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At the Heritage Foundation this morning, the new Secretary of State pledged never to “repeat the mistakes of past administrations” and rejected entirely the effort to “renegotiate the JCPOA,” the executive agreement created by the Obama administration. Instead, Pompeo offered to open full diplomatic and economic ties with Tehran, but only if they comply with twelve “basic requirements” for non-proliferation and the end of state-sponsored terrorism: If Iran agrees to US "requirements," Pompeo says US prepared to end all principal components of its sanctions; re-establish full diplomatic and trade relations; and assist in modernization of Iran's economy. pic.twitter.com/R0zMBARAb1 — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 21, 2018 Otherwise, Iran will face a much tougher sanctions regime — and presumably, so would anyone else doing business with them: Sec. of State Pompeo vows to hit Iran with “strongest sanctions in history” if its government does not change course. pic.twitter.com/y2k4q1BH7c — NBC News (@NBCNews) May 21, 2018 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is threatening to place “the strongest sanctions in history” on Iran if its government doesn’t change course. Pompeo on Monday called for a new nuclear agreement with Iran following President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. He says the Trump administration prefers for it to be a treaty that is ratified by Congress. Pompeo is laying out an onerous list of 12 “basic requirements” demands on Iran that he says should be included. He says Iran must “stop enrichment” of uranium and never preprocess plutonium. Iran must also allow nuclear “unqualified access to all sites throughout the country.” Pompeo says Iran must also “release all U.S. citizens,” end support for Houthi rebels in Yemen, “withdraw all forces” from Syria and stop threatening Israel. Iran’s not likely to agree to any of this, of course, especially about Israel. The mullahcracy in Tehran has its mission to destroy Israel and to spread its Shi’a Islam to dominate the region. Its ultimate goal is control over Mecca and Medina, which makes Saudi Arabia a higher priority than even Israel or propping up Bashar al-Assad in Syria, at least for Assad’s sake. Their encirclement strategy around Riyadh is too important to worry about diplomatic and economic engagement with “the Great Satan,” even if it was nice for a while not to have economic obstruction from the US. The real target for this speech wasn’t Tehran, though. It was the capitals of Europe, especially Berlin, Paris, and London. Pompeo intended to lay out the case that the Obama administration and the P5+1 group essentially funded Iran’s aggression in the region over the last few years with the execrable JCPOA, and that they are responsible now for cutting off that flow of funds in order to slow Tehran’s encirclement strategy: Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, is expected to call on European countries to help ramp up economic pressure on Iran as he outlines America’s ‘Plan B’ to the nuclear deal. Delivering his first major foreign policy speech since taking the job, Mr Pompeo will double down on the United States’ decision to quit the agreement earlier this month. He is expected to frame the 2015 deal as allowing Iran to increase its malign influence across the Middle East on the back of funding from renewed trade with the West. Mr Pompeo is also expected to urge other nations to join America in reimposing economic sanctions on the regime in a bid to bring it back to the negotiating table. Pompeo wants to underscore just how serious the Trump administration is about putting the shackles back on the Iranian regime. The existing, re-imposed sanctions will already put European businesses at risk for sustaining major economic damage if they continue to work with Iran. Pompeo made it clear in his speech today that the US does not intend to find ways to avoid that damage. The “strongest sanctions in history” only work as long as the US enforces them strongly enough to make them work as deterrents. The best way for Europe to avoid getting hurt in that exchange is to join up with the US in imposing them. This won’t prompt any immediate change from either Iran or our allies. It’s a marker laid down by Pompeo and Donald Trump, not yet an action in itself. Our allies will try to work Pompeo and Trump to mitigate those consequences, and perhaps Trump will be willing to negotiate around the edges. But Pompeo’s making it clear that the US plans to take a very hard line on Iran, and not just in nuclear-weapons proliferation. Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 11. #4. To: Tooconservative (#0) Pompeo to Iran: Get ready for "strongest sanctions in history" Pompeo to Americans: Get ready for "$4.00 a gallon gas!!!" Jameson  posted on  2018-05-22   7:35:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #5. To: Jameson (#4) Pompeo to Americans: Get ready for "$4.00 a gallon gas!!!" A $1 gas tax hike would add $2 trillion in revenue and put us in surplus territory. So let's do it. Vicomte13  posted on  2018-05-22   12:36:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #7. To: Vicomte13, Jameson (#5) A $1 gas tax hike would add $2 trillion in revenue and put us in surplus territory. I think Trump is likely to get a gas/diesel tax increase at the federal level. He did promise more infrastructure. Probably 10-20 cents. Our shale oil operations are already setting records, topping all the production records of the last century. America can no longer be blackmailed over oil supply. We haven't even touched the real mother lode of oil out on the west coast. Just the west Texas and North Dakota and Canadian fields will keep us busy for decades. But just increase the price of gas (excluding taxes) by even 50¢/ga. and you would see all the wells that were shuttered when the price of oil got down under $60/barrel come back online. And the result would be rivers, lakes, a veritable OCEAN of American oil. We wouldn't be able to load the tankers for export fast enough. Every highway and rail line would be full of oil tankers. All our tank farms would be filled to the brim (well, they actually already are!). It would be a petrochemical madhouse, like a Rockefeller wet dream. The Iranians would be ruined. Russia would be ruined. Even the Saudis and rich Gulf oil states would be ruined over the long run. And we could keep it up for at least a century too. Tooconservative  posted on  2018-05-22   14:51:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #9. To: Tooconservative (#7) And all of that hypercheap energy could be poured into desalination, to turn the Mojave green, and turn the Mexican desert green and, through foreign aid, the Sahara also - thereby not only ending world hunger and dramatically reducing the bite of poverty for the whole planet, but also sopping up massive quantities of greenhouse gases, making everybody happy - even the desert rodents. Vicomte13  posted on  2018-05-22   14:55:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #10. To: Vicomte13 (#9) And all of that hypercheap energy could be poured into desalination, to turn the Mojave green, and turn the Mexican desert green and, through foreign aid, the Sahara also - thereby not only ending world hunger and dramatically reducing the bite of poverty for the whole planet, but also sopping up massive quantities of greenhouse gases, making everybody happy - even the desert rodents. I think the projects to capture wind/solar excesses (mostly wind at this point) and use them to pump vast amounts of water uphill to use later in power generation is the most promising way to move ahead with green energy. It is also possible that next-gen batteries will come online. Tesla's big battery bank in Australia has exceeded all expectations and those are just smart lithium battery banks. Desalination is still very very very energy intensive. We need to use a lot less fresh water from ground sources. Our aquifers are being depleted. Many other countries, like Iran and China, are already in a water crisis, drilling wells 2-3 miles deep now. The same is happening in California. There is not enough reporting on this. Tooconservative  posted on  2018-05-22   15:07:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #11. To: Tooconservative (#10) Solar is free. Wind is free. Tides are free. Volcanic geothermal is free. Wherever there are deserts, there is vast solar energy. Many deserts are located right beside tropical and subtroplical oceans. Take free sunlight and turn it into fresh water, making the desert not a desert anymore, feeding the world, and creating all sorts of employment for the poor everywhere. It's what Jesus would do...if Jesus were a macro-economist. Vicomte13  posted on  2018-05-22   15:28:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 11. #12. To: All (#11) Solar is free. Wind is free. Tides are free. Volcanic geothermal is free. I know it's not really "free" - you have to spend money on the physical plant to capture it. But jeez, all you need to do to boil water and desalinate it the low tech way is use freaking MAGNIFYING GLASSES to focus the sun's rays on tanks of water. You don't have to use membranes and efficient methods. You can use First Century tech and a hand crank to turn the angle of the glass every half hour or so - employing some guy to do it. Vicomte13  posted on  2018-05-22 15:30:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #13. To: Vicomte13 (#11) Solar is free. In the West where the vast majority of solar is located, its capacity is almost entirely devoted to meeting domestic needs. A lot of it is just for A/C in the summer months. Which isn't a bad thing but we can't really look at solar as a source of major green energy surpluses on the scale that you need for salination. Or for providing green power to the developing Third World. Solar may be free (amortized over its 25 year life) but it is already spoken for in the energy economy and that won't change any time soon. Tooconservative  posted on  2018-05-22 15:45:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   End Trace Mode for Comment # 11. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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