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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:59 AM Aug 2018

Trump: Iran Sanctions Are 'for WORLD PEACE, Nothing Less!'

Source: The Daily Beast


No one can accuse Donald Trump of lacking faith in his own abilities. Tweeting early Tuesday morning, the president said he was aiming for world peace, “nothing less,” as he praised his new sanctions against Iran. “The Iran sanctions have officially been cast,” he wrote. “These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level. Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States. I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!” Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani hit out at the White House for its reinstatement of economic sanctions, describing the measures, which came into effect overnight, as “psychological warfare.” The sanctions take aim at various sectors including Iran’s automotive industries, its trade in gold and other precious metals, as well as aluminum, steel, coal, and software used in industrial processes. The sanctions come after the U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal this year.

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Trump: Iran Sanctions Are 'for WORLD PEACE, Nothing Less!' (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
Trump's Iran sanctions are nothing but a LOYALTY TEST Freethinker65 Aug 2018 #1
Trump also told us ... left-of-center2012 Aug 2018 #2
He still wants that Nobel Prize. Nitram Aug 2018 #3
If Trump really wanted World Peace NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #4
You know why he wants a Nobel Prize ragemage Aug 2018 #5
Because Trump is a peace-loving kind of guy dalton99a Aug 2018 #6
Then why does no other country in the world agree? Where's the damn sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 #7
Since the EU passed a law protecting all their companies from US sanctions...the mother of all Fred Sanders Aug 2018 #8

Freethinker65

(10,021 posts)
1. Trump's Iran sanctions are nothing but a LOYALTY TEST
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 08:11 AM
Aug 2018

The sanctions have nothing to do with world peace.

Trump is trying to divide not only our nation, but the world.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
2. Trump also told us ...
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 08:35 AM
Aug 2018

Trump also told us,
talks with North Korea would give us world peace.

How'd that work out?

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
4. If Trump really wanted World Peace
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 09:17 AM
Aug 2018

He should resign and agree to testify against others in his administration about their Russian connections.

ragemage

(104 posts)
5. You know why he wants a Nobel Prize
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 09:27 AM
Aug 2018

President Obama got one...Trump has to be the same or better then Obama at everything. It is his obsession and I believe what will truly unravel him. His unending hatred of President Obama will consume and destroy him.
Trump is rolling back almost all the good that Obama did, rolling back sanctions he put in place, putting sanctions back on ones he removed, environmental laws, tax laws, judicial appointments, the list goes on.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
7. Then why does no other country in the world agree? Where's the damn
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 09:43 AM
Aug 2018

implementation of the Russian sanctions? Your head is up your ass. Iran agreed to a deal for peace with multiple countries, carefully worked out over years of negotiations, while Russia committed an attack on the country. So you punish one and get in bed with the other.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
8. Since the EU passed a law protecting all their companies from US sanctions...the mother of all
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 10:01 AM
Aug 2018

economic wars, with our allies!, is about to commence...thanks, fucking Trump!

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