{"id":8028,"date":"2018-05-10T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavozlit.com\/es\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2018-05-10T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:51:08","slug":"trump-announces-withdrawal-of-his-country-from-iran-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2018\/05\/10\/trump-announces-withdrawal-of-his-country-from-iran-nuclear-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces withdrawal of his country from Iran nuclear deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump announced on 8 May the withdrawal of the United States from the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),<\/em>\u00a0and the restoration of sanctions against Tehran.<\/em><\/span>
\nBy Marcos Margarido.<\/strong>
\n 
\n\u201cThis was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made \u2026 I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he said in a statement at the White House, and that he would\u00a0\u201c<\/em>sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime.\u201d<\/em>
\nHe also said that\u00a0\u201c<\/em>the Iranian regime is the leading state sponsor of terror<\/em>\u201d and criticised its influence in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The terms of the deal<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The document, negotiated by the Obama administration and signed in 2015, sets a ceiling for Iran\u2019s enriched uranium stock \u2013 a material used to produce fuel for nuclear reactors and weapons \u2013 and reduces the number of centrifuges to enrich the material by two thirds for ten years.\u00a0Tehran has also pledged to modify a heavy water reactor so that it is not capable of producing plutonium \u2013 also used in atomic bombs.
\nIn exchange, the United States was committed to easing economic sanctions imposed on Iran, such as blocking state and Iranian assets abroad, ending the oil business and others like shipping, transportation, and finance.<\/p>\n

The reasons stated by Trump<\/strong><\/h4>\n

During the presidential election campaign, Trump had already announced his opposition to the deal.\u00a0In early January, he said he would leave it until 12 May if the Congress and the European powers did not correct its \u201cdisastrous flaws<\/em>.\u201d
\nHe claims that the agreement restricts Iran\u2019s nuclear activities for only a limited period (up to 2025), that the document, signed by the main imperialist powers \u2013 USA, France, Britain and Germany \u2013 as well as China and Russia, was not able to stop the Iranian development of ballistic missiles and, finally, that the US$ 100 billion, that were blocked in western banks and then released by the deal, were used to \u201cfund arms, terror and oppression\u201d in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

European governments and the deal<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A succession of leaders of European governments, such as the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Britain\u2019s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have been to Washington in recent weeks to try to persuade the US president to keep the agreement. According to them, the flaws alleged by Trump could be corrected using clauses in the accord itself. And that, without changing it, new sanctions could be imposed against the development of ballistic missiles and Iran\u2019s support for Hezbollah and its armed presence in Syria in defense of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.
\nAfter the US announcement of definitive withdrawal, the European countries signatories of the deal announced that they intend to keep the pact. In addition to trying to maintain the Iranian nuclear ban, they are keeping an eye on their oil supply. The announcement of the exit has already caused a rise in the barrel\u2019s price, which can be fatal to the maintenance of the weak European economic recovery.<\/p>\n

Iranian regime in crisis<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Iranian government reacted to Trump\u2019s threats before the final announcement with a mixture of demonstration of power and submission.\u00a0\u201cIf America leaves the nuclear deal, this will entail historic regret for it<\/em>,\u201d said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.\u00a0But he added: \u201cIf we can get\u00a0what\u00a0we want\u00a0from a\u00a0deal without\u00a0America,\u00a0then Iran will continue to remain committed to\u00a0the\u00a0deal<\/em>.\u201d
\nThat means that the central goal of Iran\u2019s government is not to regain political independence lost with the signing of the deal.\u00a0With it, Iran has renounced the right to have its own nuclear development, even if peaceful. And even if it were to produce atomic weapons, it should have the same right as the Western powers, China, Russia and Israel. What the government intends to do, instead, is to submit, not to America, but to the European powers, in exchange for the crumbs provided by oil exports. And the support of Russia and China to keep it in power at a time of violent clashes with the Iranian masses.
\nThe loosening of sanctions did not give Iran the relief the government hoped for. Its economy, totally centralized in the hands of the Ayatollahs, the army and the Revolutionary Guards, that is totally corrupt, has had serious problems.\u00a0Since the re-election of Rouhani in May 2017, the Iranian currency has lost 35 percent of its value.\u00a0It used to take 43,000 Rials to buy a dollar late last year, but it went up to 65,000 Rials before Trump\u2019s announcement. Iran\u2019s currency should drop even more now.
\nPolitically, things are not going well either.\u00a0The president\u2019s popularity plummeted as he failed to deliver on his electoral promises of social and economic improvements. His opponents within the regime, in the army and in the clergy, increased attacks against him.
\nHowever, the main element of instability comes from the streets. In December 2017, people\u2019s demonstrations that began in Mashad, the country\u2019s second city, spread to other regions.\u00a0Contrary to the 2009 demonstrations against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s electoral fraud, organized by the so-called Green Movement, which is made up of Tehran\u2019s middle classes, the last protests were led by impoverished popular sectors and workers squeezed by low wages.
\nDemonstrators aimed at reducing the rising cost of living, but also at toppling the increasingly corrupt government of the ayatollahs, shouting \u201cDown with Rouhani\u201d and \u201cDown with the Dictator\u201d, facing water cannons and tear gas bombs.\u00a0Days before, the president had submitted an austerity budget which cut benefits to the poor and raised fuel prices by 50%, among other measures.
\nThe situation has only worsened since then, as we have seen with the huge devaluation of the currency, resulting in increased inflation and prices. The government is sitting on a time bomb that it tries to disarm by keeping the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

