Issues Under Fire: "45" Slaps Iran, Iran Slaps Back
With the entire world watching,"45" is in the process of decimating America's most precious and fundamental asset - its willingness and ability to keep its word from one administration to the next. After pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, reneging on Trans-Pacific Partnership, and demanding to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, Trump is now threatening to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Agreement. Unfortunately, the fact that these multilateral commitments took years of tough negotiation before world leaders would pledge to honor the terms is meaningless to someone with the scruples of a cad or a con artist. This is dangerous beyond measure.
Of all the takeaways one could find at this year's U.N. General Assembly to focus on, ours was America being called out as a nation not to be trusted, relied upon or followed. Donald Trump stood on the world stage and called the Iran Nuclear Deal an embarrassment to the United States. He stated in no uncertain terms that he intended to revisit, review and renegotiate the deal to America's satisfaction. Despite the fact that the Iran nuclear deal was agreed upon by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, and to date they've confirmed and certified Iran's full compliance through the International Atomic Energy Agency's rigorous inspection process, Donald Trump remains determined to undermine that progress.
Not taking this insult lightly, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani struck back by reminding the international community that the deal was endorsed by a Security Council resolution. If Donald Trump pulls the United States out of the deal, technically, the U.S. would be in violation of that resolution and in effect in violation of international law. In doing our homework, we found Rouhani's assertions to be correct and Donald Trump's positions to be dead wrong. Rouhani also maintains, the only nation that'll be hurt if the deal is nixed is the United States. Again, Rouhani is right. Trump would be dragging the United States down to a new low in terms of respect.
If Donald Trump follows through on his campaign promise to rip up the Iran Nuclear Agreement, he'll be doing irreparable damage to the United States' credibility on any issue going forward. This country will lose the trust of the world. And once that trust is lost, it can never be regained. The world will always be able to point to this time to confirm when America's word became worthless. When it's firmly established that no deal, agreement or commitment with the United States is guaranteed to be honored by succeeding administrations, that could be the death knell for this declining empire. No world leader in his or her right mind could ever take the United States seriously again.
Bottom line: Since one can only speculate as to why Trump would wantonly ruin the nation's reputation and stature by taking these actions, we could only surmise, he is hellbent on erasing everything former President Obama achieved during his eight years as Commander-in-Chief. And he's tenaciously committed to do it no matter what the cost. Podcast below.
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