dagblog - Comments for "Trump's next moves to tank the Iranian economy"

Hold a certain N.E. Asian

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 15 May 2019 18:45:12 +0000

Hold a certain N.E. Asian country in your frontal lobes and re-read what I wrote. I don't do smileys, but may have to resort to them. Seems a shame though...

Wow, I can't believe you

ocean-kat — Wed, 15 May 2019 18:31:58 +0000

In reply to In this case I kinda agree

Wow, I can't believe you posted this.

By all accounts I've read the Iran deal not only successfully stopped Iran's development of nuclear weapons but rolled back it's ability. For example they destroyed thousands of centrifuges.

It's true that Iran has continued to meddle in other nations, as they have for decades. It then becomes a question of how much ability America has to control other nations. Can we stop Iran's nuclear development and it's funding of dissident groups in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and support for Assad in Syria? Or will attempting to do everything cause us to fail at controlling nuclear weapons. Are there any priorities?

America's position on nuclear weapons cannot be that we support nuclear proliferation by our allies and sanction non allies when they try to develop nuclear weapons. When Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons it's only logical that Iran would attempt to develop them to maintain a balance of power.

In this case I kinda agree

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 09 May 2019 05:53:00 +0000

In reply to Yup, whitehouse.gov Trump

In this case I kinda agree with the White House - should we really alliw rogue states to build and test nukes and smugly send test shot missiles across their neighbors' (our good allies') territory? (or even thhe same with chemical weapons which I bet they have and use on their own citizens). Glad we're applying tough sanctions to all these lawless regimes.

Yup, whitehouse.gov Trump

artappraiser — Thu, 09 May 2019 00:57:16 +0000

In reply to Trump's next moves to tank the Iranian economy

Yup, whitehouse.gov Trump statement issued May 8:

“Today’s action targets Iran’s revenue from the export of industrial metals—10 percent of its export economy—and puts other nations on notice that allowing Iranian steel and other metals into your ports will no longer be tolerated.” https://t.co/ImSocKMksU
— Boris Zilberman (@rolltidebmz) May 9, 2019

Michael Weiss points to a

artappraiser — Wed, 08 May 2019 05:22:15 +0000

In reply to Trump's next moves to tank the Iranian economy

Michael Weiss points to a great news thread by Hesmat Alavi on Twitter on what the Iranians are up to on JCPOA negotiations:

It’s a shakedown. They’re good at that. https://t.co/6JOzrE4UCa
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) May 8, 2019

Exec. Editor of DefenseOne

artappraiser — Wed, 08 May 2019 05:02:10 +0000

In reply to Trump's next moves to tank the Iranian economy

Exec. Editor of DefenseOne.com, a defense business news site, totally blasts the administration as incompetent on its handling of this, and the article has jumped right away to the #1 most read over there:

How Not to Announce a Ship Deployment https://t.co/2fHswNCOcF | @DefenseBaron pic.twitter.com/JyhIV0YPyS
— Defense One (@DefenseOne) May 8, 2019

John Bolton is the difference

artappraiser — Tue, 07 May 2019 20:14:18 +0000

In reply to Trump's next moves to tank the Iranian economy

John Bolton is the difference https://t.co/IDkWRYG8fr
— paul mcleary (@paulmcleary) May 7, 2019

little birds say instructions

artappraiser — Tue, 07 May 2019 04:56:02 +0000

In reply to Trump's next moves to tank the Iranian economy

little birds say instructions are to ignore Bolton:

Re US/Iran/Iraq, told people have been told not to repeat Bolton’s lines
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 7, 2019

Told people who have seen the operational security intelligence driving this assessment say it is not that big
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 7, 2019

That’s on US side. From allies even more bewildered/something else
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 7, 2019

*fathom
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 7, 2019

That gives you a sense that

artappraiser — Mon, 06 May 2019 18:34:02 +0000

In reply to Trump's next moves to tank the Iranian economy

That gives you a sense that the actions being taken aren’t in response to anything particularly new or specific https://t.co/B8lbBZCAHx
— Afshon Ostovar (@AOstovar) May 6, 2019

and

artappraiser — Mon, 06 May 2019 03:27:53 +0000

In reply to On how the admin.

and

talk with diplomats whenever can from some of other countries. this is openly their assessment. Trump admin desperate to get Iran to default https://t.co/y2cw6Tp83C
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 6, 2019

All the other countries still in. Which, many experts did not foresee several months ago. https://t.co/pxLqs49gui
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 6, 2019