President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House today
DONALD TRUMP’S cheerleaders and assorted wishful thinkers suggest that the US president’s intemperate decision to abandon the Iran nuclear agreement will usher in speedy negotiation of another better deal.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed by the five permanent members of the UN security council, plus Germany and Iran, in 2015 took hard negotiations over a substantial timescale to secure agreement.
It provides for gradual removal of damaging economic sanctions against Tehran in return for Iran’s uranium enrichment programme being wound down.
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
