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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: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:18PM (2 children)
So what exactly do you propose doing about the non-angelic people that are around? Such as:
- The warlord going around and robbing everybody at gunpoint
- The person sneaking into other people's property to take stuff
- The person who just dumped toxic waste into the local water supply because that was easier than treating it with something that would prevent it from poisoning everybody else
- The person who has enslaved people, again at gunpoint
The fundamental problem with libertarianism is that its ideas have never been successfully tested against reality. And that's not because they've never been tried.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:43PM (1 child)
I wish I had a time machine so that I could send these doofuses back to The Gilded Age.
Big hint: It was only gilded for the super-rich.
N.B. The Long Depression (1873 - 1896) overlapped that.
...then came the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and later The National Labor Relations Act and other regulations that made things not completely terrible for Joe Worker.
...or if I could just have a transporter so that I could send them to modern-day Somalia.
People who think the "small government" thing is a great idea need to be exposed to the actual cases that exist|have existed and just how horrible they are|were.
...or maybe these ignorant fools could have cracked open a History textbook while they were in school.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:25AM
These are the doofuses that think public education is part of the moon matrix and they're so smart for avoiding as much of it ad they could.