Daily Mail: Iran vows to buy weapons 'wherever and whenever possible' and says it will sell arms to 'whomever it considers appropriate' in the latest embarrassing blow to American-led nuclear deal
* Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister said nuclear agreement will not shackle Iran
* Abbas Araghchi claimed it actually allows the country to trade more freely
* Told state TV that America agreed to relax restrictions on Iran's arms dealing, according to a translation by the CIA's Open Source Center
* Comments come as both Iran and U.S. try to sell deal to sceptical citizens
* Conservatives in both nations have been bitterly divided for a generation
A top Iranian politician who led the recent historic talks with Western leaders over the country's nuclear ambitions has vowed to continue buying and selling arms around the world, it is claimed.
In the latest embarrassing blow to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who presided over the talks in Vienna, Abbas Araghchi insisted that Iran would refuse to be shackled by nuclear deal.
According to the CIA's Open Source Center, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister has told state television that that he'd insisted the deal continued to allow Iran to 'buy weapons from wherever possible' as well as to 'provide weapons to whomever and whenever it considers appropriate'.
Update: Iran Vows to Buy Weapons Anytime, Anywhere -- Washington Free Beacon
WNU Editor: This is music to the arms merchants of the world.
2 comments:
But not nuclear weapons?
"But not nuclear weapons?" Absolutely I would expect Iran to buy and sell nuclear weapons.
The longer negotiations went on the worse it would have gotten for America. On the one side you have Iran's allies in Russia and China the world's most powerful countries and Iran's de facto allies in the UK, Germany, and France. Even if we assume the UK, France, and Germany are on America's side, these are like minnows going up against the great white sharks of Russia and China and the US, while perhaps not a minnow in this equation is unlikely to be on the same level as Russia or China and even less likely to be on that level when those countries are combined.
Essentially in such a situation this looks allot like a gang rape of America. Of course I rather think John Kerry and Team Obama rather enjoy being gang raped like this. The bottom line even a crack American negotiating team of which these are not would not really have had any real chance to get a good deal on this.
If Iran does not deal now, they could have done either of the following. 1.)Continue dragging things out and as consternation towards America grows the deal gets better and better for them. Perhaps instead of 10 years they'd be looking at 2 or less. 2.)Simply wait out the Americans unit the next election. When a Republican wins the White House, there would have been a good chance the Americans walk away on principle. In which case, the other P5+1 members move very quickly to end all sanctions, all weapons embargos, and force the Americans to release any Iranian funds they may still be holding along with no inspections of any type.
In other words, they could have gotten an even better deal by simply waiting. As such, it seems a reasonable presumption that they plan on cheating.
Even if American only sanctions remain in place and the rest of the world ignores sanctions, this is a bit like using a pop gun try and stop a tank and it undermines the role of the US dollar as world reserve currency.
With that said this deal may be workable. I see some basic problems. POTUS and his team seem to be putting to much faith in it. What if Iran does not abide by the terms? What are the plans to deal with a nuclear armed Iran? In other words, there does not seem to be a back up plan and the Administration seems to implicitly trust the good faith of the Iranians. To say this seems unwise is an understatement.
The headline of the article indicates this deal is somehow American led but seems to do nothing to establish that. In fact, from the timeline, it seems the Americans only got involved once it became apparent that blocking deal with a country that poses an existential threat to America as Iran does was impossible. After all if someone is going to decide your future the least you can do is try and be in the room!!
This is also interesting in that seems to be some opposition to this deal in Iran. This would seem far from a done deal. If the US Congress blocks it, it really makes no difference except to further isolate America and hasten the decline of the US dollar as world reserve currency. If the Iranian Parliament rejects the deal, then perhaps its back to the negotiating table where Iran gets an even better deal as they still have the strong hand they had going in or they simply walk away and still get everything they want without a so called 10 year time period.
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