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Pompeo: Iran sanctions will snap back at midnight on Sep. 20

Arab News
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:11 UTC

Sanctions on Iran will snap back at midnight GMT on Sep. 20, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday.

"The US triggered the 30-day process to restore virtually all UN sanctions on Iran after the Security Council failed to uphold its mission to maintain international peace and security. These sanctions will snap back at midnight GMT on September 20."

His tweet comes after 13 council members expressed their opposition to the US bid to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on Iran on Friday.

They argued that Washington's move is void given it is using a process agreed under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that it quit two years ago.

However, the US argues that it can trigger the process — known as snapback — because a 2015 Security Council resolution that sets out the nuclear deal still names it as a participant.

Comment: Does Washington have 'veto' leverage to trigger reinstatement of sanctions?

Pompeo cited the process for sanctions re-imposition outlined in council resolution that enshrined the nuclear deal. Under the terms of that resolution, if a participant in the deal accuses Iran of "significant non-performance," the council must vote affirmatively to continue sanctions relief. The U.S. would veto any such resolution.
"If any member of the UN Security Council introduces a resolution to continue sanctions relief, the U.S. will oppose it. If no resolution is introduced, the sanctions on Iran will still return on September 20. That's how UNSCR 2231 works."
The EU announced last Friday that the six remaining parties to the JCPOA will meet in Vienna on Sept. 1.

Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador Dmitry Polyansky tweeted Thursday:
"Under international law you can't withdraw from an agreement and then claim you can still benefit from its provisions. Under 'rules-based international order' where the rules are defined by the US this seems to be OK provided it serves US interests."

Pelosi calls Pompeo's RNC address 'appalling'; Donna Brazile 'loses it'

Martin Walsh
Conservative Brief
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lost it on Wednesday after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a powerful speech at the Republican's virtual convention. Pompeo delivered an address on Tuesday night while on a trip to Jerusalem Tuesday.

During an interview on MSNBC, Pelosi snapped when asked about Pompeo's speech and called it "appalling":

"Now he's doing just that thing, and then, of course, really sadly, discoloring our bipartisanship in terms of our support for Israel, which has always been bipartisan, and we always want it to be. The image is something that's going to say, look at us, we're here in Israel making a speech to the Republican National Convention, violating our values in terms of the bipartisanship and our support for Israel, violating in many ways what he told his own employees."

Pelosi also took a nasty shot at First Lady Melania Trump for holding her convention address at the Rose Garden, calling it "ridiculous."

Comment: Paloosi and Brazilla are living up to what we've come to expect...and more.

Kamela Harris will deliver counter to Trump's convention speech

Tal Axelrod
The Hill
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:15 UTC

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) will deliver a speech Thursday to counter President Trump's remarks at the Republican National Convention formally accepting the GOP presidential nomination.

Harris, the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee, will speak in Washington, D.C., "on President Trump's failures to contain COVID-19 and protect working families from the economic fallout" and the "Biden-Harris plan to contain COVID-19 and build a different path forward in America," former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign said in a press release.

Trump is planning to give his speech Thursday from the White House lawn, and Harris's remarks will serve as the Democratic Party's main counter to his appearance.

Biden and Harris both railed against Trump's leadership at last week's Democratic National Convention, a message they're anticipated to continue heading into the fall. "Donald Trump's failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods," Harris said last week.

Pompeo awaiting Iran sanctions snapback in his 'alternate parallel universe'

Press TV
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:00 UTC

Iran chides the US secretary of state for insisting that the UN Security Council's sanctions against the Islamic Republic will return in September as desired by Washington, although the odds are obviously stacked against the United States.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh mocked Mike Pompeo's intransigence in a tweet on Thursday after the US top diplomat alleged that the coercive measures will automatically "return on September 20."

13 members, incl. President of UNSC have declared that America has NO legal standing in the first place to recourse to 2231, as it's not a JCPOA participant.

Comment: As a sitting member of the UN Security Council, at best the US can veto a recommendation reinstating sanction relief. Is this enough to tank a decision by a subset of the council after abdicating its position on the committee?

Trump victory could oust Nancy Pelosi as Speaker

Liz Peek
The Hill
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:10 UTC

No one is more frantic over the possibility of a Trump victory in November than Nancy Pelosi.

Why? Because if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden goes down in flames, Pelosi will no longer be Speaker of the House — even if Democrats hold that chamber, as they likely will. You can count on it.

If President Trump is reelected, Pelosi and other establishment Democrats will be to blame. It was Pelosi and her peers who orchestrated the nomination of 77-year-old Biden, panicked that far-left candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) or Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) would be crushed in a general election.

As important, it has been Pelosi who has overseen the Democratic strategy of total and complete obstruction of Trump, and who most recently has been mum about the violence upending our nation's biggest cities.

It was Pelosi who pushed Russiagate, and then Ukrainegate and most recently PostOfficeGate to their absurd and dishonest conclusions. And it was Pelosi who permitted the House to embark on the fool's mission of impeaching the president late last year, even though it was crystal clear that the effort would not succeed. An effort, it should be said, that led to record fund-raising for Trump's campaign and a bump in his approval ratings.

