{"id":360268,"date":"2018-05-08T18:49:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/niac-trumps-reckless-decision-puts-us-on-path-to-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-05-08T18:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:49:47","slug":"niac-trumps-reckless-decision-puts-us-on-path-to-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/niac-trumps-reckless-decision-puts-us-on-path-to-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"NIAC: Trump’s Reckless Decision Puts US on Path to War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/b>
Contact: Trita Parsi
Phone: 202-386-6325
Email: tparsi@niacouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Washington, DC \u2013 NIAC President Trita Parsi issued the following statement in response to reports that President Trump declared he would snap back all nuclear-related sanctions under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, and impose new sanctions:<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump has committed what will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-sabotage in America\u2019s modern history. He has put the United States on a path towards war with Iran and may trigger a wider regional war and nuclear arms race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a crisis of choice. Trump has taken a functioning arms control deal that prevented an Iranian nuclear bomb and turned it into a crisis that can lead to war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not America first, this is Trump leasing out America\u2019s foreign policy interests to the highest bidder. The only parties applauding this move are Benjamin Netanyahu and Mohammed Bin Salman, who have consistently chosen to undermine regional security to advance their own shortsighted political fortunes. Trump\u2019s reckless decision is a betrayal of the national interests of the United States of America that could haunt us for generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only has Trump opened a pandora\u2019s box of consequences in the region, we now know the administration hired the private Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube to target former U.S. officials who supported the agreement. This Nixonian campaign was likely an illegal attempt to discredit the Iran deal. Anything short of a full investigation by Congress and the Justice Department of Trump\u2019s efforts with Black Cube would be an affront to our democratic system.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps the most absurd aspect of President Trump\u2019s Iran policy is his attempt to claim solidarity with the Iranian people, even as he bans Iranians from the US and his top advisors openly support the MEK terrorist group that is universally reviled by Iranians. The Iranian people overwhelmingly supported the nuclear deal, at least until the sanctions relief that was promised failed to materialize, and will be the party most impacted by Trump\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany were hopeful that the nuclear deal would facilitate broader change in Iranian society over time by empowering moderate forces in their demand for social and economic justice. By diminishing the excuse of sanctions and raising expectations for economic improvement, the nuclear deal appears to have added pressure on Iran\u2019s leaders to meet the public\u2019s political expectations. However, a potential opening for accelerated progress in Iran has now been slammed shut by Trump, an action that will redirect attention from the Iranian government to the United States. This will not just empower hardliners, it will force Iran\u2019s political elite to paper over fissures on key social and political issues while cracking down further on any dissent. This is potentially the biggest crime of Trump\u2019s decision \u2013…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Trita ParsiPhone: 202-386-6325Email: tparsi@niacouncil.org Washington, DC \u2013 NIAC President Trita Parsi issued the following statement in response to reports that President Trump declared he would snap back all nuclear-related sanctions under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, and impose new sanctions: \u201cDonald Trump has committed what will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}