NOVANEWS
Kerry and the State Department are overreacting to the expected rush of countries and companies to do business in Iran
…by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor …with Press TV, Tehran
Why can’t they revamp their bad policy rather than push a bad hand?
They were on some kind of megalomaniac 21rst century ego trip.
The world, now that it knows of the threat scam, I don’t think will go along with the old sanctions, and they are sending that message with every plane load of dignitaries and businessmen going to Tehran. Another hint is some of the countries publicly saying they want an agreement completed in six months, not a yea, which is the dead line.
Iran is playing rope-a-dope as the State Dept people do their pitiful dance around the interim agreement terms, some of it just childish, like claiming they had dismantled some of Iran’s program, when they have just flicked the power switch off and held up some projects.
And claims of the sanctions having brought Iran to the negotiatint table are a cheap fabrication. They were always willing to negotiate, but not to grovel by agreeing to things no one else in the NPT had been asked to do.
As the US tries to snatch victory for a failed and dishonest foreign policy at the negotiating table, it will continue its bullying and keep getting the negative reaction that will bring from everywhere but Israel.
Iran’s Arak reactor core
This stupid threatening the Euro countries, all desperately needing any export trade, jobs and earnings they can get…with punishment for breaking the US sanctions rules, is a sign of a declining power in terms of respect.
Rather than accept responsibility for their failed policies they are trying to divert public attention off onto the ‘furriners’ who want to cheat on the sanctions. The sanctions themselves were ‘cheating’. The Iran nuclear bomb hoax was ‘cheating’. Give me a break!!
These on the spot interviews require being on your toes over the issues – or you take a pass
On Tuesday, a group of French businesspeople met with top Iranian trade officials. The French delegation’s visit to Iran came after major world powers reached an interim agreement with Iran on Nov. 24 to offer Tehran modest sanctions relief in return for Iran taking steps to limit its uranium enrichment activities. The deal called for negotiation of a full agreement within a year.
“It’s very interesting to see the steady stream of countries’ foreign ministers plus businesses heading to Iran filling up the Tehran hotels trying to get in line for all of the business that everyone’s anticipating with Iran opening up to the West,” said Jim W. Dean, managing editor at Veterans Today, in a phone interview with Press TV on Thursday.
However, US officials were quick to warn France against any possible business relationships with Iran and Secretary of State John Kerry called his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, to express concerns over the business delegation’s visit.
In an interview with CNN television on Wednesday, Kerry said that the French were put “on notice” that “they will be sanctioned if they do” business with Iran.
Dean told Press TV that “this ridiculous thing of using sanctions” is a tool that Washington employs in its “economic wars against the rest of the world.”