De
Trump administratie wil hoe dan ook de ‘Iran nuclear deal’ de nek
omdraaien en eist van de andere deelnemers, vooral die in de EU
dezelfde houding, zonder dat deze administratie daar over wil
discussiëren……….
De
VS wil ‘opnieuw onderhandelen’ over deze overeenkomst met Iran, met
daarin bepalingen waarvan men weet dat Iran hier niet mee akkoord kan
en zal gaan…….
‘Uiteraard’
komt de Trump administratie met het versleten cliché over de Iraanse ongebreidelde agressie….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Een gevalletje de
pot verwijt een piepklein keteltje dat het zwart ziet, waarbij
opgemerkt moet worden dat de VS kleurenblind is (behalve als het om
de repressie tegen de gekleurde bevolking in de VS gaat)……..
Als
er een ‘land’ is dat ongebreidelde agressie gebruikt, is het de VS
wel! Alleen deze eeuw al 4 illegale oorlogen en de regie over een
paar (illegale) oorlogen in Afrika……. Dit nog buiten de door
Washington op poten gezette opstanden die tot een coup hebben geleid
en als dit niet lukte alsnog uitmonden in een (illegale) oorlog, zoals in Syrië,
waar de VS al vanaf 2006 bezig was met het opzetten van een opstand
(die tot een coup moest leiden)……
Kortom
de Trump administratie is bezig met de voorbereiding op een oorlog
tegen Iran (waarvoor de nucleaire leugen tegen Iran overigens maar één
van de ‘redenen’ is…..)…. Het is maar zeer de vraag of Rusland
en China zich afzijdig zullen houden, mocht de VS een illegale oorlog
tegen Iran beginnen….. Als dit niet het geval zal zijn, is een in
volle omvang uitbarsten van WOIII bijzonder dichtbij……
Hoe
is het mogelijk dat men in het westen in de 60er, 70er en 80er jaren
massaal in opstand kwam tegen de terreur van de VS, waar ook toen een
nucleaire oorlog meermaals in de lucht hing, waar men nu doodstil is en de
VS haar gang laat gaan…??? Terwijl het gevaar op een nucleaire
oorlog nu veel groter is dan destijds, immers de VS (en
Groot-Brittannië) spreken nu openlijk over het inzetten van nucleaire
wapens bij een militair conflict, sterker nog: de Trump administratie
dreigt zelfs met nucleaire vergelding als ‘een land’ (Rusland, China
en Noord-Korea) mocht beslissen een ‘cyberaanval’ te beginnen tegen
de VS……. ‘Cyberaanvallen’ zoals de zogenaamde manipulatie van de
VS presidentsverkiezingen, waarvoor tot op heden geen enkel steekhoudend
bewijs is geleverd, maar waar wel een enorm aantal bewijzen liggen voor dit soort van handelingen door de VS zelf in andere landen!!
Washington
Delivers New Ultimatum On Iran
By
Bill Van Auken
February
21, 2018 “Information
Clearing House” – The US State Department has
issued a fresh ultimatum on the Iran nuclear deal to Washington’s
ostensible major allies in Europe, demanding that Germany, Britain
and France commit themselves to altering the agreement along the
lines demanded by President Donald Trump or face its unilateral
abrogation by the US.
A
secret State Department cable obtained by Reuters presents what are
essentially the same demands made by Trump last January. At that
time, he announced that he was prepared to relaunch all-out US
economic warfare against Iran unless the European powers joined
Washington in imposing a rewritten nuclear accord on Tehran,
including provisions that the Iranian government cannot and will not
accept.
The
occasion for Trump’s threat was his reluctant announcement on
January 12 that he had decided to waive the reimposition of US
sanctions that were lifted as part of the nuclear agreement, formally
known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He vowed
that this would be the last time he issued such a waiver, unless his
conditions were met. The next deadline for waiving the sanctions is
May 12.
The
message from the State Department to the European powers asks for
their “commitment that we should work together to seek a
supplemental or follow-on agreement that addresses Iran’s
development or testing long-range missiles, ensures strong IAEA
inspections, and fixes the flaws of the ‘sunset clause.’”
Washington
has demanded that Iran grant International Atomic Energy Agency
inspectors immediate and unlimited access to any site in the country,
including military bases; the elimination of “sunset clauses” in
the JCPOA, making time-limited restrictions on aspects of Iran’s
civil nuclear program permanent; and drastically limiting, if not
outlawing, Iran’s ballistic missile program.
While
presented by Reuters and other media as a softening of the position
outlined by Trump in January, the cable makes it clear that the US is
continuing to present its nominal allies in Europe with an ultimatum.
“In
the absence of a clear commitment from your side to address these
issues, the United States will not again waive sanctions in order to
stay in the Iran nuclear deal. If at any time the President judges
that such commitment is not within reach, the President indicated he
would end US participation in the deal.”
The
cable’s “talking points” for US diplomats to advance
Washington’s agenda in Europe stress “the Trump administration’s
strategy to counter the Iranian regime’s reckless aggression,”
which “addresses the full range of Iranian threats, of which Iran’s
nuclear program is only one element.”
The
clear implication is that Washington is embarked on a trajectory of
war with Iran, either with or without the collaboration of its NATO
allies in Berlin, London and Paris. Should they join with the US in
ripping up the nuclear accord, it will set them on a collision course
not only with Iran, but also with Russia and China, the two other
signatories to the JCPOA.
