Trump Announces Resumption of Iran Sanctions

[r3volution 3.0]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512817-trump-announces-snapback-of-sanctions-on-iran

President Trump announced Wednesday evening that his administration would notify the United Nations of plans to restore "virtually" all sanctions on Iran.

“Today, I am directing the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to notify the U.N. security council that the United States intends to restore virtually all of the previously suspended United Nations sanctions on Iran,” Trump said during remarks at a press briefing. “It’s a snapback, not uncommon.”

This is evidently the response to the recent defeat at the UN.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/world/middleeast/UN-Iran-embargo.html

The United States suffered an embarrassing diplomatic defeat on Friday when the United Nations Security Council rejected a proposal to indefinitely extend an arms embargo on Iran, with even America’s strongest allies refusing to buckle under pressure from the Trump administration to take a harder line.

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For months, Trump administration officials have warned that if the vote to extend the embargo failed, the United States would try to invoke a provision built into the Obama-era nuclear accord to punish any Iranian violations by reimposing all sanctions lifted when the deal took effect. That could include the prohibition of not just arms deals, but also oil sales and banking agreements. In theory, all U.N. members would have to adhere to the sanctions.

It'll be interesting to see who goes along with these sanctions.

I'll leaning toward no one (well, maybe the Dominican Republic, sole yes vote other than the US).

 

[r3volution 3.0]

The UK, France and Germany said the US did not have the legal right to trigger "snapback" sanctions because it pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53847650

The US threatened to impose 25% tariffs on cars to push Europeans to initiate proceedings against Iran for violating the nuclear deal, the German defence minister has confirmed.

P.S.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...riching-more-uranium-than-before-nuclear-deal

The second story's from earlier this year, just a reminder of what may be coming next.

 

[Occam's Banana]

For months, Trump administration officials have warned that if the vote to extend the embargo failed, the United States would try to invoke a provision built into the Obama-era nuclear accord [...]

The UK, France and Germany said the US did not have the legal right to trigger "snapback" sanctions because it pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.

Was going to say - where the hell does Trump get off invoking the terms of an agreement from which he withdrew the US ... ?

I suppose it could be a good sign that Trump apparently doesn't have the balls to push for a whole new sanctions regime "from scratch," but instead has to resort to this half-assed "have your cake and eat it, too" bullshit.

I wonder what Rand Paul has to say about this matter ...

 

[AngryCanadian]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512817-trump-announces-snapback-of-sanctions-on-iran



This is evidently the response to the recent defeat at the UN.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/world/middleeast/UN-Iran-embargo.html



It'll be interesting to see who goes along with these sanctions.

I'll leaning toward no one (well, maybe the Dominican Republic, sole yes vote other than the US).

This is evidently the response to the recent defeat at the UN.

Also anything to keep the NeoCons happy.

 

[PAF]

I wonder what Rand Paul has to say about this matter ...

Here is what Daniel McAdams has to say:

written by rpi staff
tuesday august 18, 2020


What's the US End Game With Iran?


RPI Director Daniel McAdams joins former US Senate foreign policy analyst (and RPI past conference speaker) Jim Jatras to discuss this week's moves by the Trump Administration to extend an arms embargo against Iran and to activate the "snap-back" sanctions provided for in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Iran deal) if Iran is found to be in violation of the deal. Will Trump's neocons get their way and start a war with Iran before the US November election? And if so what would that mean for Trump's re-election ambitions? The Debate starts at the 4:14 minute mark:

[video]https://media.urmedium.com/video/2020/08/18/637333162811645746video.mp4[/video]


http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archive...20/august/18/whats-the-us-end-game-with-iran/

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Was going to say - where the hell does Trump get off invoking the terms of an agreement from which he withdrew the US ... ?

I suppose it could be a good sign that Trump apparently doesn't have the balls to push for a whole new sanctions regime "from scratch," but instead has to resort to this half-assed "have your cake and eat it, too" bullshit.

That's about right.

It also shows that international law is a joke, as if we needed any further demonstration.

Keep that in mind as D.C. jabbers about China violating the norms of the rules based international order in the S. China Sea....

What they really mean, in the latter case, is that the USN wants to be able to close those waters to Chinese shipping.

...and the Chinese don't want to let them do that.

(the Chinese are going to close shipping to...China?)

It is for that, the right ability to close shipping to China, that the USN is running these freedom of navigation patrols.

...and risking war.

I wonder what Rand Paul has to say about this matter ...

I assume he's preparing pro-Trump pom-poms, because he's a fool.