EU tells Trump he doesn’t have the power to unilaterally scrap the Iran nuclear deal

[Right_in_Virginia]

EU tells Trump he doesn’t have the power to unilaterally scrap the Iran nuclear deal
Independent, May 9, 2018, Yahoo News

The European Union has rebuked Donald Trump over his move to break the Iran nuclear deal, telling the US president he does not have the power to unilaterally scrap the international agreement.

In a statement delivered on Tuesday night EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said the US should reconsider its position, but that it was not within the power of the country’s president to end the accord.

Mr Trump ended the US’s commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated between Iran, the EU, US, Russia, China, France, Britain, and Germany, which was signed by his predecessor Barack Obama in 2015.

He claims the deal is “decaying and rotten” and says it is “an embarrassment” to him “as a citizen”. In the US the deal is politically-charged because it is seen as a key legacy as Barack Obama. It is also opposed by Israel, a close US ally in the region.

Speaking in Rome the EU’s Ms Mogherini said Europe “regrets” Mr Trump’s new policy, but added: “As we have always said the nuclear deal is not a bilateral agreement and it is not in the hands of any single country to terminate it unilaterally.

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“Let me conclude with a message to Iranian citizens and leaders, to each and every one of them: do not let anyone dismantle this agreement,” she said.


More:  https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-tells-trump-doesn-t-082500816.html

[Ghost Bear]

F the EU.

[driftdiver]

He's not pulling Germany out of it.   He's pulling the US out of it

[skeeter]

Does anyone else find it strange that the only two countries routinely threatened with annihilation by Iran are the only one's against this ridiculous agreement?

[INVAR]

F the EU.

Not bigly enough.



Whatcha gonna do there EU??

[edpc]

The other countries are free to stay in it, if they want to. Just be prepared to deal with sanctions down the road.

[driftdiver]

At the end of the day the Iran deal is not about Iranian nukes or sanctions.   Its about setting a precedent for the American President to bypass Congress and submit to the European puppet masters.  All part of the move to a global dictatorship modeled after what the EU is doing.

[Frank Cannon]

At the end of the day the Iran deal is not about Iranian nukes or sanctions.   Its about setting a precedent for the American President to bypass Congress and submit to the European puppet masters.  All part of the move to a global dictatorship modeled after what the EU is doing.

Exactly. This "Deal" was a fraud.

[thackney]

State Department: Iran Deal Is Not ‘Legally Binding’ and Iran Didn’t Sign It
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/state-department-iran-deal-not-legally-binding-signed/

“The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document,” wrote Julia Frifield, the State Department assistant secretary for legislative affairs, in the November 19 letter.

Frifield wrote the letter in response to a letter Pompeo sent Secretary of State John Kerry, in which he observed that the deal the president had submitted to Congress was unsigned and wondered if the administration had given lawmakers the final agreement. Frifield’s response emphasizes that Congress did receive the final version of the deal. But by characterizing the JCPOA as a set of “political commitments” rather than a more formal agreement, it is sure to heighten congressional concerns that Iran might violate the deal’s terms.  President Obama didn’t require Iranian leaders to sign the nuclear deal that his team negotiated with the regime, and the deal is not “legally binding,” his administration acknowledged in a letter to Representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) obtained by National Review....

[Free Vulcan]

My, my EU, aren't our imperialist ambitions a bit out of control today?

[verga]

The other countries are free to stay in it, if they want to. Just be prepared to deal with sanctions down the road.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

At the end of the day the Iran deal is not about Iranian nukes or sanctions.   Its about setting a precedent for the American President to bypass Congress and submit to the European puppet masters.  All part of the move to a global dictatorship modeled after what the EU is doing.

if Obama had really wanted it, he would have gotten Senate approval.

Since he didn't, it cannot be enforced

[Jazzhead]

He's not pulling Germany out of it.   He's pulling the US out of it

That's right.  And of course he can do what he did - Obama didn't have the balls to submit the agreement to Congress for ratification.   As for Europe, it can choose whether to deal with Iran or deal with us.  I find myself quite indifferent one way or another . . .

[Cyber Liberty]

if Obama had really wanted it, he would have gotten Senate approval.

Since he didn't, it cannot be enforced

Correction:  He could have asked.  It does not follow he would have gotten it.  Asking for it, and failing would have demonstrated there was not support for it in the Senate.  There's is no way Obama's precious"deal" would have survived an attempt at proper ratification, and he knew it.

IOW, Obama half-assed this thing, like everything else the little weasel has ever done.

[edpc]

IOW, Obama half-assed this thing, like everything else the little weasel has ever done.

I’ve got a pen and I've got a phone - oh, and a plane load of cash.