European leaders scramble to save the Iranian nuclear deal

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Despite the overwhelming evidence exposed by Israeli intelligence that Iran is actively seeking to build nuclear weapons, these Eurofools are scrambling to save their nuke deal and continue to do business with the Islamic Republic. Their short-sightedness is as suicidal in this case as it is with regard to their immigration policies. They don’t care about all the “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” screams — they think those screams don’t apply to them. They’re in for a rude awakening.

“Macron and other European leaders pledge to salvage Iran deal,” by Melissa Bell, Saskya Vandoorne and James Masters, CNN, May 9, 2018:

Paris (CNN)French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed Europe’s commitment to the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday while urging Tehran to take part in future discussions over its ballistic missile program.

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A day after US President Donald Trump announced he was quitting the pact, putting him on a collision course with some of the US’ closest allies, Macron spoke with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani by telephone as attempts to salvage the deal began in earnest.

According to an Élysée Palace readout of the call, Macron urged Iran to “engage in a wide discussion with all parties involved” on topics including the country’s nuclear program after 2025, its ballistic missiles and its actions across the Middle East.

Macron confirmed that the French and Iranian foreign ministers would meet soon to ensure progress.

Earlier Wednesday, France’s Foreign Secretary Jean-Yves Le Drian had attempted to calm tensions by insisting the Iran deal was “not dead.”

“The American logic is an isolationist, protectionist and unilateral logic,” Le Drian told French radio station RTL. “This is a break with international commitment and France deeply regrets this decision. We will bring businesses together in the coming days to try and preserve them as much as possible from the US measures.”

Representatives from France, the UK and Germany — key signatories to the six-nation negotiating group that brokered the 2015 Obama-era Iran deal — would meet with their Iranian counterparts on Monday and were committed to preserving the agreement, Le Drian said….

“Europe punches back after Trump’s Iran decision,” by David M. Herszenhorn, Politico, May 10, 2018:

European leaders on Wednesday began drawing up plans to preserve the Iran nuclear accord, in defiance of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday decision to abandon what he called the “rotten” agreement.

The possible action includes legislation that would block Washington from punishing European companies that continue to do business with Iran. It reflects Europe’s deep frustration with Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 deal despite the pleas of its top leaders.

Trump’s action has inflamed a transatlantic relationship already strained by his threat to impose tariffs on European products, along with his 2017 withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. The leaders of Britain, France and Germany spent months trying to convince Trump to sustain the Iran deal, which they helped to negotiate. In a Tuesday statement, former Secretary of State John Kerry, who spearheaded the nuclear talks, warned that it “isolates [the U.S.] from our European allies.”

Trump’s move not only removes the U.S. from the nuclear pact but raises the specter of American sanctions on European companies that have embarked on business ventures in Iran.

On Wednesday, European leaders began to fight back.

European Union officials scrambled in Brussels Wednesday to pull together legislation aimed at defending European companies from Washington’s new crackdown on Iran….

“French Government Seeks Exemptions for Companies in Iran as Trump Pledges ‘Strongest Sanctions Ever’ on Tehran’s Rulers,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, May 9, 2018:

France’s economy minister promised on Wednesday to seek “exemptions” for French companies engaged in trade with both the US and Iran, as President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal raised fears across Europe about the economic effects of restoring tough American sanctions on the Tehran regime.

“It is not acceptable for the US to be the economic policeman of the planet,” Bruno Le Maire, the economy minister, said during an interview with broadcaster France Culture when asked about the prospect of French companies being penalized in America for trading with Iran.

Le Maire noted that France had tripled its trade with Iran in the two-year period following the announcement of the nuclear deal in July 2015. Any US punitive measures would compound the challenges faced by European companies that were already confronted with “considerable economic difficulties,” the economy minister went on to claim.

French companies including oil giant Total and car manufacturer Renault are among a list of high-profile US and European companies that will need to wind up their operations in Iran by November 14 this year — 180 days from the American withdrawal from the nuclear deal on May 8. Total’s US operations could face penalties if the company sticks with a planned $5 billion investment in Iran’s oil industry….

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Typical Loons of Europe ! Left/Liberal and jihadis think the same.

Turkey govt allows organ harvest of prisoners and orphaned children killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8

And this country is NATO member ! Left/liberals are ok with organ harvesting by killing babies too !

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Anything for $$$$$$$$$$$$$!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
5 years ago

This same bunch of european dolts, who destroyed the indigenous cultures of western europe, no think they can take reason to muslims who are determined to destroy them, then introduce a caliphate in the countries that used to be european. Western europe in doomed.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Muslims are well on the way to making the EU a calipHATE. I can hardly take it in how they are enabling their own demise and desperately looking for ways to continue it and ideally force us to stay in it. Just because they want to jump off the cliff, doesn’t mean the U.S. should follow! The EU is doomed! NEVER trust MUSLIMS. EVER!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Necrophilia is endorsed by the qur’an.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

If there were no muslims and their book of hate, the world would very much be a wonderful place.

