trump Administration is flip flopping yesterday’s flip flop on Iran.
These days, any small amount of foreign policy realism from the Trump administration is good news.
The goods news is that both Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson have acknowledged that Iran is in full compliance with the nuclear deal agreed between Iran, the US, Russia, China, UK, France and Germany.
The bad news and frankly the absurd news is that Tillerson has said Iran,
“…remains a leading state sponsor of terror through many platforms and methods”.
(ZHE) The U.S. Air Force scrambled two F-22 stealth fighters on Monday night to intercept a pair of Russian nuclear-capable bombers which came as close as 100 miles from Alaska’s Kodiak Island, Fox reports. This was the first time since President Trump took office that Moscow has sent bombers so close to the U.S.
Rex Tillerson’s recent trip to Moscow, amidst a ramp up in tensions between the US and Russia over Trump’s illegal missile strike on Syria, was seen by many analysts as a failed attempt by the Trump White House to deliver ultimatums to a Russia committed to defeating ISIS, and preventing Syria from failing under ISIS-Al Qaeda control.
The Russian authorities have quietly confirmed today what we said previously: the hotline between the US and Russian militaries in Syria is still suspended despite previous claims that the Russians had agreed to reinstate it.
