Pompeo is correct, of course. The post-World War II global order is crumbling, but Britain and France are clinging to the old arrangements and hoping to revive them, selling the mullahs the rope they’ll use to hang them.
“US says France, Britain ‘abdicating duty’ on Iran,” AFP, August 21, 2020:
The US accused China and allies Britain and France Friday of “abdicating their duty” as it held firm on its solitary push to maintain an arms embargo and restore broader UN sanctions on Iran.
“We don’t need anybody’s permission to initiate snapback,” Brian Hook, the State Department’s Special Representative for Iran, told reporters, referring to the mechanism activated by Washington on Thursday to restore sanctions.
“Iran is in violation of its voluntary nuclear commitments. The conditions have been met to initiate snapback.”
Hook said the lack of support from any other members of the UN Security Council for the move was moot, and that they had “failed” a week ago by not extending a soon-to-expire arms embargo on Iran as urged by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council.
“China and Russia and France and the United Kingdom decided to ignore the views of the Gulf Cooperation Council,” Hook said….
He continued: “It was a very disappointing abdication of duty.”
On Thursday Pompeo formally began the process to reimpose sweeping economic and political sanctions on Iran dating back to 2006. They had been had been lifted under the 2015 accord, known as the JCPOA, that aimed to halt Tehran from developing a nuclear weapons capability….
In a major break between longstanding allies, on Thursday France, Britain and Germany rejected use of the snapback, calling it “incompatible with our current efforts to support the JCPOA.”
They also warned that the US action could have “serious adverse consequences” on the work of the Security Council.
Pompeo lashed back in unusually harsh language, accusing the three allies of “siding with the ayatollahs.”…
Meanwhile Pompeo warned other countries that the US would not allow arms to be shipped to Iran after the expiration of the embargo on October 18.
“I assure you the United States will use every tool in its arsenal to make sure that the Chinese and the Russians are incapable of delivering weapon systems to Iran that threaten us,” he told Fox News.
barbaracvm1 says
We fought two world wars. England and to a lesser degree France, were holding on to their empire status. They could not win a war unless the US was fighting with them.
England was in their dying throes and could not accept the changes from a monarchy to a democracy.
France’s refusal to leave Vietnam , wanted to retain this colonized country, while Vietnam wanted freedom. This refusal, on France’s part, lead the US into a loosing war.
Now England and France are supporting Iran’s dictatorship.?! The question has to be WHY?
To some extent I understand China and Russia. BUT do they think the Muslims will respect their civilization’s cultural standard. I refuse to call this cult a religion.
Layi Adigun says
It’s very easy to see what influence the junk you just scribbled here. Muslims respect all civilisations’s cultural standards, but those who’re filled with hate will never see anything good in Islam.
It is obvious the governnents of UK, France, Germany and others are regaining their senses after years of supporting the US illegality and problematic foreign policies across.
You can’t eat your cake abd still have it. Trump’ withdrawal from JCPLOA make it impossible to have any power on the clauses of the said agreements.
Besides, the others world powers who’re signatories to the agreements found Iran not to have violated the agreements. Thus, see no reason for any snapback sanctions mechanism to be activated.
The only set of people who can support Trump and pompeo crusade against Iran are Christians whose stock in trade is hate, imperialism, colonialism and war across the world.
America has a lot of internal problems to deal with. Those who kill George Floyd are innumerable and they’re at every corner of united states. Islamophobia and racism is growing at an alarming rate, but the idiots ones will not see anything wrong with their pseudo-democracy. They’re obsessed with the flaws of other countries. The world will continue to witness chaos and anachy until you Christians realise your destructive roles in the world.
FYI says
Laughably, it is islam’s stock in trade that is hate,{islamic} imperialism,colonialism and war across the world.
“muslims respect all civilizations cultural standads”Since when?
Try and tell Hindus,Buddhists,Jews and Christians that.
1400 years of colonialism and war,raping and pillaging across the planet in the name of an evidently false god,your child raping psychopathic false prophet muhammed and a false scripture.
The HATE is coming from the muslim side..
You muslims have been at war with mankind for 14 centuries.
14 centuries of hate,islamic imperialism,colonialism and war.
You muslims never get the IRONY.
