Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Angela Merkel tells China that Europe supports nuclear deal with Iran" video.

Iran's behaviour with regard holding a UK national as a spy, should call the deal into question, as it indicates that Iran cannot be trusted. No doubt money is considered more important. EU support will evaporate if the us manages to apply fnancial pressure to EU companies.
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leeroy leeroy manufa tired charges of spreading propaganda are unlikely to inspire trust in Iran. If anything these charges are damaging Iran's image. At some point the US and Israel will use her case to justify sanctions, showing that Iran is a police state.
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leeroy leeroy i did not say they were right or blameless. What I said is that Iran is providing them with easy political ammunition without any real gain. This is just playing the game very poorly. Iran is playing to the stereotype that the west has created. Is the imprisonment of one individual worth the damage that results. I would have thought Iran would understand the creation of marta, and how the individual maybe used. If this is about the return of iranian money paid to the UK for armaments. The Iranian government clearly have misjudged the attitude of the UK government to such blackmail. It will not bother them in the slightest, in fact it has handed the UK government and the US and Israeli goverments a propaganda tool, which will be used by the EU as a face saving measure when they are forced to follow the US sanction lead. The EU simply does not have the money to protect its companies from US sanctions. Short of a change in the US administration, it is likely the EU will be forced to fall in line with the US within a year. The EU will cite political prisoners held in Iran as a reason for the change of policy. Before that we can expect the importance of these prisoners to be increased, maybe at the UN, certainly n the media. By that time Iran will have lost the initiative and pardoning the prisoners at that time will appear as an admission of guilt. It will be interesting to see if my analysis proves right. Of course Iran could take the moral high ground, and pardon the political prisoners in advance, leaving the EU and others to search for another excuse. This will be tricky, as the plight of political prisoners always plays best with the western public. Much more believable than the secret manufacturer of wmd.
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Alexander Albert don't be silly, of cause the UK has a spy network. It is not clear how big or successful it is, but they are some hints that it works very well. My point is that Iran is playing a very poor game of international politics by prosecuting someone who may or may not be a low level spy. The western governments do not care, but the western media at portraying the woman as a hostage of a tyrannical police state, confirming the western stereotype of iran, and establishing the conditions necessary for any action the western Hawk governments wish to take. An Iranian friend of mine, told me yesterday that the US is planing a blockade of Iranian ports as part of their increased sanctions. The propaganda victory that the Iran government has handed to the west means that western opposite to the plan will be muted or at least less vocal. Despite such a blockade being extremely dangerous. If Iran responds by sinking one or more of the US capital ships in the blockade fleet, Trump will respond with all out force. If a US carrier is sunk, with considerable loss of life, the US might respond with tactical nuclear weapons. The threshold for such action has reduced of late, due to the stupid gung ho hawks now in control of the US military. The above scenario might be avoided if other western countries protest against such a blockade, but such protests will be silenced by the US playing the hostage card and painting Iran as part of the evil empire.
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