Israel takes advantage of the situation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Israeli government, through Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has always been against the deal.\u00a0Days before its signature in 2015, he went to the United States to try to persuade US representatives to reject it.\u00a0However, it passed, but under the condition that the White House presented reports every 180 days that examined Iran\u2019s commitment.
\nSince Trump supported the nomination of Jerusalem as the Jewish state\u2019s capital, defying the Catholic and Muslim religions, which consider it a holy city of the three religions, Netanyahu returned to the offensive against the deal.\u00a0He gathered documents stolen from the Iranian government to prove that Tehran had lied when it informed the International Atomic Energy Agency about the country\u2019s nuclear situation in 2015. A government such as Netanyahu, based on ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and continuing massacres in the Gaza Strip, has no morals to condemn any other liar.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s True Objective<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Trump was elected for his promises to increase jobs to American workers, wrapped in a drastic reduction of their living conditions caused by laws approved by the Republican own Trump\u2019s party, but also by Obama\u2019s Democrats.\u00a0To this end, he accused politicians of both parties of being an elite away from the people and promised to bring factories that had moved abroad in search of more profits back to their country.
\nIts foreign policy is to a large extent fitted to this purpose when, for example, it imposes taxes on imported products.\u00a0But Trump is the boss, wanted or not by its own bourgeoisie, of the most powerful imperialist nation on the planet and has a larger goal regarding foreign policy:\u00a0To return to America an undisputed role of world\u2019s police, which had been partially lost due to the defeat in Iraq, forcing Obama to withdraw US troops from there.
\nDuring his two administrations, Obama tried to maintain this role through a foreign policy based on negotiations, a greater distance from Israel and an approach to European imperialism, without abandoning surgical aerial bombardments.\u00a0When necessary, he delegated to other countries the deployment of troops, as Lula did shamefully in the occupation of Haiti.\u00a0His biggest achievement was the deal with Iran, after two years of intense negotiations.\u00a0It condenses Obama\u2019s three diplomacy characteristics.
\nNow, Trump tries to return absolute hegemony to the United States using the armed threat, as against North Korea, and attacks, albeit timid and with previous warning, as against Bashar al-Assad.\u00a0However, the aim is not to go to war, but to obtain agreements under the best possible conditions to completely subject the other nations to an even greater colonization. Regardless of the methods used by the \u201ctwo faces of imperialism,\u201d Obama and Trump, the goal is one: to secure world power and ever-greater profits for its multinationals.
\nIn the case of Iran, Trump told his desperate European counterparts that by breaking the current agreement, Iran will return to the table of negotiations in worse conditions.\u00a0It is a gamble that has not yet won, it will take some time to know.\u00a0The position of the European signatory countries to keep the deal can hamper Trump\u2019s goals because they also do not want US imperialism to \u201creign\u201d the world alone again.\u00a0They prefer Obama\u2019s style, which gave them room for negotiation.\u00a0But if the Ayatollahs\u2019 submission matches that of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, we can wait for a Trump victory.<\/p>\n

The Middle East is at the center of the dispute<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The beginning of Trump\u2019s involvement in the Middle East \u2013 his stance on Jerusalem, the bombing of al-Assad\u2019s bases in Syria, the critique of Iran\u2019s involvement \u2013 seems to show that any future negotiation will have the Middle East at its center.
\nIt is necessary to stabilize the region.\u00a0Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine have undergone social instability for years, with no prospect of a solution.\u00a0Iraq fell into Iran\u2019s sphere of influence after Bush\u2019s defeated US invasion and can no longer be considered a single state, with the occupation of part of its territory by the Islamic State (though already greatly weakened) and the Kurdish territory practically liberated.
\nThe civil war in Syria, after seven years, has no solution in sight.\u00a0Although the revolutionary rebels have lost many territories after massacres carried out jointly by Assad, Hezbollah and Russia, with the complicit omission of imperialism, the revolutionary process continues, sometimes with surprising vigor.\u00a0Syria with Assad is unfeasible as a solution, so is Syria without Assad, but under the influence of Russia and Iran.\u00a0Still less a victory of the revolution.\u00a0It is, therefore, necessary to intervene to ensure control of the region and the hegemony of Israel, even if it requires continued attacks on the Palestinians to prevent another intifada.
\nFinally, Yemen is undergoing a troubled turmoil that may affect the main US ally in the Muslim world, Saudi Arabia.\u00a0Not coincidentally, Trump accuses Iran of funding the revolt in Yemen.
\nIn this small region, an important match of world class struggle is being played.\u00a0The result is not certain amid increasing polarisation.\u00a0The return to the spotlight of the powerful Iranian working class, muzzled by the regime-controlled \u201ctrade unions,\u201d and of popular sectors that took to the streets in 2017, will be instrumental in ending the ayatollahs\u2019 dictatorship and the goals of US imperialism in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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