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'Sad Day for Warmongers' as UN Finds Iran in Total Compliance with Nuke Deal

On what one observer called "a sad day for warmongers," the United Nations declared Friday that Iran is fully adhering to the nuclear deal reached in 2015, and that inspectors will not go looking for infractions at the request of the Trump administration.

Trump and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, have regarded Iran and the agreement with suspicion, with Trump threatening to withhold certification of Iranian compliance, and saying in an interview in July, "If it was up to me, I would have had them noncompliant 180 days ago."

Haley traveled to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s headquarters last week to demand inspections of Iran's military sites—but presented no evidence of suspicious activity by the Iranians. IAEA officials reported that they would not be going on a "fishing expedition" to find Iran guilty of noncompliance. "We're not going to visit a military site...just to send a political signal," an IAEA official told Reuters, saying, "If [the Trump administration wants] to bring down the deal, they will. We just don't want to give them an excuse to."

The IAEA found that Iran has honored the commitments it made in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), brokered by the Obama administration. Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program's capabilities while the U.S. and five other world powers eased economic sanctions on the country....

Neocon Don.  Kind of interesting since Clinton wouldn't have done this.

That was prior to the deal.  And she wouldn't have pulled out of a deal concluded by her immediate Democratic predecessor, which would have split her party.

NDPP wrote:

Iran Deal Not A Bargaining Chip: Trump Proved US Can Break Agreements At Any Time, Moscow Says

https://on.rt.com/8prn

 

Netanyahu Congratulates Trump For 'Courageous Decision' To Decertify Iran Nuclear Deal

https://t.co/0Qay5PY2we

What the hell is Trump's game???? Or Netanyahu's? Don't these freekin incompetent clowns know that China is now the economic power house that at any given time has the power to collapse the US economy?

Looks like the US is shooting itself in the foot. Taken from the above link:

The Russian Foreign Ministry has condemned Donald Trump’s refusal to adhere to the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, saying that the move poses a threat to international security and nuclear non-proliferation, and exposes the US as an unreliable partner.

The US as an unreliable partner. This comment resonates with multi billion dollar investors! Coupled  with Trump's administration faulting on NAFTA, investment couldn't flow fast enough into Asia! China Russia and India gave the US all the rope Trump wants to hang himself with. 

Here's a link closer to what's realy going on with Iran

http://thebricspost.com/iran-not-likely-to-back-away-from-china-but/#.We...

Iran’s strategic location on the Silk Road is a linchpin to Beijing’s initiative, particularly due to its access to the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf, which falls under the guise of its 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

The Chinese government is financing the construction of Pakistan’s part of the long-awaited Iran-Pakistan Pipeline, known as the “Peace Pipeline.” Iran recently became a founding member of the World Bank’s Chinese rival, the Asian Infrastructural Investment Bank (AIIB).

Iran also attempted to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in recent years, but was rejected due to sanctions. Now with the JCPOA officially being implemented, it is likely that Tehran can finally receive full membership in the SCO.

Any threat of war from Israel or the US against Iran is a stupid idiot yahoo joke! Threatining war against Iran is to only make yourself look like a stupid clown and invite trade to flow away from your country and never come back!

This is making me really sad. I was hoping I'd get some news from the Khadir-Machouf clan or other progressive Iranians here. I'll try finding more news at progressive labour sites... certainly not from Iranian Press TV about this domestic story.

Iran kind of reminds me of Thailand. In the sence of the political unrest. On the surface, it seems to me to be about economics. Or some how related directly or inderectly to.

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Canada should not be vocaly biased. This can be defined as interfering.

And typically is, by governments who'd much rather that everyone just zip their lip and let them do as they wish.  Solidarity, and all that.

Here is Québec MNA Amir Khadir's statement in support of the movement of the Iranian people, but also against the false friends in power in the US, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere who are just trying to "fish in troubled waters"

https://www.facebook.com/AmirKhadir/posts/1015595942984906

Amir Khadir

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‼️ Les amis, le peuple iranien a besoin de notre appui devant ses nombreux ennemis.

