Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC): “Whether this is mere bluster or portends a potential October surprise remains to be seen but anyone opposed to more reckless wars should be on high alert.”

https://alaska-native-news.com/trump-critics-european-allies-challenge-pompeo-claim-about-snapback-of-un-sanctions-on-iran/51243/

“With a track record of failure on Iran, the Trump administration’s spin machine appears to be going into overdrive heading into November,” Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), declared in a statement Saturday.

“Whether this is mere bluster or portends a potential October surprise remains to be seen but anyone opposed to more reckless wars should be on high alert.”

“The administration’s claims that it has successfully snapped back U.N. sanctions on Iran this evening are a farce that defy the international community and a basic comprehension of facts,” he said.

“Having been rejected repeatedly by our erstwhile negotiating partners at the U.N. Security Council, the Trump administration wants to pretend that U.N. sanctions are back in place.

They seem to have deluded themselves, but the real world will remain unconvinced.”

Putting Pompeo’s stunt into the context of the administration’s Iran policy, Abdi added that “ultimately, Trump’s efforts to kill the deal by a thousand cuts have been defeated—for now—because he never had a realistic alternative and never listened to and entertained the views of close allies.

The administration simply thinks diplomacy is accomplished through brute force, which has only secured their isolation on an issue the U.S. has historically had significant multilateral support.”

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Also

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/21/trump-admin-unilaterally-imposes-un-sanction-on-iran/

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/21/iran-offers-full-prisoner-exchange-with-us/