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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: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:33PM (7 children)
Ahem. They had ZERO experience with foreign policy.
We had a peanut farmer, submariner, and non-border governor. We had a lawyer and non-border governor. We had an air force reserve pilot and governor. We had a "community organizer" (sounds like "unemployed") and short-term senator.
Career politicians are disconnected from the reality of participating in our economy. They are thus not qualified for the jobs they hold, unlike President Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:58PM (5 children)
...and short-term senator
You managed to leave out Professor of Constitutional Law.
...and a lot of good that experience did him when it came to administering civil liberties while he had the top gig. 8-(
It's true he didn't have any hands-on foreign policy experience and that showed with his choice of a warmonger Secretary of State (Killery).
Slick Willie's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was another warmonger.
There must be something in the Clinton family's drinking water that makes them so murderous (dropping bombs on children).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @11:16PM (4 children)
So, there you go. Not Angels, as the OP said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:23AM (3 children)
...and to no small degree, intellect.
Trump's cognitive abilities have always seemed to me to be average, at best.
...and Trumps knowledge base, as long-time Trump observer David Cay Johnston has noted, is extremely poor.
I'm thinking about The Chief Executive's raw decision-making abilities.
I would like the smartest, most knowledgeable person available to have the job.
(I'd like to see Trump's scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and compare them to the others who have been mentioned.)
...and that's before we even get into Trump's criminal activities, his narcissistic personality, and his governing-by-stunt thing.
I, and many others, can well imagine him starting a war in order to distract from an impeachment or indictment.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 25 2018, @01:47AM (2 children)
Yes, because there is a proven correlation between intelligence and the virtues, including humanity, good will, compassion, charity, and so much more.
Oh, wait. There really is no correlation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @03:29AM
That would be the one who agrees with me on everything, obviously.
Geeez, do I really have to spell out this stuff. 8-)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @03:37AM
Today's Dilbert strip made me smile. [dilbert.com]
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday April 25 2018, @03:18PM
Ahem. Trump had ZERO experience with politics.
In fact, one of his problems is that he has *too much* experience dealing with foreign powers (Russia).
Seeing as Trump is busy pissing off the majority of world powers, I'm not sure how much he learned, either. But if you think economics are what matters, has he improved anything there either? Citation needed?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"