James JonesD
James Jones
5 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Remember that song :
But you tell me over and over again my friend
Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction
The names have changed since then, new players have come on to the scene, but the hate and the human disrespect is still with us. A different incarnation of an old darkness is flooding many of the lands overseas, but their is a new twist to it. The Biblical illiterate wouldn’t understand how much conditions today are lining up with end time prophecies as their have never done before. A great apostasy has swept much of the West and God’s hand has pulled back, and, like a vacuum, the void is filling with darkness. As instinctive it is to fight against evil, which I will still do, it is also worth considering that if God has ordained this, then nothing man can do can stop it. Bear in mind that no one gets out of life alive and it is incumbent upon each to genuinely come to your own evaluation of God, but if indeed His final judgement has begun, then it becomes imperative that your search begins soon.
With Christ, God instituted a new era of grace – a window of opportunity to accept His free gift of salvation. That window of opportunity is closing and judgement is beginning. The New Testament, and in particular the Book of John, gives you all you need to know and what to do, but you must first ask God to reveal Himself to you. He promised that all who seek Him will be found by Him.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

This is almost hilarious.

“It is not acceptable for the US to be the economic policeman of the planet,” …

the U.S. is a sovereign nation not interested in with no interest in helping Iran develop nuclear weapons to be used on us. The EU is funding and cheering on their demise. Any U.N. or other organization “legislation” will have no teeth because we are a sovereign nation. Go cry to the WTO too!

“Le Maire noted that France had tripled its trade with Iran in the two-year period following the announcement of the nuclear deal in July 2015. Any US punitive measures would compound the challenges faced by European companies that were already confronted with “considerable economic difficulties,” the economy minister went on to claim.

Yes, you are temporarily profiting by enabling your enemies! You also need the money to finance the Muslim invasion because Muslims want the infidel funding them. Muslims don’t work! The EU is running out of money for this utopia. Imbeciles!

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
5 years ago

Never mistake the raw threat that Da’wa represents: it is a deadly warning that violent wars of conquest will follow if the targeted population does not submit.

Witness the so-called “Arab Spring” if in doubt.. ~Hirsi Ali.

Poppey
Poppey
5 years ago

Boy toy Macron is as we know a puppet {and poppet} of the globalist big banks and corrupted political elites, this refusal to support a leader he was just seen cuddling is all about money and gaining advantage globally, the morality of funding and supporting a terrorist Islamic regime like Iran will not be allowed to impinge on these glittering potential prizes To the EU and German / French axis, Israel is nothing but a “problem” to be punished.

The UK too has a government which is conservative in name only because the head at the top end is cursed with the brain of a chicken. This witless bird needs it’s scrawny neck rung, and for millions like me who can see the wood for the trees, Trump is just the bloke to do it.

What we are witness to is the busting open of the doors of our enforced “group think” cell, all the feathers flying together with the clucking and squawking means a fox is loose in the hen house.

Go get em Trumpy.

Dennis
Dennis
5 years ago

Europe knows that it cannot survive both militarily and economically without the U.S. What I see happening is a Europe now becoming engaged in recognizing the danger represented by Iran, all because Trump acknowledge that Iran cannot be trusted and that Iran’s conduct, especially in Syria, Lebanon and now attacks against Israel is malevolent. My hope is that Europe will not only recognize the dangers that they face from Iran and their Islamic crazies, but that they will all come around to the conclusion that Iran does not intend to live up to any agreement in the long term. Unless they accept that reality, Europe will be overrun by the world of Islam, and that must be stopped now. Trump has made the right decision, and if he puts the economic pressure that will turn the tables on Iran, he will have accomplished another meritorious result.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
5 years ago

me thinks all of western Europe is a kleptocracy

Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, “thief”, κλέπτω kléptō, “I steal”, and -κρατία -kratía from κράτος krátos, “power, rule”) is a government with corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) that use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political powers. Typically, this system involves embezzlement of funds at the expense of the wider population.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

The best government islamic petroeuros can buy!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

What better alternative do the Europeans have? Iran has not stopped funding Hezbollah against Israel in the months and years since the agreement, they had a chance to change themselves, but refused to do so.

Aussiemike1
Aussiemike1
5 years ago

It should say wimps scramble to save The Iranians the chance to still build the bomb

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Imagine that? After we saved them in World War II. They are much like Negroes. After we freed them and now even feed them, they still hate our guts.

We even made one illegally “President” trying to prove we love Negroes and we all know what that sodomite did to us. Never again…..

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago

Look at history here. The Europeans raising such a ruckus are Germany, France, and England. In WW2, we kicked Germany’s Nazi ass and rescued France and England’s so they could all be around to be our allies in the first place.

JppD
Jpp
5 years ago

Hello,
So sad to see Europe is getting deeper in this BIG mistake instead of helping Iran people. the regime will fall and USA will be seen as savior, well done Donald. (Once again)
We need an european spring to kick out our actual super dhimmis (Macron, Merkel and May and Co) and of course declare Islam illegal and to be banned, ban halhal food which fund those terrorists… Give choice to muslim to convert to any other kind of cult or leave…. to the moon (their stupid Pseudo-God)

Daiseymae
Daiseymae
5 years ago

Boo hoo! Baby it is gone, gone, gone!

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joc22D
joc22
5 years ago

Ah the French and the Europeans cowards, always willing to suck the dick of the muslim jihadist world in exchange for not hurting them or favors. I bet there will be cash payments to Iran soon as their dhimmi tax kicks in. Macron you and your ilk are Pathetic, Simply, Pathetic. The Iranians played the world for idiots in the Obama deal, while all the time continuing it’s race to acquire nuclear arms. The EU nations and the UK will wake up one day with Iran armed with dozens of missiles pointed at them damning that they bow to Islam or face destruction.

Pantalones
Pantalones
5 years ago

If Marie LePenn was President she would’ve handled them Muslim cowards destroying Paris by now.

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