{"id":372978,"date":"2018-08-11T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/punishing-iran-will-cost-a-fortune\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T16:00:04","slug":"punishing-iran-will-cost-a-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/punishing-iran-will-cost-a-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Punishing Iran Will Cost a Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump keeps vowing to create more jobs in America. \u00a0But his actions often speak differently.\u00a0 The most egregious example was Trump\u2019s cancellation of the multi-national Iran nuclear treaty that had been welcomed by the world as a major step to Mideast denuclearization.<\/p>\n

In abrogating the international treaty signed by the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, the US humiliated its allies and rivals who were strongly in favor of the accord.\u00a0 Iran had already handed 97% of its enriched uranium to Russia, shut down reactors and centrifuges, and allowed UN inspectors to run all over its nuclear facilities when Trump tore up the deal that had been under negotiation since 2015.<\/p>\n

Iran has been under a harsh US-led trade embargo since its 1979 revolution that was designed to cripple its economy and military and drive the people to rebel against their government.\u00a0 Washington used the same tactics \u2013 without success \u2013 against Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq and Fidel Castro\u2019s Cuba.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>So intense is the Trump administration\u2019s hatred for Islamic Iran that it decided to scrap the multinational nuclear deal that would have meant opening Iran to western commerce and a bonanza for US and European companies.\u00a0 The key element of the deal was to have been the sale of some 210 commercial jet airliners to Iran by the US and the European Union, a deal worth some $40-50 billion, not counting future sales of spare parts.<\/p>\n

The US embargo of Iran since 1979 has made it unable to modernize its commercial airline fleet.\u00a0 Iran was denied modern aircraft, spare parts, engines and instruments, leaving it with decaying aircraft from the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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President Trump keeps vowing to create more jobs in America. \u00a0But his actions often speak differently.\u00a0 The most egregious example was Trump\u2019s cancellation of the multi-national Iran nuclear treaty that had been welcomed by the world as a major step to Mideast denuclearization. In abrogating the international treaty signed by the US, Britain, France, Germany, […]<\/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-372978","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\/372978","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=372978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}