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demmiblue

(36,893 posts)
Wed May 8, 2019, 08:02 AM May 2019

Iran Will Stop Complying With Some Parts of Nuclear Deal

Source: NYT

Iran’s president declared on Wednesday that the country would stop complying with two of its commitments under the Iranian nuclear deal, pushing the growing confrontation between Washington and Tehran into new and potentially dangerous territory.

The announcement by President Hassan Rouhani came exactly a year after President Trump withdrew entirely from the 2015 agreement, which limited Iran’s capacity to produce nuclear fuel for 15 years.

But Mr. Rouhani did not follow Mr. Trump’s path and renounce the entire agreement. Instead, he notified European nations that he was taking some carefully calibrated steps, and that he would give Europe 60 days to choose between following Mr. Trump or saving the deal by engaging in oil trade with Iran in violation of American unilateral sanctions.

“The path we have chosen today is not the path of war, it is the path of diplomacy,” he said in a nationally broadcast speech. “But diplomacy with a new language and a new logic.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/us/politics/iran-nuclear-deal.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage




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Iran Will Stop Complying With Some Parts of Nuclear Deal (Original Post) demmiblue May 2019 OP
This was inevitable after Trump's withdrawal for non-nuclear reasons muriel_volestrangler May 2019 #1
It was inevitable after it became clear that the US alone leaving led to their economic isolation karynnj May 2019 #2
"The path we have chosen today is not the path of war, it is the path of diplomacy," Bayard May 2019 #3
This was anticipated LibFarmer May 2019 #4
This is what happens Blue_Tires May 2019 #5
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 #6

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
1. This was inevitable after Trump's withdrawal for non-nuclear reasons
Wed May 8, 2019, 08:27 AM
May 2019

They'd kept the nuclear deal; Trump said "but what about missiles - I'm breaking the nuclear deal". The sanctions are about to kick in in a big way, so they really have no choice but to say the treaty doesn't apply any more, and is that what Europe really wants?

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
2. It was inevitable after it became clear that the US alone leaving led to their economic isolation
Wed May 8, 2019, 09:37 AM
May 2019

Trump's recent action removing any waivers for other countries was forcing the world to choose the US market or Iran. This returned Iran back to the point of the very heavy sanctions before the deal ... even as they continued to comply for a year.

I noticed in Haaretz this morning that Netanyahu took the occasion to declare that he had to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. It is hard to see this as leading to diplomacy.

Bayard

(22,154 posts)
3. "The path we have chosen today is not the path of war, it is the path of diplomacy,"
Wed May 8, 2019, 10:03 AM
May 2019

Now, who sounds like the more mature leader?

 

LibFarmer

(772 posts)
4. This was anticipated
Wed May 8, 2019, 11:57 AM
May 2019

The Europeans are put in a tough spot and they are likely to go along with Iran knowing how weak Trump has become and that he will be gone in 19 months.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
5. This is what happens
Wed May 8, 2019, 12:07 PM
May 2019

when Trump pulls out of the deal in the most douchebaggy manner possible while still having the nerve to say "But Iran, *YOU* still have to comply!"

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