…from PressTV, Tehran, from the .ir site, as the presstv.com is showing a window that the domain name has been seized by the US
[ Editor’s Note: This story is getting a bit confusing, with a subsequent Iran released story that over a 1000 specific sanctions have been agreed to. These must have been dealing with minor concerns, but I had no idea that the US would have invested so much time and effort in that level of sanctions pettiness, which seems to have taken on a life of its own.
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It begs the question of how did turning sanctions into a ‘more is always better’ tool take hold when we have the clear track record now that they just stimulated a huge effort on Iran’s part to increase its domestically produced military defensive and retaliation capability?
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Plus we have no idea how much Russian capability has been shared with Iran, which one could view Russia having a similar response, but a double pump one. It had to deal with NATO’s open march to the Russian western border, and then the EU killing trade with Moscow when the EU had a $100 billion positive Russian trade balance which covered the cost of all the gas annual gas imports. It seemed stupid at the time, and it still does.
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Russia was forced to fully modernize its outdated military, and greatly enhanced its strategic retaliatory strike capability. This all resulted in the American taxpayers being gouged for a huge ‘modernization’ of its nuclear forces, a problem which seems to have been specifically created to produce a decade of increased defense spending that could have been avoided but for the geopolitical grifters on our side.
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Meanwhile, the American public has been targeted in a macro verion of the children’s game of ‘All fall Down’, where one kid would be spun around in a circle of other kids until he or she fell when losing their equilibrium, completely helpless until their sensed came back.
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What I see going on is a greatly enchanced version of that game going on with much more serious consequences. Let me know what you think in the comments… Jim W. Dean ]
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Once we came a long long way, and then turned around and went back
First published … June 22, 2021
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Press TV has learned that the United States is still refusing to remove anti-Iran sanctions and honor the commitments required for its return to the 2015 nuclear deal after six rounds of talks in Vienna on a potential revival of the multilateral accord.
Giving a general picture of the US approach toward the nuclear deal under the new administration, sources close to the Vienna talks told Press TV on Tuesday that President Joe Biden was sticking to his predecessor Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.
According to the sources, Washington has so far refused to remove all sanctions on Iran, including congressional laws and executive orders as well as the regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Treasury Department, and the Judiciary, among others.
Among these sanctions are presidential executive Orders 12959, 13599, 13876 and 13499, along with the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), the visa law, Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act and the dollar U-Turn.
The sources said that the US administration was still keeping in place the arms embargo on Iran and the respective executive order issued by Trump.
This is while the UN arms ban on Iran was lifted last year under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and Security Council Resolution 2231, but the Trump administration reinstated the same embargo with an executive order.
The sources noted that the United States has not yet agreed to a complete removal of oil, banking and transportation sanctions in a way that there won’t be a need for periodic renewals.
According to the information obtained by Press TV, America had only proposed a temporary suspension of oil and banking sanctions for 120 or 180 days, after which Iran would need to have the consent of the US president again to continue its activities.
According to the sources, the US has not yet accepted a real verification of the sanctions removal, and that it has opposed the removal of the bans altogether and instead relayed the idea of a step-by-step approach.
Additionally, the US has not ruled out the possibility of another withdrawal from the JCPOA and has not provided a guarantee that it will not pull out from the agreement again, the sources said.
Washington has not yet accepted Tehran’s request for a guarantee that anti-Iran sanctions would not be re-imposed and that the so-called snapback provision in the JCPOA would not be invoked.
The sources said the United States keeps insisting on its excessive demands and the imposition of new nuclear commitments on Iran.
Press TV has been informed that the United States does not consider itself obliged to pay compensation for the damages caused by its withdrawal from the JCPOA and the imposition of illegal sanctions on Iran.
According to the information, Iran has urged the United States to avoid pressuring the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to reopen the so-called possible military dimensions (PMD) file on Iran’s nuclear program, something that has not yet been accepted by Washington.
The United States and Europe have called for the imposition of new commitments, even beyond the JCPOA such as negotiations on Iran’s regional policies in exchange for a temporary suspension of some sanctions, the sources said.
In recent months, envoys from Iran and the P4+1 group of countries have been engaged in the Vienna talks aimed at returning the US to compliance.
A US delegation is also in the Austrian capital, but it is not attending the discussions because the United States is not a party to the nuclear accord.
