Posted on 01/13/2020 3:48:09 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
France and Russia have a shared desire to safeguard Iran's nuclear deal, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday.
Macron said in a statement he had a phone call on Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Leaders of Britain, France and Germany on Sunday called on Iran to return to full compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and refrain from further violence.
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I can understan Putin’s desire but Macron is a total Maroon, with macadamias!
Macron is no man. He is a wimp, a POS, pure trash etc.
BS, they want to protect the regime, and sweet trade deals. They couldn’t care less about the nuke deal, nor the people of Iran.
Putin is all about the rubles. With oil prices remaining low, he needs the weapon revenue streams to continue to flow.
That ship has already sailed. Time to negotiate a real nuclear deal - Trump style.
The U. S. has been out for several years. Iran was violating the agreement. It wasn’t good for the West. Now Macron pipes up, “Oh please, lets save it.”
France won’t get it until it has an Iranian nuke about 20 miles above it’s surface incoming.
Then it will quickly fault the U. S., the good folks who tried to prevent Iran from getting that bomb in the first place.
Why is it we have to act like the parent to the petulant children on ‘the Continent’? Sadly, I think we should rename it ‘the Incontinent’.
Buzz off Putin.
There is only 15 months left on it. What are they trying to preserve?
Macron et al (Putin excepted) want to make as much money with Iran as they can before Iran is ready to nuke Paris. I guess these elite fellows want to grab as much gold as they can to enjoy in their billion dollar bunkers in Greenland or wherever when the European cities are replaced with glowing craters.
“Gotta find a use for that American uranium and those Osirak designs”
Hi.
“France and Russia have a shared desire to safeguard Iran’s nuclear deal”
We do too Macron. So, we need to nuke Bashir and Nantez.
Problem solved.
5.56mm
Please...pretty please...pretty please with sugar on top.
RUS has largely been behind, and building Iran’s nuclear infrastructure all along, since 1998.
There are a number of nuclear sites the West does not even want to acknowledge.
There are significant Russian enclaves in Iran, proximal to nuclear amd other WMD class development sites. Some are very sizeable and almost exclusively Russian.
Quazi Russian civilian/military enclaves are being increasingly seen in Cyprus, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Eritria, and HOA as well.
From the new Russian naval base in Eritria, they have been “assisting” the Iranian backed Huthi’s against Saudi Arabia. At least one of our two uav’s shot down over the Red Sea, was tracked with Russian 5th gen targeting system integrated into old SA-6 platform, as the SA-6 missile itself is very capable. man systems are undergoing this type of modification, as it is a cheaper way to make a system much more lethal.
In many cases, they are rapidly building out military UGF’s, LOC’s, and military storage infrastructure (for rebuilt armor), ISR, missile, air Force, and naval defense systems.
Regarding Iran, Russian weapons engineers have been using Iran for decades. On multiple occasions, I have personally watched footage of various U.S. uparmored vehicles being destroyed by experimental Russian munitions tested on us in Iraq, and also tested in Afghanistan (from Iran), with Russian engineers discussing what was happening in slow motion. They wanted us to see them blowing up our armor and personnel. Moscow used Iranian spies, smuggling routes, and poc’s to know where placement of experimental munitions needed to go, which would destroy our vehicles and most of the time kill our personnel.
It’s hard to tell what is going on here with France, but Macron probably playes into Moscows hands.
In the macro picture, Moscow absolutely needs to control the energy flow into the EU, to create EU dependency, in order to then be able to determine EU economic, finance, foreign, and military policy (to break up NATO). Not that I am big on NATO.
If Moscow can accomplish this, they will control the most valuable aggregated economy in the world, and by default be the most determinate factor in total world trade.
But they have to control ME energy and the Suez to accomplish this.
To even do this, Russia has to defeat or keep Ukraine destabilized or marginalized. They need Ukrainian steel (which they have largely taken), and to control Ukraines very large gas reserves, (through corruption), in order to keep control of the dynamically militarized springboard of all efforts in the Eastern Mediterranean and ME, the springboard being Russia’s Southern Military District, Crimea, and the Black Sea.
This is the macro picture, and is the goal behind what is happening across the region.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Jordan to a lesser extent, are the unavoidable block, which can disrupt Russian goal of EU economic and policy supremacy.
Sent from my phone - with many of mistakes.
One of the most recent threats Russia has made to Italy and France, is literally threatening another Syrian/Guatemalan style refugee crisis, by quickly sending 3 to 5 million refugees into Italy and France through Tripoli, if they don’t stop supporting President Trump and U.S. efforts in Iraq and the southern ME, or they stop supporting the JCPOA with Iran, (even though it was never ultimately signed by actual leadership of Iran).
Again, Iran truly never stopped the activity which precipitated the fake “western” agreement to begin with.
Only ironic to those not really following what has happened, or the willfully blind... One of the things the JCPOA did do, was actually make it easier for Russian, Chinese, and NOKO port shipments into and from Iran.
*HOW IN THE WORLD DID THIS HAPPEN ??
Because of the JCPOA agreement, and the Obama/Clinton/Putin/Kerry/Biden White Hut, the U.S. agreed to largely stand aside and look the other way, giving policing over to pro Iranian, multinational UN “observers” and “policing” of the agreement. All for a fake agreement with Iran.
Since then, and adverse to the fake agreement, CENTCOM became immediately aware of the game, but with Obama in office, had to be much more careful with their efforts. All it could really do, was watch ships travelling in and out of Iranian ports, and try not to get caught doing more stand-off observation.
**In light of this, the JCPOA was truly done for the benefit of Moscow and Beijing.**
France and Italy know *VERY WELL* the refugee threat, (as does the EU), which have yet been wavering in support of the the JCPOA. They have actually been threatened. Russia and China want a more robust EU adherence to the fake JCPOA, so to cause the U.S. to militarily back off Iranian adjacent shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf.
This is all going yo get much more dangerous and interesting.
Ummm - one of the reasons Trump scrapped the deal is because it gave Iran an uncontested path to nukes...just had to wait until Obama was out for a few years so some other President would have to deal with them...
“Leaders of Britain, France and Germany on Sunday called on Iran to return to full compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and refrain from further violence”
or else, right?
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