The
US has spelled out its own intentions in the Trump administration’s
recent National Security Strategy, lumping Iran together with North
Korea under the category of “rogue states” that represent a
threat to US “national interests” and are to be confronted and
defeated.
None
of the European powers responded directly to the US cable, which the
State Department itself refused to discuss. Asked about the US
demands in an online media briefing, the French Foreign Ministry
declared: “The French position on the Iran nuclear deal is known.
As the President of the Republic [Emmanuel Macron] has said, we
reaffirm our full attachment to the global action plan and its strict
implementation.” It added that Paris would “continue to talk
about the Iran nuclear program with our European and American
partners.”
The
European powers are pursuing their own imperialist interests in the
Middle East and are increasingly at odds with US interests and
strategies. The lifting of sanctions against Iran was greeted by
European corporations as an opportunity to generate a fresh stream of
profits through billions of dollars in new investments and trade
deals. Many of these plans remain unfulfilled because of concerns
that the US will target companies with unilateral sanctions, and that
their investments could go up in smoke in the event of a new and
catastrophic US war in the Middle East.
While
hostile to Iran’s growing influence in the region, the European
powers are increasingly alarmed at the prospect that Washington’s
strategy of forging a regional anti-Iranian alliance with Israel and
Saudi Arabia, together with the other Sunni Gulf oil sheikdoms, will
produce a military confrontation that could cut off oil supplies upon
which Europe depends and unleash a political and refugee crisis that
will spill onto the continent.
Washington
has issued its latest ultimatum in the midst of an explosive
escalation of regional tensions, driven in the main by US and Israeli
aggression. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spelled out Tel
Aviv’s aggressive stance against Iran in a bellicose speech to the
Munich Security Conference on Sunday. Holding up what he claimed was
a piece of an Iranian drone shot down over Israeli-occupied Syrian
territory in the Golan Heights, he denounced Iran as “the greatest
threat to the world,” equating it with Nazi Germany.
“We
will act without hesitation to defend ourselves, and we will act if
necessary not just against Iran’s proxies that are attacking us,
but against Iran itself,” said Netanyahu, in a clear threat to
attack Iran, an action that his government would undertake only with
US backing.
Israel
responded to the alleged overflight of the drone, which Tehran
insists was launched by independent Syrian militia elements in Syria,
by targeting Iranian personnel in Syria with air strikes. Syrian air
defense units succeeded in shooting down an Israeli F-16 fighter jet,
the first such loss for the Israeli Air Force since the early 1980s.
Speaking
in response to Netanyahu at the Munich conference, Mohammad Javad
Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, attributed the frenzied tone of
Netanyahu’s speech to the downing of the warplane. “The so-called
invincibility of [Israel] has crumbled,” he said.
The
US military and intelligence apparatus and its loyal stenographers in
the US corporate media are churning out continuous war propaganda
against Iran.
Speaking
at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, US national security
advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster declared it was necessary to “act
against Iran,” which he accused of arming a “network of proxies”
that is “becoming more and more capable as Iran seeds more and
more…destructive weapons into these networks.”
The New
York Times published
a lengthy piece Monday based on interviews with Israeli military
officers and government officials along with representatives of US,
Israeli and Saudi-funded think tanks alleging that Iran is “creating
an infrastructure [in Syria] to threaten Israel.” Needless to say,
the article made no mention of Israel’s own funding and aid for
Sunni Islamist militias attacking the Syrian government of President
Bashar al-Assad.
The
same issue of the Times carried
an opinion piece by US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley
claiming, falsely, that a report issued by the United Nations proved
that Iran has shipped missiles to the Houthi rebels in Yemen to fire
at Saudi Arabia. The actual report found that “remnants” of the
missiles were of Iranian origin, while providing no evidence as to
how they got there.
Haley
insists that the world must “act before a missile hits a school or
a hospital and leads to a dangerous military escalation that provokes
a Saudi military response.”
The
column echoes the “big lie” methods pioneered by Nazi Minister of
Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
That Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemeni
schools, hospitals, neighborhoods and infrastructure for nearly three
years, killing some 13,000 Yemeni civilians and plunging the
country’s population into the worst humanitarian crisis on the
planet, goes unmentioned.
Haley
is also silent on the fact that the US has provided the vast majority
of the bombs and missiles dropped on the Yemeni people, while
mounting logistical and refueling operations that make the mass
slaughter possible.
This
article was originally published by “WSWS”
–
Copyright
© 1998-2018 World Socialist Web Site
Zie
ook: ‘The Coming Wars to End AllWars‘ geschreven door Edward Curtin:
The
Trump and Netanyahu governments have a problem: How to start a
greatly expanded Middle-Eastern war without having a justifiable
reason for one.
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PS: ben het niet eens met Auken wat betreft de opstelling van de EU, als zou de EU haar eigen imperialistische belangen najagen in het Midden-Oosten, waar hij de ‘Iran deal’ als voorbeeld noemt. Uiteraard blijven de andere partijen die voor deze deal tekenden, geloven in deze deal, dit daar de Trump administratie (zoals gewoonlijk) met een hele bak leugens komt om deze deal de nek om te draaien….. Wat dit met imperialisme te maken heeft zie ik niet. Verder lopen de meeste EU landen blindelings aan achter de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde: de VS………..
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