You muslims never get the illogicality of defending your wicked totalitarian fascist cult with its pervert of a prophet and its plagiarized ‘holy’ scripture which is worthless JUNK not worth the paper it is written on.
1]islam has a Doctrine of HATE al walaa wal baraa
No other world religion has that.Your cult does.
2]islam’s koran has a Religious Apartheid system that discriminates against Jews,Christians and ‘polytheists’
It pits muslims{‘the BEST community’} koran 3:110 versus non-muslims
{‘the WORST of created beings’} koran 98:6
It is anti Jewish,anti Christian,anti Hindu,anti Buddhist,anti atheist,anti freedom,anti democracy,misogynistic and racist :that is some record for a religion that pretends to be one of Peace and tolerance
3]The koran instructs muslims NOT to be friends with Jews and Christians {koran 5:51}
otherwise a muslim becomes an infidel.
4]The warped teachings of the koran are in total violation of the Laws of Moses and the teachings of the prophets as revealed in the Bible
{islam has no 1st chief commandment Deut 6:4-9 and no 2nd chief commandment Lev19:18,no Golden Rule}the koran is an instruction manual to break every one of the official Exodus 20 Decalogue laws
5}the koran CURSES Christians for believing in Jesus Christ koran 9:30
The koran says Jews are ‘to be despised and hated’ koran 2:65
Your islam is the cause of most of the chaos in the world.
john smith says
+1
Sam says
You muslims have been at war with mankind for 14 centuries.
14 centuries of hate,islamic imperialism,colonialism and war.
What are you talking about? Do you have 2 cells in your skull?
Zionism and Christians have been murdering humans for the past 500 years.
What do you mean by ” colonization”?
How many native Americans have you murdered and kick out of their lands?
How many Africans have you murdered, enslaved , colonized their countries and stile their wealth, how many?
Asians?middle easterns? Huh?
What about the creation of a filthy criminal Zionist state in the heart of the Islamic lands? Killed and kicked the original owners? … then, just during the past 30 years you have murdered 11 million Muslims, injured more than 40 millions, and sent 90% of the rest into total poverty after stealing their natural resources, is this Christianity? Is this part of Jesus teachings? Do you have any particle of decency and humanity? I don’t think so, you are pure evil and your God is Satan….
My advice is, go back and read Jesus Christ life story, learn from what he taught you, learn from the teachings of Mohammed, the original ones and not the one produced by the Jews…. lean from Bhudda … decent humans, stop being a thieves and a killer, stop following satan.
FYI says
@Sam
You appear to be talking to yourself.
I’m not in any church.I’m not responsible for History or what Christians do.
I OPPOSE colonialism.
Neither myself nor any of my ancestors{who were in fact colonized} have ever been involved in colonialization nor ever killed Native Americans or enslaved Africans
You say “Learn from the teachings of muhmmed”:so you cannot differentiate between muhammed and Jesus Christ’s teachings?
You cannot differentiate between good and evil?
You are cognitively dissonant,illogical and incoherent.
It seems you are the one without brain cells:you are clearly mentally ill.You are projecting your failings and evil on to others.You know you are.
Get Help.
Change your name to GOLLUM.
gravenimage says
The unhinged “Sam” wrote, citing FYI:
You muslims have been at war with mankind for 14 centuries.
14 centuries of hate,islamic imperialism,colonialism and war.
What are you talking about? Do you have 2 cells in your skull?
Zionism and Christians have been murdering humans for the past 500 years.
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Where to start? Of course, Zionism has not been around for 500 years–what is “Sam” here babbling about?
Then, even if his claims were true, doesn’t he grasp that 1400 years is longer than 500–almost three times as long, in fact.
Then, what does “Sam” think happened 500 years ago? Perhaps he means the Battle of Lepanto, where Infidels began to turn the tide of a millenia of Islamic conquest? But of course “Sam” doesn’t want the Infidels to be able to defend themselves against Islamic conquest.
More:
What do you mean by ” colonization”?
How many native Americans have you murdered and kick out of their lands?
How many Africans have you murdered, enslaved , colonized their countries and stile their wealth, how many?
Asians?middle easterns? Huh?
