- "Pretty Please" - Trump Asked Iran To Allow Him To Bomb It - MOA on this and UK piracy Archived Message
Posted by MikeD
on July 9, 2019, 10:12 am
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...But the British policy on Iran is no better. On one side it is a signatory of the nuclear deal with Iran and claims that it wants to uphold it. On the other side it follows orders from the White House and hijacks a tanker that carries Iranian oil which it claims is going to Syria. Britain has absolutely no legal basis to do such. Even the former Swedish prime minister and rumored CIA asset Carl Bildt finds that behavior too crude: Carl Bildt @carlbildt - 9:24 PM - 7 Jul 2019 The legalities of the UK seizure of a tanker heading for Syria with oil from Iran intrigues me. One refers to EU sanctions against Syria, but Iran is not a member of EU. And EU as a principle doesn’t impose its sanctions on others. That’s what the US does. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi called the British act "robbery" and said that the ship was not heading to Syria. Its real destination is said to be "a new southern European customer" for Iranian oil, probably Italy. Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami promised to respond to the British act of piracy. As usual the response will be asymmetrical and will come at a time and place of Iran's choosing. Posted by b on July 8, 2019 Liked bevin's comment: "The "Gibraltar" business was all about the race to the bottom between Hunt and Johnson. My guess is that Hunt, who would kill his granny and eat her for fifty cents, was behind the decision to do as Pompeo and Bolton wanted. Now, in light of the wise observation that "U.S. military assets in the Middle East do not deter. They are targets." One naturally begins to wonder which of the UK's remaining assets in the region, which traditionally it dominated, it is going to lose as Iran makes it pay. Something in Bahrain perhaps." https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/07/pretty-please-trump-asked-iran-to-allow-him-to-bomb-it.html#more |
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