Weekly Update --- Frog-Marching Trump Toward War on Iran
Neocons are lying about Iran's nuclear enrichment.
Neocons are lying about Iran's nuclear enrichment.
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U.S. Hypocrisy In Iran Diplomacy
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, Frog Marching Trump Toward War on Iran. | |
| Hypocrisy seems to have become a defining characteristic of U.S. foreign policy, especially when it comes to Iran. | |
| After breaking the Iran deal last year and de facto forcing the Europeans to violate the deal in May, the U.S. administration is now complaining that Iran is no longer abiding by its obligations under the deal. | |
| It's remarkable to see Secretary of State Mike Pompeo take to Twitter to complain of Iran's enriching uranium to pre-deal levels as if somehow the U.S. believes it can dictate the terms of a deal to which it is no longer a party. | |
| This latest neocon push for U.S. war on Iran started last week when Iran exceeded the limits of a 300 kilogram stockpile of low-enriched uranium. | |
| As usual, the media only reported part of the story. | |
| One reason Iran went over the limits was that the countries to which Iran was exporting its excess uranium were notified by the U.S. in early May that they would face U.S. sanctions if they continued taking the uranium off Iranian hands. | |
| The U.S. created the crisis by preventing Iran from exporting its excess uranium and then pointing to the expanding Iranian stockpile of uranium enriched to 3.6% as proof that Iran was about to launch a nuclear weapon. | |
| Make no mistake about it. | |
| Trump's neocons are determined to trap him into a massive disastrous war with Iran and they are using the same tactics they used to hoodwink George W. Bush into a multi-trillion dollar war on an Iraq that could not have attacked us if it had wanted to. | |
| Secretary Pompeo tweeted yesterday the exact kind of dishonest hysterics used to terrify many Americans into supporting an Iraq attack 13 years ago. | |
| Iran's regime armed with nuclear weapons would pose an even greater threat to the world. | |
| As the former head of the CIA, surely Pompeo knows that his own agency had determined back in 2003 that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program and that every U.S. intelligence assessment since then has concurred with that conclusion. | |
| But then again, he did brag recently about his excellent ability to lie, cheat, and steal. | |
| Though the Europeans promised Iran that they would continue to honor the deal, they have proven themselves unable to put forth a credible alternative to the U.S.-dominated SWIFT system, meaning no trade in Iran's number one export, oil. | |
| Iran responded over the weekend to European fecklessness by announcing that they would begin enriching uranium up to 5%, which is a level needed to run one of its nuclear power generating plants. | |
| As could be predicted, this move, which is allowed under the section 36 of the Iran deal, is being treated as the equivalent of Saddam's mobile chemical weapons labs. | |
| The Iranians are not backing down. | |
| They rightly feel cheated as they continue to honor the deal even as the U.S. reimposed crippling sanctions meant to destroy their economy and starve their people. | |
| President Trump has a very serious decision to make. | |
| He is being frog marched into war by his neocons and his Middle East partners. | |
| He has very little time left to change course. | |
| If the neocons are not swept out immediately, he is risking both his second term and his legacy. | |