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None of this was in the name of Christianity or Judaism, as “Sam” here pretends. But Muslims constantly cite the diktats of Islam and the vicious “Prophet” Muhammed in their conquest of victims.
The West has acknowledged when she has not lived up to her standards–but Muslims never have, because they never had civilized standards to begin with.
Then, it was the West that *abolished* slavery–something that Islam has ever done. I have asked “Sam” several times now if he will condemn slavery done in the name of Islam–which is going on *to this day*–and he refuses to do so.
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What about the creation of a filthy criminal Zionist state in the heart of the Islamic lands? Killed and kicked the original owners? …
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Muslims *hate* the idea of Jews being about to live in freedom, especially in a land that Muslims had previously enslaved. And this claim that Muslims were the “original owners” when Jews have lived there for over 3000 years is just absurd. “Sam” just hates seeing Muslims lose any of the lands they have had under their heel.
Then, Muslims have full rights in Israel–this is not true for any Jews in Dar-al-Islam. In fact, most Muslim lands expelled Jews and stole all of their wealth–this, in lands where Jews had been living for thousands of years in many cases.
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then, just during the past 30 years you have murdered 11 million Muslims, injured more than 40 millions, and sent 90% of the rest into total poverty after stealing their natural resources, is this Christianity? Is this part of Jesus teachings? Do you have any particle of decency and humanity? I don’t think so, you are pure evil and your God is Satan….
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“Sam” has made this bizarre claim before, and when asked for citations has refused to provide any. But then, Muslim apologists do not believe they have to back anything they say up with facts.
Then, we provide enormous amounts of foreign aid to Dar-al-Islam–“Sam” here is just upset that we haven’t forked over even more of our wealth as Jizya. This is what he characterizes as “total poverty”. Bad dhimmis!
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My advice is, go back and read Jesus Christ life story, learn from what he taught you, learn from the teachings of Mohammed, the original ones and not the one produced by the Jews…. lean from Bhudda … decent humans, stop being a thieves and a killer, stop following satan.
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The teachings of Muhammed call for the violent subjugation of all non-Muslim lands, the slaughter of any who will not submit, and the genocide of the Jews.
Is “Sam” claiming that it is “Jews” who have written these core diktats of Islam? How would that work?
And if “Sam” really believed this, why wouldn’t he be trying to convince Muslims that they have their creed so very, very wrong, instead of slinging Taqiyya here at Jihad Watch?
This is obvious tripe, in any case, because “Sam” has said the Muslims have the right to rape women and burn down our cities to wreck “revenge” on us for not submitting to Islam.
James Lincoln says
Layi Adigun,
Your post is written through the lens of a Leftist / muslim apologist.
It can only be interpreted from that vantage point…
Layi Adigun says
And yours is written from the right/ christian bigot. Have you ever asked yourself what this platform is all about? Is it not to promote your morbid ideology?
James Lincoln says
Layi Adigun,
I never called you names like “bigot” or described your ideology as “morbid”. You, however, resorted to name-calling rather than using facts.
I simply stated, based upon your post using factual evidence-based logic, that you are a Leftist / muslim apologist.
If you do not believe that you are a Leftist / muslim apologist, and I have somehow categorized you incorrectly, please explain how I was wrong – using factual evidence-based logic.
jule says
Only one thing…it is hugepretensethat Muslims or islam is ‘Leftist’. Islam is Supremacists, apartheid, intolerant,punishing, and a dictitorial theology as far right as neonazis. They just hope to join the bandwagon of the left who is so happy to have them because they are semi-socialist types. (but so was Hitler) These people are further right than Evangelicals or even the old Puritans. But even US Right will not accept them.
FYI says
@layi adigun
You sound like a shrill virtue-signalling muslima.
The commentators here are not exclusively Christian:Hindus,atheists,ex-muslims,Jews etc also post here as well as leftists and those useful idiots,muslim trolls.
This ‘platform’ is all about Jihadism and the subversive nature of political islam based on islam’s warped teachings{its religious APARTHEID system,its Doctrine of HATE al walaa was baraa,its endless Jihadism based on :”Belief in allah and jihad is his cause” Muslim 1:149 is allah’s greatest commandment}
islam is truly the most morbid and murderous of any religion: a cult of death.
