General Soleimani was a very bad man, in charge of operations that killed scores of Americans, plus civilians and military members from throughout the Middle East. Of course, the Trump haters took the side of Iran when President Trump authorized his assassination. Interestingly, almost no news services have covered Iran’s threats other than Fox News and the Times Of Israel. One would think that a nation threatening the President of The United States would be important news, eh?
Iran says killers of top general Soleimani, including Trump, ‘not safe on Earth’
Iran’s judiciary chief warned Friday that Qassem Soleimani’s killers will “not be safe on Earth,†as the Islamic Republic began marking the first anniversary of the top general’s assassination in a US strike.
Ebrahim Raisi, speaking at an event in Tehran to pay tribute to Soleimani, said not even US President Donald Trump, who ordered the strike, was “immune from justice.â€
Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad airport on January 3, 2020, ratcheting up tensions between decades-old enemies the United States and Iran.
“They will witness severe revenge. What has come so far has only been glimpses†of it, Raisi told the gathering at Tehran University.
“Do not presume that someone, as the president of America, who appeared as a murderer or ordered a murder, may be immune from justice being carried out. Never,†he said. “Those who had a role in this assassination and crime will not be safe on Earth.â€
So, just wondering if China Joe will warn Iran not to mess with Trump and other Americans, not to attempt to harm/kill any of them, or will he blow their threats off in an attempt to curry Iran’s favor to reinstate Obama’s Iran Deal, which Iran is reneging on
Iran Tells U.N. Agency It Will Enrich Uranium Back To Pre-Nuclear Deal Level Of 20%
Iran says it intends to start enriching uranium to 20% at its Fordow nuclear facility, exceeding regulations set by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action known as the Iran nuclear deal, as first reported by Reuters. Iran has previously suggested this increase could be a possibility.
The nuclear deal includes regulations that Iran cannot enrich uranium past 3.67% and that it specifically cannot conduct any enrichment at Fordow, which is located beneath a mountain near the city of Qom.
Iran has already breached parts of the agreement since the Trump administration withdrew in 2018, including increasing enrichment of uranium to 4.5%. Bringing enrichment to 20% would be the highest the country has gone since the agreement was established in 2015. In order to manufacture a nuclear weapon, it must hit 90%. (snip)
The law also vows to stop U.N. nuclear facility inspections if oil and banking sanctions on Iran are not removed by February.
Even if Trump pulled the U.S. out, all the other nations were still in it and giving Iran what they want. Now Iran wants more, and will demand sanctions be removed and threaten the increases in uranium enrichment and stopping inspections if they don’t get it, which is all probably aimed at China Joe as he takes office (yeah, it’s going to happen unless some big, whopping evidence is shown). And Iran is threatening Trump and the others. What does China Joe do? Kowtow to Iran, or defend Americans? Especially since Iran has consistently trotted out their “Death to America” stuff, even after Obama signed the Iran Deal.
Actually, the UK, France, and Germany also de facto abandoned the JCPOA, too, by going along with all US sanctions. The JCPOA is a dead letter, and it no longer restricts anyone, including Iran. Iran gradually abandoned one article of the agreement after another to pressure the Europeans into keeping it, but they refused.
Reactivation of the JCPOA will require a new set of negotiations. Iran’s minimum position is likely that all sanctions cease, and that no new sanctions be put it place. Iran might demand compensation for the damages caused by the sanctions.
Other possible demands are a substantial reduction of US/NATO forces in the Persian Gulf and reduction or elimination of Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
Biden will have a major job getting a new JCPOA.
Let’s say that sometime after January 20th, the Iranians succeed in sending an assassination team to the United States, and they succeed in killing Donald Trump. Large swaths of the American public, quite probably including two of the frequent commenters on this fine site, would cheer such an event.
Then Joe Biden would be left with a huge decision: how would he respond to the assassination of a former President by a foreign enemy, on American soil? A strongly worded letter? A United Nations resolution, which, given the UN, would probably fail anyway?
The only appropriate response would be to turn Tehran and Qom into radioactive black holes in the ground, but Mr Biden would not have the balls to do that.