U.S. sanctions have begun to shift Tehran’s nuclear calculus. Now, COVID-19 may have provided Tehran with the opportunity to make a dash for the bomb.
Crippling U.S. sanctions are severely impeding Iranian efforts to combat the coronavirus, compelling Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to ask the United Nations for help.
The Trump administration will try to argue that it’s still part of the nuclear accord in attempt to trigger a mechanism that will ultimately kill it.
With the IAEA now raising concerns about Iran’s nuclear program, saving the JCPOA just got more difficult.
With the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign failing, its next step is to compel the reimposition of UN-mandated sanctions.
United Against a Nuclear Iran is naming and shaming pharmaceutical companies despite having special licenses to sell medicine to Iran.
Hardliners will now have to share responsibility for Iran’s problems.
Despite pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Trump administration is now claiming the U.S. is an active “participant” to trigger mechanisms that will kill it for good.
With Trump’s re-election uncertain, the pro-Iran war/regime change crowd may be running out of time to put the JCPOA away for good.
The designation gives the Trump administration another justification for its “maximum pressure” campaign.
The New York Times published an op-ed by FDD staffer Richard Goldberg and didn’t bother to tell anyone that FDD paid him a salary while working for Trump’s National Security Council.
This is classic McCarthyism: alleging or insinuating, on the basis of no good evidence, that Americans whose political views you dislike are acting in the service of a foreign power.
The E3 decision to trigger the Dispute Resolution Mechanism looks more like an attempt to shift the blame for its own impotence onto Iran rather than a necessary act of last resort to save the JCPOA.
Whether this move was self-imposed, or the result of President Trump threatening a 25 percent tariff on European cars, what do the U.K., France, and Germany hope to achieve?