It is most Interesting how you cannot refute ANY of the 5 things I gave you:to do so would be to deny your beloved islam.Your islam gives you the freedom to be evil.
muslims butcher and rape Christians in Nigeria and desecrate their churches.
You proudly defend what you know is EVIL:your sick pedophile prophet,your evil god ,your fake scripture and perverse immoral religion.
Bigotry,hatred,false piety and the bearing of false witness are islamic specialities.
How ironic to be an African muslima defending a religion whose misogynist god insists women have HALF the value of a man{k2:282} due to what the polygamous ‘prophet’ muhammed said was due to them having ‘deficient minds’:a prophet who was the owner,buyer and seller of black African slaves which he sold at the rate of two for the price of one{sahih muslim 3901}Go read your own islamic sources.
muslims never get Irony:you certainly don’t!You are doubly cursed in islam if you are an African and female.Arabs don’t see African muslims as equals and you are worth only HALF their value anyway.
john smith says
Agreed 100%
gravenimage says
Layi Adigun wrote:
It’s very easy to see what influence the junk you just scribbled here. Muslims respect all civilisations’s cultural standards, but those who’re filled with hate will never see anything good in Islam.
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Is this why pious Muslims burn down Churches and Synagogues, attack women who do not wear Hijab, and wage violent Jihad against all who don’t submit to Islam? How is this showing respect for non-Muslim cultures?
Then, what is good about Islam? It’s teaching of pedophilia, slavery, rape, and the slaughter of Infidels? Notable that this Muslim apologist has not listed as single thing we are supposed to consider good.
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It is obvious the governnents (sic) of UK, France, Germany and others are regaining their senses after years of supporting the US illegality and problematic foreign policies across.
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What is sensible about enabling the savage Mullahs gain nuclear weapons? How is this a good thing?
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You can’t eat your cake abd (sic) still have it. Trump’ withdrawal from JCPLOA make (sic) it impossible to have any power on the clauses of the said agreements.
Besides, the others world powers who’re signatories to the agreements found Iran not to have violated the agreements. Thus, see no reason for any snapback sanctions mechanism to be activated.
The only set of people who can support Trump and pompeo crusade against Iran are Christians whose stock in trade is hate, imperialism, colonialism and war across the world.
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Wait–only Christians oppose the hideous Mullahs gaining nukes? How does this work?
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America has a lot of internal problems to deal with. Those who kill George Floyd are innumerable and they’re at every corner of united states. Islamophobia and racism is growing at an alarming rate, but the idiots ones will not see anything wrong with their pseudo-democracy. They’re obsessed with the flaws of other countries. The world will continue to witness chaos and anachy until you Christians realise your destructive roles in the world.
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No, it was not innumerable people who killed George Floyd–this is *quite* false. And all of those involved have been arrested and charged. How does Iran being about to “wipe Israel off the map”, as they have vowed, make any of this better?
And how is racism in any way similar to “Islamophobia”? Race and ethnicity is intrinsic–Islam is an ideology. Does this apologist for Islamic savagery think that it is bigoted to criticize the horrors of Fascism, as well?
Why should we not be able to criticize the barbarism of Islam? Does Layi Adigun applaud “marrying” children. enslaving Infidels, and mass slaughtering non-Muslims? Probably so.
More, in reply to James Lincoln:
And yours is written from the right/ christian bigot. Have you ever asked yourself what this platform is all about? Is it not to promote your morbid ideology?
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This is of course quite false. There are devout Christians here, of course, but also Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, Agnostics, Atheists, and others. The idea that only Christians would have a problem with pious Muslims raping and murdering us or imposing brutal Shari’ah law on us is *quite* false.
This poster’s name is Nigerian. Does she have a problem with Muslims kidnapping, raping, and murdering Christians and animists there? Not so she says…
john smith says
An absolutely brilliant reply GI, you left no stone unturned.
gravenimage says
Thank you, John.
Sam says
gravenimage and othe4s who agree with him.
First and again, I’m using s phone to type, plus, I cannot find the “reply” button to answer, I think that Robert Spencer does not like to see real dialogues and debates, just islamophobic attacks based on ” lies and false information” about Islam and Muslims.
