{"id":45980,"date":"2019-05-07T07:11:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45980"},"modified":"2019-05-07T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:02:39","slug":"iran-expected-to-go-nuclear-by-breaching-parts-of-jcpoa-europe-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45980","title":{"rendered":"Iran Expected To &#8220;Go Nuclear&#8221; By Breaching Parts Of JCPOA, Europe Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-05-06\/iran-expected-go-nuclear-breaching-parts-jcpoa-europe-warns\">Iran Expected To &#8220;Go Nuclear&#8221; By Breaching Parts Of JCPOA, Europe Warns<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran is expected to&nbsp;<em>go nuclear<\/em>, by&nbsp;<strong>backing out of some of the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/sanctions\/iran\/jcpoa-restrictive-measures\/\">(JCPOA)<\/a>, at a sensitive time when Washington appears to be ramping up military readiness in response to what the White House says are credible threats against US assets in the Middle East by the Iranian regime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply put,<strong>&nbsp;the&nbsp;European Union is not capable of facing US sanctions<\/strong>, and despite some meager past efforts, such as the attempt to establish a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-01-31\/eu-launches-paris-based-instex-skirt-us-sanctions-iran\">SWIFT alternative,&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;EU initiatives to salvage the deal&nbsp;have been too little too late, as Iran has already hinted&nbsp;to some European officials.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/iran%20nuclear.jpg?itok=5Rceykdb\"><em>Image via CNN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a new report in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iran-poised-to-breach-parts-of-nuclear-agreement-europeans-warn-11557152721\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>&nbsp;Monday<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>European diplomats warned Monday that&nbsp;<strong>Iran is preparing to abandon parts of a landmark nuclear deal in response to new U.S. sanctions<\/strong>, a step that risks inflaming tensions after the Trump administration dispatched warships to the Persian Gulf to deter potential Iranian attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WSJ likens it to a &#8220;partial withdrawal&#8221; after other international signatories such as France and China tried to keep the deal alive following Trump&#8217;s ordered US withdrawal last May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Middle East based war reporter Elijah Magnier&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ejmalrai\/status\/1125355651755069440\">reports that<\/a>&nbsp;Iran&#8217;s leaders &#8220;seem convinced that the only way to stand against the US&nbsp;sanctions is to go nuclear, gradually, pulling out from the Nuclear deal as the US unilaterally did.&#8221; He said&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;President Hassan Rouhani&nbsp;is expected to announce an important step this week.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It appears the thinking in Tehran is that any future negotiation with the Trump administration are useless and pointless so long as White House rhetoric remains so aggressive, including the weeks ago formal terror designation of\u00a0Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), widely seen as a potential precursor to war.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Expected To &#8220;Go Nuclear&#8221; By Breaching Parts Of JCPOA, Europe Warns Iran is expected to&nbsp;go nuclear, by&nbsp;backing out of some of the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal&nbsp;(JCPOA), at a sensitive time when Washington appears to be ramping up military readiness in response to what the White House says are credible threats against US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[441,861,862,4318],"class_list":["post-45980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45981,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980\/revisions\/45981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}