Posted on 10/15/2017 9:02:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
France on Saturday urged the US Congress not to rip up the Iran nuclear deal, after President Donald Trump decertified Iran’s compliance with the 2015 agreement.
“We strongly hope that Congress, which is now responsible for a possible rupture, does not jeopardize the deal,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in an interview with AFP.
“If we denounce a deal that has been respected, it will set a dangerous precedent,” particularly in the context of negotiations with North Korea, Le Drian said, echoing other signatories of the Iran deal Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia.
On Friday, Trump ignored the advice of worried allies and kicked the fate of the landmark 2015 deal to Congress, which he told to address its “many serious flaws”. […]
Asked if Europeans would be willing to impose sanctions against Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, as Trump has requested, Le Drian said “we can talk about it”.
More generally he said that recent decisions by the US — to withdraw from UNESCO and the Paris climate agreement, as well as jeopardizing the Iran deal — have called multilateralism into question. …
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Always a good idea to follow Frances lead in international politics.... eye roll..
“If we denounce a deal that has been respected, it will set a dangerous precedent,”
What if we denounce a deal that has been disrespected?
Does anyone really think Iran has lived up to it?
Yep. All those sacrifices, mostly young white males
And the ingratitude that now exists. Be they European pansies or Americans who forgot who liberated the concentration camps
Follow the money ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/business/energy-environment/iran-total-france-gas-energy.html
Breathtaking the naivete of Macaroni.
Well, that settles it...
Trump says Iran is not in compliance.
Congress, prove Trump is wrong
France, Germany, the UK et al. have been doing business with Iran for quite a while now.
They must stand to lose money.
Of course! French businesses do NOT wish to lose part of that $150,000,000,000 paid to Iran’s Muslim Mullah’s by Buraq Hussein Obama.
Have some freedom fries, bitches.
Somebody remembers! When I deployed in 2003 the mess tent did feature Freedom Fries.
Back home there was also Freedom Vanilla ice cream.
Just why is it that everyone in the world seems to know what is in this “deal” except the American Citizen??? The traitors who put this into play should be brought to Righteous Justice for their treachery.
The irony is that not only did they apparently originate in Belgium as a sort of substitute for fried fish, but the name in French is “pommes frites” (or “fried potato”, literally “fried apple” though since the French term for “potato” is “pommes de terre” or “earth apples”).
They were interviewing someone who supported the Iran deal on the radio the other day. He was saying that if Iran was developing nuclear weapon capability, they would be doing it at their military bases. Since we have been inspecting their military bases in accordance with the deal, we can be assured they are not developing nuclear weapons.
That so many in the west could be this delusional only shows that the comparisons to "peace for our time" are completely accurate.
France is obviously as well endowed as a plastic Ken doll. Just because THEY are spineless pushovers doesn’t mean we have to be spineless pushovers. They advocate a roll over on their back and present their tummy position, yet would be the first to squeak for our help if attacked.
Congress has no power over treaties. The “advice and consent” clause refers to the Senate, which, frankly, due to the Seventeenth Amendment, is most likely invalid due to the Senators no longer being representatives of the states they come from. Still in the President’s court.
Cheese-eating monkeys at it again.
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