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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @11:59PM (11 children)
the world has always existed in a state of anarchy
You are a complete fool.
For starters, get yourself a dictionary and look up words that you don't understand--or that you think you understand BUT CLEARLY DON'T.
Since the first cities--perhaps even the first villages--there has been heirarchy.
Invariably, someone--or a group of someones, sometimes called "elders"--has been in charge.
In ancient Athens, the citizens gathered and made decisions.
In the Roman Republic, there were guys who were chosen to rotate through the job of leader.
Democracy went into decline for many centuries while superstitious nonsense ("the divine right of kings") took over.
USA brought a form of Democracy back into being in the 1780s.
The rise of poorly regulated Capitalism has allowed the richest to buy up the politicians and now Democracy has become Oligarchy.
entities (including the United States) that are explicitly anti-capitalist
Gawd, you are fucking stupid.
There has never been a place on the planet that is more into the ownership model which has more exploitable non-owner employees.
...and when it comes to markets, hell, even the gov't is for sale.
Anti-Capitalist is a synonym for Socialist.
USA has bombed, invaded, and occupied places that show even a glimmer of that.
USA.gov has sent weapons and advisors to other places that smell like an Anti-Capitalist movement is afoot.
Just how Capitalist does USA have to be for you, you smeghead?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:19AM (2 children)
Ah, yes. You've revealed yourself to be the uppity, angry, self-loathing, mutilated Jew that you are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:27AM
Why must you be such a racist dickhead of a troll? You are not worthy to even use that insult.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:29AM
Dave Lister was Jewish??
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(Score: 2) by Geotti on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:26AM (3 children)
Sorry to break it to you, but the Corsican Republic [wikipedia.org] was there first in 1755.
Didn't last long, but hey...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:39AM (1 child)
There's considerable difference between that and the Oligarchy-from-the-start thing that USA has.
The number of concessions made to the Southern slave-holding Aristocracy (Electoral College, appointed senators, no recall-by-the-voters of bad performers, etc.) made our system a new and different thing.
...not that your point isn't noteworthy.
Switzerland has had a pretty cool democratic thing going for a while as well.
Being occupied by Austrians (e.g. the William Tell story) put a damper on that for a while.
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(Score: 2) by Geotti on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:42AM
Ah yes, I must have ignored the "form of" in your sentence. My apologies :)
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:04PM
There have been LOTS of partial democracies throughout history. Sometimes they represented a union of the lower classes, sometimes the aristocracy united against the rest. Britain was unusual in that the Magna Charta gave votes to both the aristocracy and the commoners in the same structure. Calling it a Constitutional Monarchy rather than a limited democracy is an arbitrary choice. The boundaries are fuzzy.
And as for the US...slaves and women weren't allowed to vote, so it was at best a partial democracy. Just like all the others. At the current time the US is closer to being a real democracy than at any time before 1900. This doesn't mean that effectively it's not really an oligarchy. Power and formal structure are two different things. Formal structure is easy to document, but flows of power are usually hidden. Currently in the US children and foreigners aren't allowed to vote. So even the formal democracy is limited.
P.S.: Just because there are "good reasons" for not allowing some segment to vote doesn't mean that letting them vote wouldn't be more democratic. OTOH, there's nothing inherently good about a democracy. Democracies have a strong tendency to take simplistic views of problem, to look for scapegoats, etc. And there's the problem of candidates for office being bribed before they start their official duties (or offered bribes for afterwards). The "offered bribes for afterwards" could easily be addressed if the government wanted to, by making the acceptance of favors from those you regulate illegal, and enforcing that law. The bribes before attaining office is more difficult. So my preferred solution is selecting officials by lot...with an ample pension and a strict law against accepting any emoluments of any nature from anyone except the government afterwards. This would include returns on investments that the official had held before taking office...so they would be well advised to sell off any businesses they owned or investments they held before taking office. (And this would mean that they'd be really impacted by inflation...and would benefit by deflation...but nothing's perfect.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:50AM (1 child)
Ah, yes. You've revealed yourself to be the uppity, angry, self-loathing, mutilated Jew that you are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @01:01AM
Smeghead
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(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:40AM
Ah, yes. You've revealed yourself to be the uppity, angry, self-loathing, mutilated Jew that you are.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @05:11AM
Ah, yes. You've revealed yourself to be the uppity, angry, self-loathing, mutilated Jew that you are.