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Trump and Iran

Monday morning in an all caps tweet, Trump foolishly threatened Iran with war over Twitter.  He is once again playing games with America’s national security and making the world less safe.  He is manufacturing another crisis, at a time when we are already facing increasing isolation from the international community.

Remember, it was Donald Trump and his administration that abandoned the Iran deal.  He sacrificed our security to satisfy his political base. The facts show that the Iran Deal was working, and the entire international community is a better place for it.

The Iran Deal reduced the nuclear threat, and is undoubtedly in the best interests of both the United States and the international community at-large. The facts and evidence show that the Iran Deal was working: Continue reading “Trump and Iran”

Trump May Have Already Triggered a Cyberwar with Iran: Report

The following article by Cody Fenwick was posted on the AlterNet website May 11, 2018:

Many people warned against Trump’s decision to violate the Iran deal.

Credit: Michael Vadon

Iran already redirected its cyberwarfare tactics within a day of President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would no longer abide by the multilateral agreement meant to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, according to a new report from the New York Times. These moves could foreshadow increasing tensions between the two countries in the wake of the destruction of the deal, as many had warned.

Reporter Nicole Perlroth found that the security firm CrowdStrike reported an increase in Iranian cyberattacks targeting diplomats of American allies following the announcement. These attacks included sending malware to “diplomats who work in the foreign affairs offices of United States allies and employees at telecommunications companies in an attempt to infiltrate their computer systems,” the report said. Continue reading “Trump May Have Already Triggered a Cyberwar with Iran: Report”

Analysis: Trump’s Iran Policy Unmoored From Facts

The following article by John M. Donnelly was posted on the Roll Call website May 9, 2018:

Credit: AP/Evan Vucci

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. government would drop out of the 2015 multinational agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear activities. His White House speech included inaccurate statements and omissions of fact that reflect either misunderstanding of the accord or an effort to distort the historical record.

Violations that aren’t

“At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction, that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program,” Trump said. Actually, it was the concern that Iran might be creating the ability to build weapons that led to the 2015 deal. Continue reading “Analysis: Trump’s Iran Policy Unmoored From Facts”

Trump’s claim that Iran could build nuclear weapons in seven years

The following article by Salvador Rizzo was posted on the Washington Post website May 8, 2018:

President Trump is vastly over simplifying what Iran can do seven years after the nuclear deal was implemented. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

“In seven years, that deal will have expired, and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons. That’s not acceptable. Seven years is tomorrow.”
— President Trump, discussing the Iran nuclear deal in a White House news conference, April 30, 2018

Trump has never liked the Iran nuclear deal and may decide to withdraw the United States from further participation. The president says he will announce his decision Tuesday.

Whatever he decides, Trump said, the international agreement would expire in seven years anyway, and Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons. Continue reading “Trump’s claim that Iran could build nuclear weapons in seven years”

6 Countries Trump Has Already Insulted And Provoked

The following article by Steven Rosenfeld was posted on the National Memo website February 5, 2017:

President Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, at the Homeland Security headquarters. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Two weeks into Donald Trump’s belligerent presidency, one must ask: Where will this administration’s launch its first serious international conflict?

The White House’s announcement Friday of narrow economic sanctions against Iran, in response to its dumb test firing of a missile, came after Trump made it sound like Iran had done something outsized and horrific. It hadn’t. Still, the president tweeted hours before announcing the sanctions, “Iran is playing with fire” and, “They don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!” Continue reading “6 Countries Trump Has Already Insulted And Provoked”