“I am Yahweh. I do not change. I am why Jacob’s descendants are not destroyed.” (Malachi 3: 6)
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NPR—U.S. Negotiator’s Plan for Iran Nuclear Deal: Tweak, Don’t Delete
A top U.S. foreign policy official says the Trump administration seeks to add to the nuclear deal with Iran, rather than eliminate it.
Brian Hook, the State Department’s policy planning director, tells NPR the goal is now a “supplemental agreement” that imposes new restrictions on Iran and “would address a lot of the problems that we have with the existing deal.”
Hook is leading U.S. negotiations with European allies to address perceived flaws in the deal, which lifts sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on the country’s nuclear development.
In an interview with Morning Edition, Hook detailed the U.S. diplomatic strategy as a deadline nears for action. The Trump administration has until May 12 to renew sanctions relief for Iran, as the deal requires.
President Trump has continually railed against the agreement — signed in 2015 by the Obama administration along with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia. He has threatened the U.S. might withdraw but said Tuesday “nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters Saturday it is “highly unlikely” Iran will keep the deal with the remaining world powers if the U.S. backs out.
Rather than let the deal unravel, Hook and European diplomats are discussing new measures that might persuade Trump to keep it.
“It’s common for one [arms] deal to be improved upon or supplanted by another deal,” Hook said.
Iran’s Zarif says his country is not interested in negotiating new restrictions—but strikingly, the U.S.-led diplomatic effort does not contemplate negotiating with Iran. Hook said Western diplomats instead are discussing new measures they might jointly impose on Iran.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
The fact that President Trump wants to tweak the Iran nuclear deal rather than eliminate it is lost on “liberal progressive” nincompoops and other Trump-hater liars.
If they know the facts, they won’t share them because facts contradict their narrative. I doubt that they know the facts. Typically, “liberal progressives” just parrot what they are told.
In other words, “liberal progressives” tend to be ignoramuses. Since they are typically Democrats, I could say that they are Dumb Asses, but I don’t want to offend my readers, so I won’t say it.
Lately, I’ve noticed that a lot of low-IQ “liberal progressives” in the U.S. have grown fond of parroting that President Trump is a narcissistic, unintelligent moron. They are deluded. They are what they accuse the president of being: narcissistic, unintelligent morons.
Mohammad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, doesn’t understand that there is a new sheriff in town. His loud-mouthed bombasity (that’s probably not right grammatically, but I like it) worked with Kerry and Obama. It won’t work with Pompeo and Trump.
Iranian leaders had better learn the new rules fast.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
