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8 hours ago, Greybeard said:

   Consider how much this means it would be a joke.  It would be almost as bad as giving it to someone for doing nothing like Obama did for his Nobel Prize.  

FIFY

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Weak 

 

https://news.yahoo.com/iran-sanctions-us-versus-world-013426119.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZHJ1ZGdlcmVwb3J0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMiihIYYZmd7E9xCVb9nBS09mRsA0fORb0mmxFC1PDSr_3azneElEk2DQaLIbzQy54jANQk2W9_h_ARdTLbNXKeU1kTCjYuEam-Qiz5vI6K6Kz8KQKiD_xkwqEiB7iYGVGhunu66zNjkiJ-NabbEkoa3RVCVFKxGSuPhb4eSFGzW

 

Iran said Sunday its arch-foe the United States is facing "maximum isolation" after major powers dismissed a unilateral US declaration that UN sanctions on Tehran were back in force.

Washington said the sanctions had been re-activated under the "snapback" mechanism in a landmark 2015 nuclear treaty -- despite Washington having withdrawn from the deal.

As other signatories cast doubt on the move having any legal effect, Washington threatened to "impose consequences" on states failing to comply.

But Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said a concerted campaign by Washington to pressure Tehran had backfired.

"We can say that America's 'maximum pressure' against Iran, in its political and legal aspect, has turned into America's maximum isolation," he said in a televised cabinet meeting.

The sanctions in question had been lifted when Iran, the UN Security Council's five permanent members (Britain, China, France, Russia and the US) and Germany signed the 2015 treaty on Iran's nuclear programme, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

But President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the JCPOA in 2018, saying the deal -- negotiated by his predecessor Barack Obama -- was insufficient. 

He also stepped up Washington's own sanctions as part of a "maximum pressure" campaign against the Islamic republic.

The US insists it is still a participant in the agreement -- but only so it can activate the snapback option, which it announced on August 20.

Virtually every other UNSC member disputes Washington's ability to execute this legal pirouette, and the UN body has not taken the measure any further.


- 'No legal effect' - 

On Sunday, France, Germany and Britain issued a joint statement saying Washington's "purported notification" was "incapable of having any legal effect".

Russia also said Washington's "illegitimate initiative and actions" could not have "international legal consequences" for others.

China's mission to the UN tweeted that the US move was "devoid of any legal, political or practical effect", adding that it was "time to end the political drama by the US".

 


 

Posted
3 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

Wonder which country is joining the peace accords now... 

 

Possibly related to this:

 

 

 

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President Trump's address to the U.N. was recorded yesterday and shown this morning. He took a huge bat to China.

 

 

There are some interesting comments about weapons we have towards the end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And, of course:

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Boom

 

 

I wonder how much the whole "we're tired of paying you to defend your country while competing with you economically" played into this? 

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