A staff removes the Iranian flag from the stage after a group picture with foreign ministers and representatives of Unites States, Iran, China, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and the European Union during the Iran nuclear talks at the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria July 14, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Robert Fisk, The Independent: Iran nuclear deal: However the great and good represent it, America has now taken the Shia side in the Middle East's sectarian war
Obama hailed a 'more hopeful world...an opportunity to move in another direction'
However much Bibi Netanyahu of Israel and the Gulf sultans rage at the Vienna agreement, the Arabs at least will suspect the truth: that the Americans have taken the Shia Muslim side in the Middle East’s sectarian war.
That’s not how it was represented by the great and the good, of course. The headlines were simple. The Iranians agree to jam the breaks on their nuclear programme, pack up their centrifuges for a decade and cut back their uranium stockpile. All this in return for an end to the sanctions, financial goodies and bank transfers that Washington, the EU and the dear old United Nations had variously imposed on and witheld from the nation which that bearded old prelate Ruhollah Khomeini founded as an Islamic Republic 36 years ago.
WNU Editor: I am usually in disagreement with Robert Fisk .... but he does understand the region and his observations on what is happening right now deserve to be read. As to the perception that the U.S. is now siding with the Shia side in current Middle East sectarian war .... I have been seeing that shift in the past year, and this nuclear agreement all but clinchesthat perception.
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