{"id":46091,"date":"2019-05-13T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46091"},"modified":"2019-05-13T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:30:42","slug":"iran-squeezed-between-imperial-psychos-and-european-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46091","title":{"rendered":"Iran Squeezed Between Imperial Psychos and European Cowards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/05\/13\/iran-squeezed-between-imperial-psychos-and-european-cowards\/\">Iran Squeezed Between Imperial Psychos and European Cowards<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Berlin, Paris and London assumed Tehran could not afford to leave the JCPOA even if it was not receiving any of the promised economic rewards. \u00a0Now the EU3 are facing the hour of truth, writes Pepe Escobar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>T<\/strong>he Trump administration unilaterally cheated on the 2015 multinational, UN-endorsed JCPOA, or Iran nuclear deal. It has imposed an illegal, worldwide financial and energy blockade on all forms of trade with Iran \u2014 from oil and gas to exports of iron, steel, aluminum and copper. For all practical purposes, and in any geopolitical scenario, this is a declaration of war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Successive U.S. governments have ripped international law to shreds; ditching the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is only the latest instance. It doesn\u2019t matter that Tehran has fulfilled all its commitments to the deal \u2014 according to UN inspectors. Once the leadership in Tehran concluded that the U.S. sanctions tsunami is fiercer than ever, it decided to begin partially withdrawing from the deal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Hassan Rouhani was adamant: Iran has not left the JCPOA \u2014 yet. Tehran\u2019s measures are legal under the framework of articles 26 and 36 of the JCPOA \u2014 and European officials were informed in advance. But it\u2019s clear the EU3 (Germany, France, Britain), who have always insisted on their vocal support for the JCPOA, must work seriously to alleviate the U.S.-provoked economic disaster to Iran if Tehran has any incentive to continue to abide by the agreement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Protests_after_US_decision_to_withdraw_from_JCPOA_around_former_US_embassy_Tehran_-_8_May_2018_25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Protests_after_US_decision_to_withdraw_from_JCPOA_around_former_US_embassy_Tehran_-_8_May_2018_25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36109\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protests in front of former U.S. embassy in Tehran after U.S. decision to withdraw from JCPOA, May 8, 2018. (Hossein Mersadi via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia and China \u2014 the pillars of Eurasia integration, to which Iran adheres \u2014 support Tehran\u2019s position. This was discussed extensively in Moscow by Sergey Lavrov and Iran\u2019s Javad Zarif, perhaps the world\u2019s top two foreign ministers.\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 Squeezed Between Imperial Psychos and European Cowards Berlin, Paris and London assumed Tehran could not afford to leave the JCPOA even if it was not receiving any of the promised economic rewards. \u00a0Now the EU3 are facing the hour of truth, writes Pepe Escobar. The Trump administration unilaterally cheated on the 2015 multinational, UN-endorsed [&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":[130,6963,2578,441,25708,20100,4076,694,9845,2662,826,827,3142,843],"class_list":["post-46091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-consortium-news","tag-hassan-rouhani","tag-iran","tag-javad-zarif","tag-jcpoa","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-russia","tag-sergey-lavrov","tag-tehran","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091","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=46091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46092,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091\/revisions\/46092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}