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President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House today
DONALD TRUMP’S cheerleaders and assorted wishful thinkers suggest that the US president’s intemperate decision to abandon the Iran nuclear agreement will usher in speedy negotiation of another better deal.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed by the five permanent members of the UN security council, plus Germany and Iran, in 2015 took hard negotiations over a substantial timescale to secure agreement.
It provides for gradual removal of damaging economic sanctions against Tehran in return for Iran’s uranium enrichment programme being wound down.
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
The US’s bid for regime change in the Islamic Republic has become more urgent as it seeks to encircle and contain a resurgent China, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
In part one of two articles, STEVE BISHOP exposes blatant lies of the warmongers who demand ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran using the excuse of nuclear weapons, when it is Israel that blatantly disregards international law