{"id":362587,"date":"2018-05-24T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pompeos-outrageous-speech-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:00:38","slug":"pompeos-outrageous-speech-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pompeos-outrageous-speech-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo\u2019s Outrageous Speech on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_102328\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102328\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-22-at-5.05.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"342\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Mark Taylor | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking at the Heritage Foundation this week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo practically declared war on Iran. His unprecedented threats against Iran went even beyond what President Trump had said in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the speech (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/remarks\/2018\/05\/282301.htm\">full transcript here<\/a>), JStreet wrote: \u201cWith their decision to violate the historic JCPOA arms control agreement, the president and his \u2018war cabinet\u2019 have created a strategic disaster of their own making and undone the major accomplishments of the previous administration. They have made the US, Israel and the world less safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short history of Iran\u2019s nuclear activities: 1957 to the JCPOA<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After 12 years of intensive talks, initially between Britain, France and Germany (the EU-3), and finally between Iran and the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany (P5+1), Iran and the leading world powers reached a landmark agreement. The nuclear deal (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) was the result of the efforts of the greatest experts in nuclear non-proliferation, including experts from the IAEA and departments of energy and intelligence service of all those countries.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s nuclear programme had started in 1957 with the help of the United States as a part of the Atoms for Peace program, when a \u201cproposed agreement for cooperation in research in the peaceful uses of atomic energy\u201d was announced.<\/p>\n<p>During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mohammad&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/23\/pompeos-outrageous-speech-on-iran\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Mark Taylor | CC BY 2.0 Speaking at the Heritage Foundation this week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo practically declared war on Iran. His unprecedented threats against Iran went even beyond what President Trump had said in the past. Commenting on the speech (full transcript here), JStreet wrote: \u201cWith their decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362587","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\/362587","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}