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2018-09-25 Europe
Defying Trump, powers agree to evade Iran sanctions, keep nuke deal alive
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Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 I'm aware that 'bless their hearts' is a cute Southern coquilism meant to diplomatically couch disagreement with one's opinions. It's always irritated me, for some reason; haughty, perhaps, as if John Kerry grew up sucking on mint juleps or something. I'm a proponent of more direct and unambiguous speech, like 'suck on my big hairy donkey balls, you're about to get nailed in the ass and love it like the French philosophers you are, and hope you love the bill for NATO I'm gonna shove up your ass next month', cuz that's what's gonna happen. Granted it's crude, but unmistakable in intent, though probably more Philly than Boston...
Posted by Raj 2018-09-25 00:23||   2018-09-25 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 French state-owned bank drops plan to aid trade with Iran
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-25 04:42||   2018-09-25 04:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Volvo quits Iran as US sanctions pressure mounts
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-25 04:43||   2018-09-25 04:43|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder what blackmail fodder the Iranians have on the EUSSR politburo?

Must be able to turn off those swiss bank accounts.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-09-25 05:54||   2018-09-25 05:54|| Front Page Top

#5 "Justification" for the Pres. Trump ending aid to the Palestinians? How about common sense ?
Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-25 05:58||   2018-09-25 05:58|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder what blackmail fodder the Iranians have on the EUSSR politburo?

The same question should be asked about the US political class. The Iran Review Act passed with an overwhelming majority in Congress; only one Senator voted nay.

This vote was the a de facto ratification of the Iran deal with not really plausible deniability.

The only material disadvantage compared to real ratification was the President's prerogative to withdraw from the deal without Congressional approval.

But then, Trump wasn't supposed to happen.

The US political class played a charade, knowing that their political consensus was unpopular among the electorate.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-09-25 06:34||   2018-09-25 06:34|| Front Page Top

#7 The agreement not a treaty was sealed in 2015 in a signature achievement for then US president Barack Obama
Posted by Frank G 2018-09-25 07:39||   2018-09-25 07:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Good old European allies! Always have our backs when we need it!

By which I mean they suck. Someone tell me again why we pay for far, far more of NATO than we should?
Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-09-25 07:55||   2018-09-25 07:55|| Front Page Top

#9 This vote was the a de facto ratification of the Iran deal with not really plausible deniability.

Not unique EH.
We're still canceling the party line healthcare plan.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-25 08:06||   2018-09-25 08:06|| Front Page Top

#10 The US Department of the Treasury is the most sophisticated intelligence operation we have. To think that somehow European companies can avoid its overview and trade with Iran without consequence is absurd. The big European companies know it, and have already left Iran.
Posted by Hupusing Claitch6798 2018-09-25 09:03||   2018-09-25 09:03|| Front Page Top

#11 " EU to set up legal entity allowing European businesses to continue trading with Tehran"

And the US will roll over for this legal fiction, exactly why?
Posted by Hupegum Tholutch1034 2018-09-25 09:21||   2018-09-25 09:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Some allies...........true colors now show for all to see.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-09-25 10:32||   2018-09-25 10:32|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the EU members are hoping to avoid that blackmail folder being opened by saying "We tried."

I'm sure Iran kept a list of bank accounts that they transferred those pallets of cash to.
Posted by gorb 2018-09-25 10:37||   2018-09-25 10:37|| Front Page Top

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