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Earlier Thursday, the EU and Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and the UK issued a joint statement reaffirming their collective commitment to the Iran deal while also strongly hinting that US intrusion on Iran is unwelcome.
That statement came a day after Tehran announced it would suspend some of its commitments under the 2015 deal, a year after the US pulled out of the agreement. Other signatories to the deal have 60 days to negotiate with Iran over its concerns, including that the European members of the deal haven't done enough to uphold their own end of the deal and protect Iran from US sanctions.
US President Donald Trump responded to Wednesday's announcement by introducing a raft of new sanctions on anyone who trades with Iran in iron, steel, copper, aluminum, and related products, escalating the economic blockade of Tehran.
Then the USA could impose "economic sanctions" on Europe like those on Iran, but wouldn't. They'd hurt the USA badly.
So the USA would be absolutely unable to bully European countries.
Remember (I pointed it out on SOTT minutes ago), the USA is a totalitarian dictatorship. That is conclusively proved. Those who don't want to know the truth are easily fooled. Those who do, know or can learn, that Russia and China are democracies, even though of kinds alien to the West.
There's better infrastructure in China than the USA, but European businesses have missed out on building iit. There is more social equality, so the most highly moral businesses should prefer China over the USA.