Trump abandoned the deal in May 2018 and re-imposed the anti-Iran sanctions that the JCPOA had lifted. He also placed additional sanctions on Iran under other pretexts not related to the nuclear case as part of the “maximum pressure” campaign.
Following a year of strategic patience, Iran resorted to its legal rights stipulated in Article 26 of the JCPOA, which grants a party the right to suspend its contractual commitments in case of non-compliance by other signatories, and let go of some of the restrictions imposed on its nuclear energy program.
Now, the Biden administration says it wants to compensate for Trump’s mistake and rejoin the deal, but it is showing an overriding propensity for maintaining some of the sanctions as a tool of pressure.
Tehran insists that all sanctions should first be removed in a verifiable manner before the Islamic Republic reverses its remedial measures.
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I’m reminded of that time someone running a newspaper once said to one of his field reporters, who had told him he couldn’t see any evidence of a “war”; the publisher told the reporter; you give me the pictures, and I’ll give you a war.” Or something like that; the names Hearst and Welles come to mind.
Anyway; my point is, if the powers that be really want a war, then you know they will have one. But if they really only want military spending, then they will have that as well.
Hopefully all they want is military spending. The danger lies in the fact that military buildups, more often than not, lead to military engagements; whether intentional or not.
I agree a hundred percent. The big spenders have always used this argument at some point that what’s the point of a buildup if you’re not going to use it, skating completely over the idea that justified its budget, being purely for defensive purposes.
Thanks newt.
Then we could look at it from a totally different angle.
Just supposing here; but if the powers-that-be actually believe in Darwin’s “evolution theory” (I mean it’s possible they do, and they aren’t just using it as mind control tool), then theoretically those smart guys have to realize at some point that war is counterproductive to sustainability.
In that case, there would logically, and eventually, have to be a peaceful end to all war.
Of course that’s a purely theoretical attempt at giving the evolutionists a fair shot at resolving the world’s predicament, and is in no way indicative of my own personal views.
I hear you but just the recent joblessness is a big recruit for the military all over the world. And we haven’t even gone towards full automation yet for it to created more recruits. The biggest welfare system in countries with the biggest budgets, is the military.
Eisenhower was saying it’s already too late.
The onerous sanctions that our dear leader Trump imposed on Iran were the result of a deal with Sheldon Adelson who had thrown “thirty pieces of silver” at him in 2016. It was also to placate his Christian Zionist base who see attacking Iran as the key to their crazy end-times eschatology. Now, Biden is tasked with putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. Sorry, Jim, can’t be done.
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I’m reminded of that time someone running a newspaper once said to one of his field reporters, who had told him he couldn’t see any evidence of a “war”; the publisher told the reporter; you give me the pictures, and I’ll give you a war.” Or something like that; the names Hearst and Welles come to mind.
Anyway; my point is, if the powers that be really want a war, then you know they will have one. But if they really only want military spending, then they will have that as well.
Hopefully all they want is military spending. The danger lies in the fact that military buildups, more often than not, lead to military engagements; whether intentional or not.
I agree a hundred percent. The big spenders have always used this argument at some point that what’s the point of a buildup if you’re not going to use it, skating completely over the idea that justified its budget, being purely for defensive purposes.
Thanks newt.
Then we could look at it from a totally different angle.
Just supposing here; but if the powers-that-be actually believe in Darwin’s “evolution theory” (I mean it’s possible they do, and they aren’t just using it as mind control tool), then theoretically those smart guys have to realize at some point that war is counterproductive to sustainability.
In that case, there would logically, and eventually, have to be a peaceful end to all war.
Of course that’s a purely theoretical attempt at giving the evolutionists a fair shot at resolving the world’s predicament, and is in no way indicative of my own personal views.
I hear you but just the recent joblessness is a big recruit for the military all over the world. And we haven’t even gone towards full automation yet for it to created more recruits. The biggest welfare system in countries with the biggest budgets, is the military.
Eisenhower was saying it’s already too late.
The onerous sanctions that our dear leader Trump imposed on Iran were the result of a deal with Sheldon Adelson who had thrown “thirty pieces of silver” at him in 2016. It was also to placate his Christian Zionist base who see attacking Iran as the key to their crazy end-times eschatology. Now, Biden is tasked with putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. Sorry, Jim, can’t be done.
It can’t be done because of this money pit:
https://youtu.be/HscBqnK1P90
I love the way they pronounce Khamas or Khizbulla. And I’m sure on their spare times they read Khemingway.
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