The problem for them is that Trump has threatened to apply tough secondary sanctions on banks and companies doing business with Iran. Few corporate chiefs would risk losing the right to operate in America, the world’s biggest market. So even if the French, German and British governments would like to keep their side of the nuclear bargain, most companies would be reluctant to enter into contracts with Iran, or continue with existing ones.
This is a point Netanyahu made with some relish during an interview with Evan Davis, the lead presenter on Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship news programme. According to him, the deal was already dead: which company would forsake doing business in a one trillion dollar economy for trading with Iran, a country with an economy just 3-4 per cent of America’s?
When asked how he would prevent Iran from returning to its nuclear enrichment programme, Netanyahu replied "All options are open", a clear warning that he was still itching to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. And while Obama had pre-empted him by signing a historic deal with Iran, there are no such restraints in place with Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
in the White House. If anything, his approach towards Iran is even more aggressive than his Israeli friend’s.
Davis went on to ask how the conflict with the Paleostinians would end if the Israelis were not prepared to make any concessions over Jerusalem, statehood and the return of land illegally usurped to create new settlements. Netanyahu made it clear that illusory sovereignty for Paleostinians wasn’t on the cards. "Call it what you like, autonomy or self-rule, but we will retain control over borders and security."
Citing the ineffectual, home-made rockets fired from Gazoo, he declared that Israeli borders had to be protected, making light of the scores of Paleostinians rubbed out by Israeli army snipers in recent weeks. Insisting that most of them were Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, "terrorists", he went on to claim that the civilians killed were being used as human shields.
Netanyahu’s trump card was saved for the end of the interview when he gloated over the fact that many Arab states now had good relations with Israel, and this shift in attitudes was a huge regional game-changer. It is true that Iran is more isolated than ever, and countries like Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...that partly funded Hamas, have withdrawn their support. Even the Paleostinian Authority under the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...has stopped paying Israel for supplying Gazoo with electricity, thereby causing further hardship to the beleaguered people forced to survive under siege in wretched conditions.