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Why Is Pressure Mounting BTWN The U.S. and Iran?
2019-05-11
[Jerusalem Post] Iran announced this week that it is changing a key term of the Iran nuclear deal ‐ and plans to make an even more dramatic change in 60 days if partners don’t ease conditions.

The partners ‐ Europe chief among them ‐ complained, loudly. But so did an ex-partner: the United States.

The Trump administration immediately retaliated, expanding sanctions on Iran after Tehran said it would fiddle with a deal that the Trump administration thinks should be null and void.

"Hey, this is binary. You’re either in compliance or you’re not," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in Baghdad on Tuesday, a day before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced the change, and at the same time that the Trump administration was celebrating the one-year anniversary of pulling out of the deal. (Reports of Rouhani’s planned announcement had already emerged.)

Pompeo’s statements sound a little confusing to observers who have followed the Trump administration’s stance on the deal. Trump has called the agreement the "worst" deal ever.

So what’s going on?

The answer is that the Trump administration sees Iran’s behavior as another instance of why it pulled the U.S. out of the deal in the first place: the Iranian regime is not trustworthy.

Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Why Is Pressure Mounting BTWN The U.S. and Iran?

Radical Democrats and their Iranian allies.
Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310   2019-05-11 10:18  

#3  if a missile is fired, i doubt it would be a SCUD; more likely a Silkworm. much harder to detect and destroy. plus the iranians would just have to know they have only one shot before all hell comes crashing through their door. and roof. and walls.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-05-11 09:34  

#2  If they fire a SCUD at one US vessel or allied installation, it could be over very quickly. I don't believe the Orange Man will want to play games with this one.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-11 08:30  

#1  Suspect internal economic pressure on Persian regime is causing them to double-down.
Posted by: Threreque Glereger1817   2019-05-11 08:27  

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