Monday, April 23, 2018

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 23, 2018


Michael Knigge, DW: Can Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron save the Iran nuclear deal?

During separate talks with President Donald Trump this week, Macron and Merkel will urge the US to stick to the Iran nuclear deal. In an interview with Fox News, the French leader warned there is no "Plan B."

When French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet President Donald Trump in the White House within days of each other, it will represent the most high profile European push yet to try to convince him to remain in the Iran nuclear accord, which he has repeatedly branded as the "worst deal ever."

The Franco-German charm offensive is certainly the most visible effort to prevent the Trump administration from pulling out of the deal which was signed in 2015. But it is only the tip of the iceberg.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 23, 2018

Is Iran really a nuclear threat? -- Mersiha Gadzo, Al Jazeera

Iran's Futile Gesture Mirrors Venezuela's Economic Idiocy -- Simon Constable, Forbes

How Mike Pompeo Stole the North Korea Show -- Michael Fuchs & Abby Bard, National Interest

Why a Trump-Kim Deal Has a Good Shot -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Erdoğan tries to fix his election -- Akram Belkaïd, Le Monde Diplomatique

Syrian opposition says U.S. cannot afford to leave Syria yet -- Sarah Dadouch, Reuters

Remembering Syria Before the War -- Caroline Kitchener and Karen Yuan, The Atlantic

Israel, Palestinians return to conflicting narratives -- Uri Savir, Al-Monitor

Have China-Australia ties reached a new low? -- Charli Shield, DW

How China Is Buying Its Way Into Europe -- Andre Tartar, Mira Rojanasakul and Jeremy Scott Diamond, Bloomberg

Merkel's Final Act -- Philipp Rotmann, National Interest

Crossing Divides: Europe 'more split' than decade ago -- Valeria Perasso, BBC

Armenia's Peaceful Revolution Is a Lesson for Putin -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

The Foreign Leaders Trump Favors -- Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic

CIA Releases Morell Memo Clearing Haspel on Destroyed Tapes -- The Cipher Brief

Is this the way to a peaceful world? -- John Lloyd, Reuters

3 comments:

fred said...

Seems then that many nations leaders want to save this deal but that Trump and his (mostly) GOP do not. Iran says bad things will happen if we dump the deal...better minds than mine can offer their astute opionions here

B.Poster said...

It will require better minds than mine as well. I think the bottom libe is though unless POTUS has support from our "allies" to do so I don't think he will attempt to alter the deal. While it has flaws, it appears we are stuck with it. The best bet might be to work constructively with Russia and China to obtain their assistance in ensuring Iranian cooperation. As for bad things, Iran seems to want to bad things to us regardless of the deal. I'd like to get this moved to some sort of UN tribunal whereby we could resolve this once and for all. I don't Iran is interested in such an approach.

Anonymous said...

Trump didn’t bat an eye lash in ditching the Paris agreement. It wasn’t a treaty as it could never get thru the Senate. The Iran deal is the same deal. Even worse Obama lied about the Iran deal.

I expect Trump to ditch this deal as it serves no American purpose to pretend the deal slows down Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons.