De
VS rekent Iran tot de schurkenstaten, terwijl de VS de ene na de andere illegale oorlog start op basis van leugens of zelfs false flag operaties, neem de oorlogen van de VS tegen Noord-Vietnam, Panama, Servië (ook nog eens als opperbevelhebber van de NAVO), Afghanistan, Irak (NB 2 keer, waar de laatste in feite nog steeds niet is afgelopen), Libië en Syrië (waar de VS de terroristen invloog en bewapende, zelfs die van IS…)….. Illegale oorlogen deze eeuw door de VS begonnen, hebben intussen al meer dan 2,5 mensen het leven gekost!! (en dan zou Iran een terreurstaat zijn….)

Voorts voert de VS economische oorlogen tegen ‘ongehoorzame landen’, waarbij telkens weer de bevolking het slachtoffer is, zo heeft de economische oorlog tegen Venezuela naar schatting al 40.000 mensen het leven gekost…… (ofwel de zoveelste vorm van massamoord door de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS!) Dit nog buiten:

geheime militaire moordacties o.l.v. de CIA.
het vermoorden van verdachten middels drones, waarbij meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht. (intussen al duizenden slachtoffers)
het opzetten van opstanden en staatsgrepen in landen waar de VS niets te zoeken heeft, zaken waarmee altijd mensenlevens zijn gemoeid…..

Trump
stelt dat hij geen oorlog zoekt met Iran, maar dat dit land geen
kernwapen mag hebben. Het beest is de weg geheel en al kwijt want nu
stelt hij dat wanneer Iran afziet van een kernwapen, hij dat land zal
omarmen…….

Precies
dat, het niet nastreven van een kernwapen, wist men al in 2007 uit inlichten
van geheime diensten uit de VS, destijds werd vastgesteld dat Iran was
gestopt met het werken aan een kernwapen waarmee het in 2003 was
begonnen…..

Bovendien
tekende Iran de nucleaire deal met o.a. de VS en beloofde daarin
precies wat de VS eiste en ondanks strenge controles van de IAEA (Internationaal Atoomenergie Agentschap), waarvan de uitkomsten aangaven dat Iran zich aan de afspraken hield, werd dit verdrag door Trump naar de
prullenbak verwezen……

‘Mooie woorden van Trump, terwijl de VS nog steeds bezig is met militaire opbouw in
de buurt van Iran, niet alleen met troepen, maar ook met
gevechtsvliegtuigen en zelfs een vliegdekschip……..

Hoorde in het nieuws van 12.00 u. (CET) op BBC World Service dat Groot-Brittannië een olietanker aan de ketting heeft gelegd, daar het eindbestemming Syrië zou hebben >> alsof GB en de VS het recht hebben om schepen aan te houden met een eindbestemming die de afzonderlijke regeringen als onaanvaardbaar hebben bestempeld…… Het wachten is op eenzelfde actie tegen Iran, waar terreurstaat VS dan zal optreden als ‘politieagent’.

Lees
het volgende artikel van Derek Davison, gepubliceerd op JACOBIN en verbaas je over het belachelijke en schandalige VS terreurbeleid tegen
Iran, immers de VS sancties hebben velen in Iran al in diepe ellende
doen wegzakken…… Deze economische oorlogsvoering is niets anders dan
grootschalige terreur en is gebaseerd op leugens over wat Iran zou
doen en nastreven……

The
US, Not Iran, Is the Rogue State

By
Derek Davison

Donald
Trump speaks after signing an executive order imposing new sanctions
on Iran at the White House on June 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark
Wilson / Getty Images)

Trump
says he wants to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, yet he
wrecked an international agreement that was doing just that. Now
we’re edging closer to a war that the US says it doesn’t want but
is doing everything to cause.

When
he’s not threatening
Iran with
“obliteration,” Donald Trump has, of late, noted his preference
for negotiations over war. He’s reportedly asked his
advisers, including hawkish Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and
ultra-hawkish National Security Advisor John Bolton, to “tone down”
their rhetoric on Iran. His Iran envoy, Brian Hooks, has told
Congress that
the goal of the administration’s “maximum pressure” sanctions
campaign is negotiations, not conflict.

Trump
has gone so far as to say he’ll
be Iran’s “best friend” — with one caveat: the Iranians give
up any efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. “We’re not going to
have Iran have a nuclear weapon,” he told reporters last weekend.
“When they agree to that, they’re going to have a wealthy
country. They’re going to be so happy, and I’m going to be their
best friend. I hope that happens.”

So
let’s take Trump at his word. Maybe he is interested in cutting a
deal. Let’s further acknowledge that the administration might not
be comfortable relying on Iran’s word (Tehran has insisted that
it “will never pursue a nuclear weapon ”) or even on the
word of US intelligence (which in a 2007 report concluded that
Iran stopped what nuclear weapons work it was doing in 2003). What
kind of agreement would it then be looking to negotiate with Tehran?

