Posted on 09/23/2016 10:19:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday blamed “Zionist pressure groups” for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling he said could undermine the Iran nuclear deal, JTA reported.
“The lack of compliance of the United States with the JCPOA in the last several months represents a flawed approach,” Rouhani said at the UN General Assembly, using the acronym for the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action, the formal name for the nuclear deal his country signed with world powers last year.
“The latest case in point is the United States Supreme Court ruling to seize billions of dollars of the Iranian regime’s assets,” he added. “This demonstrated that the Zionist pressure groups could go as far as having the U.S. Congress pass offensive legislation forcing the highest judicial institution to uphold peremptory violations of international law.” …
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Can we please stop calling it a “deal”? A deal requires an exchange of value, or to use the legal term, consideration.
What consideration did we get from Iran for lifting sanctions and giving them $1.7 billion (or is it $33 billion now)? As far as I can tell, we reveived NOTHING in exchange for agreeing to this “deal.”
And, by the way, when did Congress officially approve this “deal”?
Well, you know how misnomers are. Some people still call the theft of the Sudetenland the Munich “Agreement”.
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