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Iran To Trump: Stay In Nuclear Deal Or "Face Severe Consequences"

posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 24 2018, @07:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-sure-that-threats-will-work dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @10:21PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @10:21PM (#671380)

    He got in because it's all about money and connections. Meritocracy doesn't exist even in academia.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @11:09PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @11:09PM (#671408)

    The other day, I heard David Cay Johnston on Pacifica Radio (you're unlikely to hear him on Lamestream Media).
    He mentioned how previous candidates had gotten the third degree from The Fourth Estate e.g they knew the name of the guys with whom O'Bummer had smoked dope as a student.
    With Trump, there was obviously none of that.

    In the article linked in my root comment, he says

    Remember that campaign reporters cover the horse race. They focus on the sizzle and not the steak. Everybody was so taken by his unusual campaign that they just forgot about the basics.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:22AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:22AM (#671433)

      Obviously the trump supporters forgot the basics as well. Let's see, calls to commit homicide / genocide, adultery, theft, claiming he could gun down someone; yeah the basics don't apply when a candidate is running on populism during a country's rough patch.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:04AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:04AM (#671465)

        Those weren't forgotten, they're what got him elected. "He's just like us", etc.