Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Macron urges Iran to be 'patient', regrets announcements on enrichment" video.

The EU can do nothing about supporting iran, since EU companies do not want to lose access to the US market. The Chinese can trade with Iran with impunity as the US dare not attack Chinese companies trading with the US. The Chinese hold too much of US debt. If forced, the Chinese could crash the US economy.
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Jan Schlossar no you are wrong, Iran wants the EU to defy US trade sanctions, but the politicians cannot force EU companies which are already putting trading with the us to put that at risk. It is true that if a war breaks out between the US and Iran, the US will find it hard to recruit allies, but then Trump wants a small war at the moment as a war president cannot be impeached and there are those in the Trump adminstration with vested interests in arms manufacture who stand to make billions out of such a conflict. Iran is an easy target, as it does not yet have nuclear weapons,it also has regional enemies who would be happy to watch a fight between the US and Iran. This is one of the reasons why every one should be very sceptical about evidence linking Iran to attacks on ships in the gulf. Iris not impossible that Iran is being framed by one of its hostile neighbours. Would the Iranians be so incompetent as to be videoed taking limpet mines off a tanker ship? The only reasonable justification for such an action would be because the mine failed to explode and they were attempting to hide the evidence of the bungled attack less it identified the perpetrators, but this argument could equally apply to anyone wishing to frame Iran for the action. The next obvious question is why would Iran want to hide its involvement in such an attack, after all they are the most likely to be blamed in any case, so they might just as well admit to such an action. It is interesting that neither ship was destroyed and there are no reports of loss of life, was this intentional?
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Jan Schlossar it seem that you just repeat what you have already said without adding anything of interest. The us may have left the deal unilaterally, but that does not change the fact that the EU is powerless. Saying the US will be on its own in the event of a conflict, is just saying the EU is not doing anything and will continue to not do anything, it is certainly not going to rush to Iran's defence against the US military. The most it might do is deny the US military access to European bases in support of the conflict, but given the US has a carrier group in the gulf, I doubt there will be any requirement for EU involvement.
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Jan Schlossar glad to see you admit to being boring, it is interesting that you feel able to speak for the nations of the world. Did you ask them for an opinion before posting such an emphatic declaration of their intentions. I express my opinion and observations, you make pronouncements as statements of fact, but you do not speak for the EU and there are other players involved, such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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