Iranian crisis to unite EU
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has tagged the September 22 tragedy as a terrorist attack and charged the US allies with the responsibility of loss of lives.
Without judging rightness of his opinion, this situation smells fishy, at any rate. And it is really working neither for Washington, nor for Brussels.
Objectively speaking and putting aside propaganda cliché, we can say with assurance that those were Americans who unilaterally abandoned Iran Nuclear Deal and opened a Pandora's box. They, thereby, ruined efforts of many countries interested in the peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear programme issue and establishment of bilateral cooperation. Despite Trump's attempts to convert Macron and Merkel to his point of view taking it as a common position, the solidarity effect didn't occurred. The common sense had prevailed. It surely would be embarrassing to discontinue the cooperation with Iranian partners and sacrifice financial and economic opportunities to the allied relations.
The further events followed a standard scenario. The White House punished recalcitrant ones with regular sanctions. So it would have seemed, that is it. The things are settled. The deal is off. Iran's economics has suffered some damage. Although, no one asked Brussels, as usual. Then suddenly, the September 22 burst. That was the grievous deaths of innocents. Who wanted them and why? Those questions are largely rhetoric. Whatever labeling things happened, in general, it clearly was a try to destabilize the country as much as to cause irreparable damage to international economic relations and contacts.
The US military analysts could hardly be so neglectful and irresponsible to bulk consequences of the Iranian "war." Those events more remind the result of an accurate calculation. By hook or by crook, as they say. If Europe had disagreed on the Iranian issue, we still have other tools. Actually, it turns that they've been forcing us to cut the ties and leave Iran by arm-twisting and threats.
It is regrettably impossible to predict further actions of the US president Donald Trump. One thing is clear, however. The Member States of the Iran Treaty should stand together and speak with one voice. Only then there would be real possibility to defend our economic interests de-facto.
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