Michael Knigge, DW: Can Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron save the Iran nuclear deal?
During separate talks with President Donald Trump this week, Macron and Merkel will urge the US to stick to the Iran nuclear deal. In an interview with Fox News, the French leader warned there is no "Plan B."
When French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet President Donald Trump in the White House within days of each other, it will represent the most high profile European push yet to try to convince him to remain in the Iran nuclear accord, which he has repeatedly branded as the "worst deal ever."
The Franco-German charm offensive is certainly the most visible effort to prevent the Trump administration from pulling out of the deal which was signed in 2015. But it is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 23, 2018
Is Iran really a nuclear threat? -- Mersiha Gadzo, Al Jazeera
Iran's Futile Gesture Mirrors Venezuela's Economic Idiocy -- Simon Constable, Forbes
How Mike Pompeo Stole the North Korea Show -- Michael Fuchs & Abby Bard, National Interest
Why a Trump-Kim Deal Has a Good Shot -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Erdoğan tries to fix his election -- Akram Belkaïd, Le Monde Diplomatique
Syrian opposition says U.S. cannot afford to leave Syria yet -- Sarah Dadouch, Reuters
Remembering Syria Before the War -- Caroline Kitchener and Karen Yuan, The Atlantic
Israel, Palestinians return to conflicting narratives -- Uri Savir, Al-Monitor
Have China-Australia ties reached a new low? -- Charli Shield, DW
How China Is Buying Its Way Into Europe -- Andre Tartar, Mira Rojanasakul and Jeremy Scott Diamond, Bloomberg
Merkel's Final Act -- Philipp Rotmann, National Interest
Crossing Divides: Europe 'more split' than decade ago -- Valeria Perasso, BBC
Armenia's Peaceful Revolution Is a Lesson for Putin -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
The Foreign Leaders Trump Favors -- Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic
CIA Releases Morell Memo Clearing Haspel on Destroyed Tapes -- The Cipher Brief
Is this the way to a peaceful world? -- John Lloyd, Reuters
3 comments:
Seems then that many nations leaders want to save this deal but that Trump and his (mostly) GOP do not. Iran says bad things will happen if we dump the deal...better minds than mine can offer their astute opionions here
It will require better minds than mine as well. I think the bottom libe is though unless POTUS has support from our "allies" to do so I don't think he will attempt to alter the deal. While it has flaws, it appears we are stuck with it. The best bet might be to work constructively with Russia and China to obtain their assistance in ensuring Iranian cooperation. As for bad things, Iran seems to want to bad things to us regardless of the deal. I'd like to get this moved to some sort of UN tribunal whereby we could resolve this once and for all. I don't Iran is interested in such an approach.
Trump didn’t bat an eye lash in ditching the Paris agreement. It wasn’t a treaty as it could never get thru the Senate. The Iran deal is the same deal. Even worse Obama lied about the Iran deal.
I expect Trump to ditch this deal as it serves no American purpose to pretend the deal slows down Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons.
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