To
be viable, the plan would need to be an international one that
involved not just the US and Iran, but China, Russia, and major
European states. All these states would have to jointly take action
to ensure that Iran fulfilled its obligations under the pact and that
it benefited from doing so. The deal would need to be comprehensive,
covering all aspects of Iran’s nuclear program; include a mechanism
for enforcing Iranian compliance; and provide Iran with relief from
the current array of US and international sanctions.

This
hypothetical deal would be a win-win for all parties: the US and
company would get their coveted denuclearization, and Iran would be
freed from the sanctions that have wreaked havoc on their economy.

There’s
just one problem: that kind of deal has already been crafted. It’s
called the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA) — the
2015 accord that Iran agreed to with the United States, China,
France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom. The same accord that
Trump chose to scrap last year, which has now brought the US and Iran
to the brink of a military confrontation.

While
Trump spent the 2016 presidential campaign trashing the JCPOA
— calling
it “the
worst deal ever negotiated” and declaring his “number one
priority” would be to “dismantle” it — arms control experts
have supported it as an effective tool. More than eighty
non-proliferation specialists signed a joint
statement in
2017, before Trump abandoned the accord, saying that the JCPOA “has
proven to be an effective and verifiable arrangement that is a net
plus for international nuclear nonproliferation efforts” as well as
“an important success of multilateral diplomacy, the full
implementation of which is critical to international peace and
security.”

When
it was negotiated in 2015, the JCPOA’s premise was simple: in
return for accepting limitations on its nuclear power program and an
intense inspections regime to verify its compliance, Iran would get
relief from US and international sanctions. By obligating Iran to
redesign a heavy water reactor that could have generated significant
plutonium waste and establishing strict limits on Iran’s uranium
enrichment program, it closed off both of Iran’s potential pathways
to a nuclear weapon. Most critically, Iran agreed to an unprecedented
level of monitoring and inspections to verify its compliance.

That
work has been done by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which
has repeatedly affirmed Iran’s adherence to the deal.

This
is the agreement that Trump chose to violate last year. With his
reimposition of US sanctions — which apply not just to US entities
but all parties seeking to do business with Iran — it has become
impossible for Tehran to receive any benefits despite its fidelity to
the deal. Although the remaining signatories to the JCPOA have to
shield some Iranian commerce from US penalties, those efforts have
been very limited in scope and are, thanks to US dominance in the
global financial system, still ultimately vulnerable to sanctions.

It’s
little wonder that the Iranians have recently begun scaling
back their
own commitments to the nuclear deal and plan to continue scaling them
back. Amazingly, the Trump administration has warned Iran against
doing so — it “still expects Iran to abide by [the JCPOA’s]
terms,” according to NBC News. But the US withdrawal from the
JCPOA, combined with the Trump administration’s zealous application
of sanctions, has destroyed the pact. For all intents and purposes,
there is no JCPOA anymore, and the notion that Iran would continue to
adhere to a dead accord is, to say the least, unreasonable.

If
it appears that the Trump administration’s approach to Iran is
incoherent, that’s because it is. Trump says he wants to prevent
Iran from developing nuclear weapons, yet he wrecked an international
agreement that was doing just that. His advisers say they want to
force Iran to negotiate over an expanded deal that addresses the
original’s perceived shortcomings, but the best way to encourage
Iran to keep talking would have been to make sure that it received
all of its promised perks under the JCPOA.

Now
Iranian leaders call the
US offer to talk a “deception,” and even ostensible US allies
like France say they’ve seen “no
signal the US is interested in dialogue.” The administration claims
it wants to build a
“global coalition” to isolate and counter Iran, but its actions
have only isolated the US and shown that it, not Iran, is the rogue
state in this situation.

The
Trump administration has made sanctions an end unto themselves,
heaping more and more on Iran and offering Tehran no chance to
alleviate them that doesn’t involve some kind of capitulation.
After the most recent round of US sanctions — which targeted
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself — Iran suggested that
the “path to diplomacy” is now closed, and there’s no reason to
doubt they mean it.

The
one constant over the past forty years of Iran-US relations has been
Washington’s deep desire for regime change in Tehran. Seen in that
light, the administration’s refusal to create an off-ramp to
deescalate this entirely US-made crisis may be deliberate — part of
a plan to punish the Iranian people so severely that they eventually
rise up and topple their government on Washington’s behalf. But
there’s no indication that the effort is working, and in the
meantime millions of people are suffering for it while the Persian
Gulf region edges closer to a war that the US says it doesn’t want
but is doing everything to cause.

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Zie ook:

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‘Israël maakt zich op voor oorlog tegen Iran‘

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‘VS chanteert de wereld: geen olie import uit Iran, anders……..‘

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‘VS plant een bombardement op een Iraanse kerncentrale, verkennende VS drone neergeschoten‘

‘Kapitein Japans schip spreekt Trump administratie tegen over Iraanse kleefbom op zijn tanker‘

‘VS heeft stok ‘gevonden’ om oorlog tegen Iran te beginnen: Iran zou tankers hebben aangevallen‘

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