In het
hieronder opgenomen artikel, geschreven door Darius Shahtahmasebi,
betoogt hij dat niet Iran de nucleaire deal schendt maar de VS!
Dezelfde VS, die sinds de Trump administratie aan het bewind is, deze
deal van tafel wil hebben, zoals o.a. Trump zelf meermaals op een
meer dan belachelijke manier heeft gesteld.
Echter
als je de bepalingen in deze deal, de ‘Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) leest en deze goed analyseert,
is het juist de VS die dit JCPOA schendt!
Voorts
hebben zelfs de psychopaten Pompeo, Tillerson, Mattis en het State
Department (het VS ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken) gesteld dat Iran zich
wel degelijk aan deze overeenkomst houdt. Naast deze spelers heeft ook de IAEA
(het internationaal atoomagentschap) gesteld dat Iran zich aan de
deal hield en houdt, een vaststelling die de IAEA maar liefst 9 keer heeft gedaan……. Ook EU partners in de IAEA en de EU hebben dit meermaals vastgesteld…..
Lees
het volgende verhelderende relaas van Shahtahmasebi (en zegt het
voort, de reguliere media beginnen meer en meer de leugens van de
Trump administratie in deze te herhalen en te verdedigen, niet in de
laatste plaats te danken aan de belachelijke ‘openbaringen’ van
Palestijnenslachter Netanyahu en zijn psychopathische collega
Lieberman*):
Iran
Isn’t Violating the Nuclear Agreement — America Is
May
2, 2018 at 3:21 pm
Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — On
Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his
most grandiose
anti-Iranian performance to
date, revealing what he believed was direct proof that Iran “lied”
about its nuclear program. This isn’t the first time Netanyahu has
overhyped the threat of Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons
program. He has been crying
wolf over
Iran since as far back as 1992.
The
aim of this performance is to cast doubt on the efficacy of the
Iranian nuclear accord signed in 2015, officially known as the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which U.S. President Donald
Trump has long intended to completely derail. Netanyahu, of course,
is totally on board with this goal.
Following
Netanyahu’s speech, the White House released a
statement of its own, saying Israel’s intelligence confirms what
the U.S. had already known — that “Iran
has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried
and failed to hide from the world.”
Not long after, the White House issued a second
statement that
changed the word “has” to “had,” appearing to suggest that
Iran no longer possesses a nuclear weapons program. However, a White
House official later explained to NBC
News that
the wrong tense was the result of a “clerical error.”
Either
way, despite the uncompromising anti-Iranian narrative, the
prevailing truth appears to be that Iran is in full compliance with
the JCPOA, and the main officials involved — including Trump and
Netanyahu — are well aware of this. In his April 12 Senate
confirmation hearing, then-CIA director Mike Pompeo (who this week
began his tenure as secretary of state) said he
has “seen
no evidence that they [Iran] are not in compliance today.”
Just
last month, the State Department once again issued a report declaring
that “Iran
continued to fulfill its nuclear-related commitments”
under the JCPOA following an ongoing pattern of the State
Department even under the watch of Rex Tillerson, who essentially
forced Trump
to certify Iran’s compliance. Secretary of Defense James “Mad
Dog” Mattis has
also said Iran
is “fundamentally” in compliance with the nuclear agreement.
Further,
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has
also confirmed Iran’s
compliance at least nine times, as have the European
partners to
the JCPOA and practically the entire EU.
“The
deal is working, it is delivering on its main goal which means
keeping the Iranian nuclear programme in check,” said
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief, before
acknowledging that the JCPOA is “making
the world safer and … preventing a potential nuclear arms race in
the region.”
In
fact, as the Atlantic’s Peter
Beinart has explained,
it is Donald Trump’s administration that is most likely violating
the JCPOA — not Iran.
According
to Beinart:
“The
more interesting question isn’t whether Iran has been complying
with the nuclear deal. It’s whether America has. American
journalists often describe the
agreement as a trade. In the words of one CNN report, it ‘obliges
Iran to limit its nuclear program in exchange for the suspension of
economic sanctions.’
But there’s more to it than that. The deal doesn’t only require
the United States to lift nuclear sanctions. It requires the United
States not to inhibit Iran’s reintegration into the global economy.
Section 26 commits the
U.S. (and its allies) ‘to prevent interference with the realisation
of the full benefit by Iran of the sanctions lifting specified’ in
the deal. Section 29 commits the
U.S. and Europe to ‘refrain from any policy specifically intended
to directly and adversely affect the normalisation of trade and
economic relations with Iran.’ Section 33 commits them to ‘agree
on steps to ensure Iran’s access in areas of trade, technology,
finance and energy.’”
This
is the interesting part. According to those sections, the U.S. has
been violating the JCPOA for some time now.
As
Beinart explains further:
“The
Trump administration has likely been violating these
clauses. The Washington
Post reported that
at a NATO summit last May, ‘Trump tried to persuade European
partners to stop making trade and business deals with Iran.’ Then,
in July, Trump’s director of legislative affairs boasted that
at a G20 summit in Germany, Trump had ‘underscored the need for
nations … to stop doing business with nations that sponsor
terrorism, especially Iran.’ Both of these lobbying efforts appear
to violate America’s pledge to ‘refrain from any policy
specifically intended to directly and adversely affect the
normalisation of trade and economic relations with Iran.’”
Or,
take for example, sanctions imposed on
Iran by the Trump administration in July of last year that targeted
“procurement
of advanced military hardware, such as fast attack boats and unmanned
aerial vehicles, and send a strong signal that the United States
cannot and will not tolerate Iran’s provocative and destabilizing
behaviour,” according to
a statement released by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin.
Beinart
also explains how that 22 of the deal specifically requires the U.S.
to allow for the sale of commercial passenger aircraft and related
parts and services to Iran,” which,
as Al-Monitor revealed, “requests
concerning permits to export planes to Iran have been piling up …
OFAC** has not responded to aircraft sales licensing requests since the
first of such licenses were issued during the Barack Obama
administration.”
In
other words, Iran is in compliance with the JCPOA but the U.S. isn’t.
Does the U.S. abide by its own rules, or should it be held to the
same standards that the world has held Iran ransom to for decades?
It
is nothing short of extraordinary that the only country to have ever
used nuclear weapons can be the one violating an international
agreement all while it consistently demonizes another state for
allegedly violating the very same agreement. Why is it that the U.S.
can violate the JCPOA with no consequence but Iran is demonized even
as it continues to comply with it?
The
problem with the JCPOA isn’t that it isn’t working; the problem
for people like Trump and Netanyahu is that it is working too well.
Op-ed
/ Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
a typo
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* Zie: ‘Iran moet hangen en Iran-deal moet van tafel……. Israël speelt wolf in schaapskleren‘
** OFAC: Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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