Discussion: Pompeo Threatens 'The Strongest Sanctions In History' Against Iran

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Fucking Iranians! They need to be punished for not giving Trump any legitimate excuses for walking away from the nuclear agreement. That was a major inconvenience!

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Pompeo just throwing out some more red meat for the Trump deplorables. It’s a lot easier to talk a good story than trying to enact it. When the Russian’s and Chinese ignore the sanctions where will that get anyone.

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The “tough talk, go it alone” strategy worked so well for the George W. Bush administration…

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War.

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Pompeo Threatens ‘The Strongest Sanctions In History’ Against Iran

Sanctions for complying with a treaty. That’s a new one.

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Evangelical Christian crypto-end timer Pompeo announces strongest sanctions in history against Iran in order to get that Armeggedon train better on track.

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“I know our allies in Europe may try to keep the old nuclear deal going with Tehran. That is their decision to make,” Pompeo said. “They know where we stand.”

Until our Divine Leader changes his mind again.

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America is now the rogue super power
Shameful

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Strongest in history? That worked so well in Cuba. Finally got that regime change amirite Sec. Pompous?

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a steep list of demands Monday that he said should be included in a nuclear treaty with Iran

That will work so long as the World’s Best Negotiator is issuing a presidential fiat. Odds are very good that Iran, Germany, France and Britain would not sign that agreement.

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The only way to top that would be to also sanction your own allies for continuing to stick with the agreement that you yourself just walked away from.

Can’t wait until they try to argue that one at the WTO.

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tearing up agreements, spontaneously re-crafting standards of interaction, strong-arming others to inflict harm on your opponent - well we all know that this comes straight out of the book “Recipes for starting a War” …

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These guys are completely oblivious to, or ignorant of, 20th century history. What did go-it-alone bring us between l9l9-1939?!! But then precedent doesn’t cut any ice with ideologues.

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Yeah…manufacturing the failure of irans compliance with sanctions…in order to invade on behalf of Israel, SA and UAE… and in turn trump enriches himself and his family…

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Now that the North Korean deal is in the crapper, huh?

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Pompeo said. As he called for a better agreement to constrain Iran’s activities, he said the U.S. would “apply unprecedented financial pressure” to bring Tehran back to the table.

They never left the table, Phat Boi. You and Trump did. Fuck off to the Toccata and Fugue in d.

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Can anybody here tell me how he can deliver ‘The Strongest Sanctions In History’ with one country [ us unfortunately ] enacting them?

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Yeah. Then maybe the GOP will then sell them anti-aircraft missiles behind the scenes.

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The U.S. will be leading the whole world in applying these sanctions. Er, we have the backing of—who now? just the one country?—Israel, one of Iran’s strongest trading partners. This will be crippling to their economy for some reason.