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Ah - kicking the can down the road while allowing Iran to become dominant in the Region along with Russia? That is some great time buying right there!
Probably similar to what he just achieved with North Korea using a combination of credible threats and carrots and ultimately getting them to come to the negotiation table for talks.
Few in Iran blames the USA, they blame the Mullahs. The Mullahs can't even make payments to their rural based militias because they spent it all in Syria, Yemen, Gaza, and Lebanon. People in Iran no longer buy the Mullah's attempts at distraction, and believe they are the obstacle to structural reform.
The goal is incremental disarmament, and the sanctions will disappear in stages. The opposite of Obama tactics, where the goodies are delivered up front but the enforcement dies away quickly.
That sounds like our former North Korea policy.
Maybe a realist foreign policy is better than the previous policies.
Has the countdown to the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Iran begun? Or can the theocratic regime reform and survive?
lol--you guys are hilarious You all panned Obama for talking with Iran and negotiating a deal. Now Trump is a God for copying that strategy with N. Korea.
We have a great record at regime change, and especially forcing those with sanctions. Cuba? Venezuela? Iraq? Russia?
The difference with Iran is that in 180 days, anybody who doesn't sanction Iran won't be allowed to sell in the US.
The Trump cheerleaders are very optimistic. It feels like we are 20 minutes into the Trump/NK movie, and the Trump/Iran movie just started. You guys are all claiming victory before the opening credits fade away. I'm not rooting for failure, but I just cannot muster the confidence in Supreme leader.
Is the timing merely coincidence, that as the first day of midterm primaries, the Republicans are back to their old tricks?
They have a long way to go, but you have to be blind to discount these recent reforms:
- Allowing women to drive
- Allowing women to attend sporting events
- Allowing movie theaters
- Privatizing Aramco
- Negotiating with the Vatican to open up churches in Saudi Arabia
- Forging warmer ties to Israel
Yes its a very low bar, but that is par for the course for whack job theocracies like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
So starving 7 million people to death in Yemen is called moderate islam.
I'm sorry, which of these things dials back the KSA sponsored world wide army of radical islamists sworn to terrorize the western societies. I'm not seeing it some how.
KSA is just bowing to the demographic reality that most of the country is very young and not willing to live under the current repressive regime without trouble. Loosening up some pretty meaningless restrictions is a very easy way to avoid having to put out a lot of time, money, and effort to enforce them.
You mean few in Iran used to blame the USA. After Trump's moves, I imagine that opinion has changed. They respected Obama--I doubt the same is true of Trump.
TwoScoopsOfDragonEnergy saysFew in Iran blames the USA, they blame the Mullahs. The Mullahs can't even make payments to their rural based militias because they spent it all in Syria, Yemen, Gaza, and Lebanon. People in Iran no longer buy the Mullah's attempts at distraction, and believe they are the obstacle to structural reform.
You mean few in Iran used to blame the USA. After Trump's moves, I imagine that opinion has changed. They respected Obama--I doubt the same is true of Trump.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to return from North Korea with three American detainees from his second visit to Pyongyang in less than six weeks to discuss a looming summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.
An official at the presidential Blue House said that the three US detainees were expected to be brought with Mr Pompeo, who arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday morning to work out details for the upcoming summit. Mr Trump has said the two countries had agreed on a date and location for the summit although he did not provide details.
We want them to permanently eliminate their nuclear program.
It's that simple.
They will likely blame the US, and that will make it advantageous for their leaders to wage rhetorical war with the US and develop weapons.
Nothing's permanent, and we are unlikely to achieve success by starving Iranians.
You think old bone spurs is going to put his military where his mouth is and force the issue?
Will Israel fight our war for us if we pay them enough ?
Strategist saysWe want them to permanently eliminate their nuclear program.
It's that simple.
Nothing's permanent, and we are unlikely to achieve success by starving Iranians. They will likely blame the US, and that will make it advantageous for their leaders to wage rhetorical war with the US and develop weapons.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that three American prisoners released from North Korea were headed home.
It is a sign of potential good will ahead of Trump's planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump said he would greet the three men when they arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in the early hours of the morning.
Nothing's permanent, and we are unlikely to achieve success by starving Iranians.
This doesn't make much sense. We were successful in starving the horrible evil nazi racist South Africans into giving up their nukes, why won't we be successful with the great, smart, chess-playing, cuddly Iranians?
This doesn't make much sense. We were successful in persuading the horrible evil nazi racist South Africans to give up their nukes, why won't be successful with the great, smart, chess-playing, cuddly Iranians?
Does SA seem similar to Iran to you?
SA gave up their nukes, because the perceived threat (Soviet Union) collapsed.
The big part in USSR's collapse, BTW, were sanctions imposed on the Soviet fucks by Ronald Reagan
De Klerk listed Russia's operations in Africa as the main reason for building the bomb. Ergo, without that event, it probably wouldn't have been given up, even if De Klerk wanted to.
I thought it was because communism sucks and capitalism is great. In all seriousness, I'm not against sanctions. I just think that they are only useful if a carrot or stick choice is presented, and the carrot option is better than the stick. The only Carrot we have heard about D Trump using is the one he dips in playmates and porn stars (in exchange for fat cash of course). If the stick is better (for the leaders) than the carrot, then you get NK.
Goodbye, Frederica Mog! The EU "Foreign Minister" and Big League Iran Deal defender will not seek another term.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/may/08/iran-nuclear-deal-donald-trump-latest-live-updates
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear/trump-expected-to-exit-iran-deal-europeans-say-tehran-defiant-idUSKBN1I90D6
Well, we found out Iran kept all it's nuclear bomb research, that the plan all along was to make at least five 10KT bombs (not nuclear power), and that memos said they were just waiting for the inspection regime to expire (which it does over the next few years).
The MSM is deceitfully claiming there's nothing but "Old News" even though they haven't seen the 100,000 docs that make up the raw intel. And other things, because the WH has said they have additional information aside from Bibi's Mossad that shows the Ayatollahs have been lying the whole time.
The Iranian Rial is now 42,000 - does this look like a strengthening economy and regime?
Printing money to prop up Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah is not a winning economic strategy.