Poussés par la hausse vertigineuse des prix des denrées de base, par le chômage et par la corruption de l'élite religieuse au pouvoir depuis 4 décennies, des centaines de milliers d'Iraniennes et d'Iraniens manifestent depuis six jours dans près d'une cinquantaine de villes aux quatre coins du pays.

Ce nouveau sursaut de contestation du pouvoir corrompu des mollahs traduit la colère juste des secteurs les plus défavorisés de la population iranienne, surtout en province, dans les villes ouvrières et dans les régions où vivent les minorités ethniques et religieuses

Cette révolte remet plus que jamais en cause la légitimité de la dictature du clergé. Le gouvernement menace de recourir à une répression violente pour se maintenir au pouvoir, comme cela s'est produit en 2009.

Le peuple iranien a d'autant plus besoin de notre solidarité que ses ennemis sont multiples.

À la violence subie aux mains de l'appareil de répression et de torture des mollahs s'ajoute désormais la menace d'intervention étrangère des États-Unis et ses alliés. Les États-Unis, Israël et l'Arabie saoudite mènent depuis 25 ans une politique de déstabilisation permanente de la région, dont les peuples comptent par millions les victimes des guerres ainsi fomentées en Afghanistan, en Irak, en Syrie, au Liban, en Libye et au Yémen.

Donald Trump et ses alliés versent des larmes de crocodile sur le sort du peuple iranien, mais ils veulent en fait pêcher en eaux troubles et affaiblir des peuples dont les pays regorgent de ressources énergétiques sauvagement convoitées.

Sorry, I haven't found one and unfortunately don't have time to translate anything other than the sample chapter of a book I'm working away on now. Google should be understandable. I assure all that the Khadir-Machouf clan (Amir and Nima's extended families) have absolutely no sympathies and nothing to do with either Israeli aggression or US imperialism. There are PROGRESSIVE Iranians in many diaspora countries who are concerned about their fellow Iranians back home and want better working conditions as well as more freedom and respect for women and for all people.

It is true that imperialism will always try to co-opt progressive movements in countries of the periphery, but it does not follow that those movements are all shams or creations of the imperial centre. Such a conspiratorial outlook denies the agency of Iranians and other peoples. Iran has become a very highly educated country (in that sense, the "Islamic republic" was actually progressive, especially in terms of rising educational rates for young women and for rural and working-class youth) and there is a thirst for better living conditions and more democracy.

In my case, I wasn't referring to Canadian liberals, but to Irano-Canadian (or more precisely, Irano-QuébécoisE) socialists. Whom I've encountered countless times at demonstrations, vigils, meetings and conferences protesting such manifestations of US imperialism and Israeli agression as the Gulf and Iraq wars, the Gaza and Lebanon assaults, as well as interference in American countries south of the US, from Central America to the Cono Sur.

I've never been to Iran, nor do I speak Farsi. Amir Khadir and Nima Machouf were both born in Iran, and not only them but their parents, aunts, uncles and cousins have been involved in decades in protests against both the Shah and the mullahs. They are not pro-imperialist, nor are they ignorant imperialist dupes, far from it.

The US treatment of the Iranian nuclear disarmament deal is just the kind of incentive the North Koreans need to sit down at the bargaining table to strike a deal with the US. After all they can see how well that has gone for Iran.

Many people are protesting the Kinder Morgan pipeline in BC and they elected municipal, provincial and federal politicians who all say no to the oil oligarchy's plans. Should Iran, Russia and China help those freedom fighters overthrow the ruling oligarchy fronted by the corrupt PM Trudeau, himself a member of that oiligarchy?

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To me their circumstances sound very complex and sensitive. I believe it would be better to not get involved. Just continue trading and moving towards normalizing relations between Canada and Iran. Since Canada's relation with the US gives Canada a bit of a black eye, Canada is no position to preach to Iran and doing so would only work against normalizing our relations.