Iran test-fires ballistic missile for first time in 2018, officials say......

[Crepitus]

He is. You just don't have a sophisticated enough grasp of how these things work and plan out to think two steps ahead. Turn off the CNN and MSNBC and look deeper.

Take time to learn about how nation states really act and why.

LMAO!!!!

Seriously truly loling right now.

[Ransom]

Crepitus without his CNN is like a crack addict without his crack.

[jimmyz]

Trump backed out of any agreement with Iran, why should they care what draft dodger Donnie says? North Korea is laughing at him too. Stop reading Fox it is BS from the choir boys and girls. Right now Donnie is waiting for his boyfriend Vlad to tell him how to puff out his chest.

You often post foul balls due to your TDS.

[jimmyz]

Trump tells Iran he will sit down and talk with them.

Iran tells Trump they will talk to him if he doesn't impose sanctions.

Sanctions move forward.

Iran fire a ballistic missile.

This all seems perfectly normal in tit-fo-tat foreign relations actions by adversarial nations. Only the loons and kooks will jump up and down looking for a way to point at Trump.

[Ethereal]

You know we already had a diplomatic solution right? tRump blew it up.

Right, and in doing so, Trump humiliated Rouhani and the Iranian moderates in front of their entire country, handing a victory to the hardliners who claim negotiation with the US is futile. But Iran-haters know absolutely nothing about Iran except that some of them occasionally chant "death to America". Yet Trump's decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Iran deal is exactly what the "death to America" crowd wanted to happen. Now they're using Trump's withdrawal to attack Rouhani and promote a more hardline position.

Iranian Hardliners’ ‘I-Told-You-So’ Moment

Three years ago, Iranians celebrated in the streets of Tehran after a deal was struck between their government and the P5+1 countries to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Three years later, there were once again celebrations in Iran after US President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the nuclear deal—formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This time hardliners in parliament set fire to a photo of an American flag and chanted, “We burned America! We burned the JCPOA!”

Hardline newspaper Kayhan echoed similar sentiments on Trump’s May 8 decision to ditch the deal that was brokered by the P5+1 countries—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany—with Iran. “Trump tears apart the nuclear deal; It is time to set it afire!” was the headline in Kayhan. The state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) referred to Trump as “the troublemaker.”

Hardline Iranian government officials followed a similar line of commentary.

One thing you can always count on from neocons and other US imperialists is that they know precious little about the countries they want to destroy beyond a few soundbites that were fed to them by the military-industrial complex.

[MisterVeritis]

You know we already had a diplomatic solution right? tRump blew it up.

Capitulation *is* a diplomatic solution. Fortunately, President Trump withdrew from it.

[MisterVeritis]

Right, and in doing so, Trump humiliated Rouhani and the Iranian moderates in front of their entire country, handing a victory to the hardliners who claim negotiation with the US is futile. But Iran-haters know absolutely nothing about Iran except that some of them occasionally chant "death to America". Yet Trump's decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Iran deal is exactly what the "death to America" crowd wanted to happen. Now they're using Trump's withdrawal to attack Rouhani and promote a more hardline position.



One thing you can always count on from neocons and other US imperialists is that they know precious little about the countries they want to destroy beyond a few soundbites that were fed to them by the military-industrial complex.

There are no moderates. Nice try.

[Crepitus]

Right, and in doing so, Trump humiliated Rouhani and the Iranian moderates in front of their entire country, handing a victory to the hardliners who claim negotiation with the US is futile. But Iran-haters know absolutely nothing about Iran except that some of them occasionally chant "death to America". Yet Trump's decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Iran deal is exactly what the "death to America" crowd wanted to happen. Now they're using Trump's withdrawal to attack Rouhani and promote a more hardline position.



One thing you can always count on from neocons and other US imperialists is that they know precious little about the countries they want to destroy beyond a few soundbites that were fed to them by the military-industrial complex.

Agree, was listening to some middle East policy experts discuss that very thing yesterday.

[jimmyz]

Iranian moderates are a con and useful tool used to get Iranians a better deal and always have been. The Muslim edict to lie to your enemy without it being a sin is ingrained in their negotiation tactics.

[MMC]

You know we already had a diplomatic solution right? tRump blew it up.

That is what happens to a diplomatic solution that doesn't solve the problem, and allows Iran to still proceed with their quest for nukes. Note that down for future reference. So you don't repeat your performance.