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President Rouhani warns that White House failure to uphold Iran nuclear deal would prompt firm reaction from Tehran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on US President Donald Trump to uphold the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, or "face severe consequences".
In a televised speech, Rouhani said the "Iranian government will react firmly" if the White House fails to "live up to their commitments" under the agreement.
The warning comes weeks in advance of a May 12 deadline for Trump to renew the deal.
The US president has previously said he would scrap the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which he has called the "worst deal in history", unless "a better option" is presented to him.
[...] The landmark deal reached in Lausanne, Switzerland in April 2015 with China, Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany and the US offered Iran more than $110bn a year in sanctions relief and a return to the global economy in exchange for halting its drive for a nuclear weapon.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:11PM (3 children)
Nope. Exploitation of The Working Class by a separate Oligarchical Ownership Class is absolutely not necessary for anything.
There are thousands of worker-owned cooperative around the globe that demonstrate the fact.
The violent mess that USA has made of the globe is proof enough for anyone not wearing bottle-bottom rose-colored glasses that Capitalism and the resulting greedy, grasping Oligarchy is NOT the way to go.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:17PM (1 child)
This. There was and still is a massive amount of violence perpetrated to further capitalist interests. These tangentially benefitted the US as a whole, but then globalism came and the capitalists realized they could make a lot of money putting labor markets against each other. Immoral decisions made for the bottom line.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:31PM
There was and still is a massive amount of violence perpetrated to further capitalist interests
Yup. Major General Smedley Butler, who came up from the rank of Private and was twice decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor, looking back on his years in the Marine Corps said in his book "War is a Racket"
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:38PM
You don't understand.
Capitalism is just one of many possible forms of establishing a pecking order or power pyramid in human society. If we concentrate just on the methods, we are missing the big picture behind them.
When capitalism had been rejected before, the hierarchy nevertheless emerged again, and it had even more unpleasant methods of assuring its internal structural integrity then capitalism. Ditto for socioeconomic systems preceding the rise of capitalism. There may be other possible alternatives, but the question remains: how is the power distributed and deployed?
So, if you want to change the world, you better start thinking about why humans need to control other humans, to counter and subvert others' will, and what would make that superfluous and non-rewarding. Once that riddle is solved, that would be the end not only of capitalism, but also of any other system of subjugation. But, I don't promise you will like what you may find out - there is a reason we are living like this and not like that. But then again, if it becomes technically possible, there is a very real possibility that capitalism will get retired, but I am afraid that once the carrots are removed from the toolbox, only the sticks will remain in it for us (erm, for the humans living at the time).