Posted on 05/21/2018 4:45:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany is leading the charge to rescue the Iran deal and the economic inroads German and European companies have made into the restricted economy since 2016.
EU leaders are keen to salvage the deal shaped by Obamas administration after President Trump on May 12th pulled the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The deal, in which Iran committed to denuclearize in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, was signed by Iran, the US and the international community in 2015.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and a host of other EU leaders have held emergency meetings to try and save the JCPOA, arguing that companies should be able to make their own decisions about whether to trade with Iranian entities many of which are linked to religious foundations and political institutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran. [ ]
Iranian Foreign Minister Jawad Sharif said the EUs desire to save the deal, however, is not enough. Sharif told the Iranian state news agency that the EU must take practical steps to increase its investment in Iran, reports Munich-based daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Germany is one of Irans most important EU trade partners, according to a report in German online news site ZDF, although Germanys exports in 2016 to Iran accounted for less than 4 billion.
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Germany, France and the U.K. can go to hell. They all voted at the U.N. against the U.S. moving it’s embassy to Jerusalem. I hope they get what they’ve got coming to them for their hatred, and their betrayal.
The feckless Europeans merely want to avoid get caught by the commercial sanctions that the US will impose on Iran - and Iran's trading partners.
To hell with all of them.
As I’ve been saying for a long time, the Germans’ just want to pocket more of the mullah’s blood money. They’ve got to pay for all that socialism and all those millions of 3rd world leeches they let into the country in the last few years somehow.
Obama called it an “executive agreement”. There is no such thing under US law. Never mind the communistic mess that the UNSC is.
Besides, I suspect that truthorfiction.com didn’t read the “agreement” either.
They have to scramble or else Iran will snitch about the bribes they paid the Third World EU leaders!
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