I’m not home where I have a nice computer, I’m at a hospital, hopefully I’ll exit in few days, then I’ll debate you all and prove you wrong and falsifiers, and believers of lies.
Till then, read the final saying of Mohammed, analyse it and let’s talk about that ….
As I keep saying, get some education, read different sources not a single one… don’t be fools.
gravenimage says
“Sam” wrote:
gravenimage and othe4s who agree with him.
First and again, I’m using s phone to type, plus, I cannot find the “reply” button to answer,
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“Sam” has claimed before that anything that is wrong with his comments has to do with his posts has to do with his using a phone, which is of course absurd. Many people use phones to comment–this may result in a few typos, but it does not of course explain “Sam’s” sickening apologia for the horrors of Islam.
And I have explained the posting system here to him at least twice previously–you can directly reply to posters for several iterations; after that, you just use the last reply button to reply to any subsequent comments on that one thread. This is not really complicated.
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I think that Robert Spencer does not like to see real dialogues and debates, just islamophobic attacks based on ” lies and false information” about Islam and Muslims.
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Well, this is just ludicrous. There have been much in excess of two million comments here since Jihad Watch was founded, and some of them do indeed involve Muslim apologists and even openly pro-Jihad thugs. What more could “Sam” wish for? Is he just sad that this isn’t a Jihad Da’wa site?
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I’m not home where I have a nice computer, I’m at a hospital, hopefully I’ll exit in few days, then I’ll debate you all and prove you wrong and falsifiers, and believers of lies.
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Well, I’m sorry to hear that “Sam” is in the hospital. (Hopefully not a Jihad “work accident”).
I’m eagerly awaiting “Sam’s” being able to show us in a few days how the Mullahs of Iran are really great guys, and that we are mistaken in being concerned about their threatening to “wipe Israel off the map” and vowing “Death to America”! If only “Sam” had his computer now, we would not have so long a wait!.
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Till then, read the final saying of Mohammed, analyse it and let’s talk about that ….
As I keep saying, get some education, read different sources not a single one… don’t be fools.
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Is “Sam” here referring to the final sermon of Muhammed, where he told Muslims that they had the right to beat their wives, because they are no better than captives and domestic animals? I certainly find *that* inspiring…sarc/off
It also affirms that Muslims cannot steal from other Muslims. but that Infidels are fair game.
Gourdhead says
Layi Adigun, you are full of goat crap.
Sam says
You are an intelligent individual, thanks for your comment, straight to the point with good knowledge.
Keep going, may God bless you ( whatever God you believe in) …
+++++ more power to you?
FYI says
Well you are not…..
You think you are but you are cognitively dissonant.
You contradict yourself constantly.
You are so consumed by hatred that it affects your thinking.
It is pretty obvious….
gravenimage says
What has Layi Adigun said that “Sam” is actually impressed by? Note that he’s got nothing. In reality, he is just glad to see another Muslim apologist here.
jule says
I checked once just how much business France, Germany, UK, Norway, Japan and more did business in Iran and how much profit they got. They are very entrenched and always were even years ago when sanctions were on. They ignored completely. Always, countries go for the profit$$ first over everything else. Thats another reason I hate for US Corporations to be in China, Mideast, Vietnam, Ukraine ETC.
Rueben Singh says
The French have short memories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
jewdog says
Time to rethink NATO. Western Europe is a self-annihilating collection of craven moonbats. They are dragging themselves down and if we don’t let go we’ll go down with them.
James Lincoln says
jewdog says,
“Time to rethink NATO.”
Spot on…
terry sullivan says
and abolish the UN and WEF–enemies both
gravenimage says
State Dept: UK, France opposing Iran sanctions an ‘abdication of duty.’ Pompeo: They’re ‘siding with the ayatollahs’
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Pompeo is not wrong.
jule says
They are making much money inside iran.
gravenimage says
Too true, but enabling the vicious Mullahs will of course not help western Europe in the long run.
Darioblaa@hotmail.com says
No more sanctions.
gravenimage says
What problem does this poster have with sanctions against Iran? Is he upset that the Mullahs don’t have a completely free hand in developing nukes and threatening their neighbors? Note he does not say.