This yet another in a string of bombings that are thought to be part of the shadow war Israel is engaged in with the Iranians, who have built up their military muscle – including stockpiling surface-to-surface missiles – inside Syria. The same behavior existed in previous US presidents.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) released a statement praising the president’s action and describing the Iran deal as a “catastrophe”.
“It is clear to me that we can not prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement”, Trump continued.
US allies in Europe had tried to keep him in and lamented his move to abandon it. Iran’s leader ominously warned his country might “start enriching uranium more than before”.
“We remain adamant that a nuclear-armed Iran would never be acceptable to the United Kingdom”, he added, pledging Britain will continue to “counter Iran’s destabilising behaviour” in countries such as Syria and Yemen. “Together with the rest of the worldwide community, we will preserve this nuclear deal”. These nations have urged Iran to continue to meet its own obligations of the deal. Iran’s hopes for a brighter future had been turned over to a reality TV star turned demagogue. “We try to not only control our companies, but also try to control what other countries’ companies do”, said Judith Lee, an global trade lawyer at Gibson Dunn in Washington, D.C. Trump has repeatedly pointed to those omissions by calling the “terrible” accord the “worst deal ever”.
USA sanctions would prevent American companies from doing business with Iran.
The source said it was “obvious” from the Crown Prince’s talks with Trump in the White House on March 20 and a visit to Riyadh a month later by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that there had been a “coordination” of positions.
Iran’s currency, the rial, fell in the run-up to Mr Trump’s announcement and afterwards, heralding economic pain for the country.
For National Security Adviser John Bolton, old habits, apparently, die hard.
Khamenei questioned whether Europe had the will or the ability to save the nuclear deal.
Iran’s poor economy and unemployment sparked nationwide protests in December and January that saw at least 25 people killed and, reportedly, almost 5,000 arrested. Yet, many stayed home ― not out of support for the regime but out of fear for what might come next.
Second, the JCPOA has worked in rolling back Iran’s nuclear program. “This action damages our interests and image at home and overseas”.
Volkswagen, which began exporting cars to Iran a year ago, said it was “monitoring and reviewing political and economic developments in the region very closely”. “They’ve got to understand life because I don’t think they do understand life”. Any effort to counter Iran on the ground in these places would mean fighting the very forces we are effectively feeding. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said he was sending his foreign minister to the remaining countries but warned there was only a short time to negotiate with them. “Today’s action sends a critical message: The United States no longer makes empty threats”.
But the chances for such a follow-on agreement, even absent Trump, are slim.
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Iranian leaders have threatened to retaliate against the United States in response to Trump’s decision to abandon the landmark deal and reimpose a series of sanctions on Tehran that were lifted under the agreement.
