Trump Regime Pushing for Confrontation with Iran? (Part 3)
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zaif slammed the hostile presence of US forces “7,000 miles away from home” where they don’t belong, an unacceptable provocation.
Reportedly, Pompeo is set to defy reality by claiming the Trump regime never abandoned the JCPOA.
Maintaining the fiction that it remains a “participant state” aims to use the status it does not have to try maintaining a UN arms embargo on Iran via a Security Council resolution or threats of sanctions on nations selling conventional arms to the Islamic Republic.
The UN arms embargo expires in October. The Trump regime wants it remaining in place, Pompeo saying:
“We cannot allow the Islamic Republic of Iran to purchase conventional weapons in six months.”
“We are prepared to exercise all of our diplomatic options to ensure the arms embargo stays in place at the UN Security Council.”
The Trump regime drafted a Security Council resolution on this issue, Russia and China able to veto what they consider unacceptable.
By falsely claiming the US remains a JCPOA signatory, the Trump regime aims to enforce continuation of the anti-Iran arms embargo even if its Security Council resolution isn’t adopted.
Over the weekend, Pompeo falsely claimed “Iran’s space program is neither peaceful nor entirely civilian (sic),” adding:
Its “satellite launch vehicle and others launched before it incorporate technologies identical to, and interchangeable with, ICBM ballistic missiles.”
“No country has ever pursued an ICBM capability except for the purpose of delivering nuclear weapons (sic).”
Pompeo failed to explain that repeated IAEA inspections showed and continue to show that Iran’s legitimate nuclear program has no military component.
According to the Arms Control Association, ICBMs are weapons able to travel over 5,500 km.
Iran has none in its arsenal, its longest-range BM-25/Musudan ballistic missile able to travel a distance of about 2,500 km.
All Iranian missiles are designed to carry conventional warheads alone.
They’re for defense, not offense. Iran is at peace with its neighbors, polar opposite how the US, NATO and Israel operate.
Time and again, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism USA accuses other nations for its high crimes against them, notably Iran.
Its ruling authorities are committed to regional peace and stability in contrast to US war on humanity worldwide.
- Source : Stephen Lendman
