By Eisa Kameli

A recipe for disaster or a path towards World Peace?

New York - On May 8, 2018, President Trump officially announced his decision to exit the “Iran Deal” known as the JCPOA – Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – that was struck between Iran and P5+1 in 2015. The U.S. President’s view of this deal, considered from his very initial comments as a presidential candidate, served as a great indicator of the new U.S. administration’s broader change of course with regards to the conduct of diplomacy that would be sought under his leadership; a so- called direction that needs to be dealt with in a precise way.

Trump seeks to humiliate Iran by offering talks: ex-diplomat

TEHRAN - Hamid Reza Asefi, a former Iranian diplomat, has said that U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to humiliate Iran by proposing negotiation with the Islamic Republic.

Turkish diplomat: It is ‘impossible’ to stop buying oil from Iran

TEHRAN - Riza Hakan Tekin, Ankara’s ambassador to Tehran, has said that it is “impossible” for Turkey to stop purchasing Iran’s oil.

Sherman: With every threat Trump tweets the Iran deal ‘looks better and better’

‘I was wrong’ that Iran would violate the JCPOA, Sherman says

Wendy Sherman, the former senior U.S. nuclear negotiator with Iran, says with every threats that Donald Trump makes the 2015 nuclear deal “looks better and better”.

By Javad Heirannia

EU resistance against U.S. on Iran is limited: Nephew

TEHRAN – Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that Trump believes that the Blocking Statute law “will be ineffective unless the EU is really prepared to retaliate against the United States for its sanctions policies and to make it costly on the United States to take these steps.”

Iranian VP says talks with U.S. ‘not acceptable’ 

TEHRAN – The Iranian first vice president on Tuesday said that negotiations with the U.S. “is not acceptable” with regard to the Trump administration’s hostile policies against the Islamic Republic. 

U.S. has 'burned bridges' for talks: Iran's Rouhani

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday dismissed Washington’s offer of talks, which followed its unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, saying the U.S. "burned bridges" for negotiations with Tehran.

'Trump pressing permanent UN Security Council members to violate nuclear deal'

Trump has gone beyond threatening Iran: Princeton researcher

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a Princeton University researcher and former Iranian ambassador, says U.S. President Donald Trump “has gone beyond threatening Iran”.

By Eric Zuesse

Why Trump cancelled Iran Deal

The following is entirely from open online sources that I have been finding to be trustworthy on these matters in the past. These sources will be linked-to here; none of this information is secret, even though some details in my resulting analysis of it will be entirely new.

By Dr. James M. Dorsey

Yemen war challenges Saudi moral authority

Saudi conduct of its ill-fated war in Yemen coupled with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s alignment with the Trump administration and Israel, and his often coercive approach to diplomatic relations, has opened the door to challenges of the kingdom’s moral leadership of the Sunni Muslim world, a legitimizing pillar of the ruling Al Saud family’s grip on power.

By Hanif Ghaffari

U.S. Won't Benefit From Imposing Sanctions on Iran

TEHRAN - The United States' unilateral and secondary sanctions against Iran have been widely reflected in international media. Meanwhile, many Western analysts believe that the the international system isn't going to comply with Washington's sanctions against Tehran, and this will reduce the impact of these sanctions on our country.

It is better to remain in nuclear deal: Iran’s Kamalvandi

TEHRAN - Behrooz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), has said that it is better for Iran to remain in the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Trump’s JCPOA exit ‘sheer madness’: Pakistani MP

TEHRAN – Shireen Mazari, the chief whip of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party, has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, describing the move as “sheer madness”.

By Recep Tayyip Erdogan

How Turkey sees the crisis with the U.S.

Unilateral actions against Turkey by the United States will undermine American interests and force Turkey to look for other friends and allies.

No longer intl. consensus exists against Iran, says MP

TEHRAN - Ali Najafi Khoshroudi, the spokesman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has shrugged off the renewed U.S. sanctions against Iran, contrary to the past there is no consensus against Iran.

Iraq’s Hakim snubs U.S. Iran sanctions, expresses support for Tehran

TEHRAN - Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the Iraqi National Wisdom Movement, has announced support for Iran in the face of U.S. sanctions.

Zarif: Trump’s jubilation over Turkish economic hardship ‘shameful’

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday described U.S. President Donald Trump’s jubilation over economic hardship in Turkey as “shameful”.

Iran says against arms race in space

TEHRAN - Kazem Gharib Abadi, Iran’s representative to the Vienna-based international organizations, announced on Saturday that Tehran is against any kind of arms race in the space.

By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com

EU dying silently as it plays in Trump’s court

The paradoxical approaches taken by the European authorities is definitely one of its kind! Over the past months, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has repeatedly emphasized that the EU can no longer rely on the United States to secure its interests.

China defends Iran business ties after Trump threat

China’s business ties with Iran are open, transparent and lawful, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said companies doing business with Iran would be barred from the United States.

We will fight for JCPOA, German FM says

TEHRAN – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said that his country along with other European powers will fight for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, to keep it alive, even without the U.S.

Trump indifferent to Iranians, international commitments: Zarif

TEHRAN – By pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, U.S. President Donald Trump showed that he is “indifferent” both toward the Iranian people and his country’s international commitments, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday.

North Korean FM briefs Rouhani of Kim-Trump meeting

U.S. is ‘unreliable’, Rouhani says in meeting with North Korean FM

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on Wednesday that the U.S. is an “unreliable” country and cannot be trusted.

‘International relations is not a beauty pageant’, Iranian FM tells Trump

Zarif says world is ‘sick and tired of U.S. unilateralism’

TEHRAN – In a tweet on Tuesday addressed to Donald Trump, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the world is “sick and tired of U.S. unilateralism”.

By Payman Yazdani

U.S. is after regime change in Iran for its strategic goals in Central Asia: Kovacevic

TEHRAN - Prof. Kovacevic is of the view that the U.S. is after a U.S.-friendly regime in Iran for its long term strategic goals in Central Asia to stop Chinese One road, one belt initiative.

‘Iran’s diplomatic, military fronts never more united’

TEHRAN – The Foreign Ministry spokesman says Iran’s diplomatic and military fronts are more united than they have ever been.

By staff and agency

RAND: U.S. is isolated on Iran

Dalia Dassa Kaye, director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation, says the re-imposition of sanctions against Iran has made the U.S. “isolated”.

Iraq says won’t follow U.S. in sanctioning Iran

TEHRAN – Iraqi President Fuad Masum has said that his country will not accompany the U.S. in sanctions against Iran.