Twitter suspends cancel culture prof Brett Weinstein's 'Articles of Unity' call for bipartisanship & BLOCKS website

RT
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:48 UTC

Unity 2020, a campaign launched by 'canceled' Evergreen College Professor Bret Weinstein to join the disaffected left and right to 'fix' US democracy, has been yanked from Twitter and had its website banned.

The campaign's Twitter account was suspended on Thursday night as US President Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party's nomination for the 2020 presidential race. Weinstein told his followers the account was disabled for "amplifying" the hashtag #JustSayNotoDonaldandJoe, which had been tweeted more than 11,000 times by the time @ArticlesofUnity got the ax.

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to step down amid health concerns

The Ahasi Shimbun
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:58 UTC

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe notified close associates in the government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Aug. 28 that he was stepping down due to health reasons.

He was scheduled to hold a news conference later the same day to explain his decision.

The sudden resignation comes just four days after Abe set a record for consecutive days served as prime minister, with 2,799 on Aug. 24.

Navalny: When useless idiots become useful (dead) idiots

Ronald Thomas West
Fort Russ News
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC

Vladamir Putin and Alexey Navalny

So, Navalny's Soros worshiping clique is asserting he has been poisoned. Immediately a plane is dispatched from Germany to snatch his body (lingering with a bit of inconvenient life) or better said, 'rescue' a gravely ill man from the nefarious Russian state; invoking the ghosts of Litvinenko, Nemtsov (oops, he was shot, not poisoned), and Skripal.

What do all of the above share in common?

1) None of them were in any sense a threat to Putin or the Russian state, in short, all of them had either outlived their usefulness (Litvinenko, Skripal) or never lived up to the expectations (Nemtsov, Navalny) of the West's propaganda machine (read manipulations by foreign intelligence agencies.)

2) All of them become more useful to the West's propaganda machine when dead, rather than appearing increasingly impotent, or irrelevant, while alive. How? Their deaths can be blamed on EVIL PUTIN!

Now, before we delve into the unthinkable, let's (merely for the sake of argument) all rollover and assume Navalny has been poisoned. But not necessarily by the Russian state.

Comment: See: It's unrealistic to speculate that the Kremlin wanted to kill Navalny

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NATO's "unified front" is at a breaking point

Danny Sjursen
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC

Last month, a Turkish warship came one step away from firing missiles at a French naval vessel off the coast of Libya. In response, Paris suspended its involvement in Operation Sea Guardian — a multinational maritime effort to provide security in the Mediterranean Sea and halt the arms trafficking fueling Libya's ongoing civil war. Initially, only eight member states — notably excluding both the U.S. and U.K. — supported France's official complaint. This was only the latest incident in the increasingly frequent — and exceedingly awkward — tensions between several of Washington's core North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies. Indeed, from South America to East Asia, NATO members stand divided over many critical foreign policy issues of the moment.

On the subject of NATO — as with much else — President Trump is obtuse and ill-informed. Only here he isn't exactly wrong. In fact, recent events raise serious questions about the 70-year old alliance's lingering relevance and utility — as in what, so to speak, NATO is for?

Sure, The Donald is hardly a bridge-builder, but the media's temptation to blame him alone for NATO's growing fissures ultimately misses the mark — and the backstory. While his foreign policy fiascos have widened its divisions, the alliance's inherent contractions and hypocrisies preceded Mr. Trump. Indeed, some of the current fracture traces back to NATO's complicated genesis; the rest, mainly, to the problematic pivot after the collapse of its justification-boogeyman — the Soviet Union — and its leading American member's hyper-imperial post-9/11 turn.

Mohammed bin Salman pulls out of planned meeting in Washington with Netanyahu

David Hearst
Middle East Eye
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:29 UTC

Saudi crown prince had been due to stage public meeting with Israeli prime minister but cancelled trip over fears details had been leaked, according to sources

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, pulled out of a planned visit to Washington DC next week to meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he feared that the news had leaked and that his presence in the US capital would become a "nightmare".

It had not yet been agreed whether the meeting between the crown prince and Netanyahu would have been recorded and then announced or conducted live in front of the cameras.

But those pushing for it to happen, which included US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, see the prospect of a handshake between the men as a way to relaunch Mohammed bin Salman's image as a young Arab peacemaker and shore up regional support for the US-brokered deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.

In the ensuing statement, the crown prince would have stopped short of announcing recognition of Israel, but the meeting itself would have been the strongest hint that the kingdom was also on a path towards normalising relations.

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Puppet Masters

Pompeo: Iran sanctions will snap back at midnight on Sep. 20

Pelosi calls Pompeo's RNC address 'appalling'; Donna Brazile 'loses it'

Kamela Harris will deliver counter to Trump's convention speech

Pompeo awaiting Iran sanctions snapback in his 'alternate parallel universe'

Trump victory could oust Nancy Pelosi as Speaker

Twitter suspends cancel culture prof Brett Weinstein's 'Articles of Unity' call for bipartisanship & BLOCKS website

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to step down amid health concerns

Navalny: When useless idiots become useful (dead) idiots

NATO's "unified front" is at a breaking point

Mohammed bin Salman pulls out of planned meeting in Washington with Netanyahu

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