US demands Britain back Trump with Iran sanctions

[canetoad]

Source: The Age

Washington: The United States is calling on Britain to side with President Donald Trump rather than the European Union over Iran as tensions escalate over the US's reimposition of stringent sanctions on the theocracy.

Ambassador Woody Johnson has challenged the UK to abandon its European neighbours who back the 2015 international deal to constrain Iran's development of nuclear capabilities in return for trade with Iran. Johnson said on Sunday that Britain should join forces with America to enforce the US president's hard-hitting sanctions. He also delivered an explicit ultimatum to British companies, telling then to stop doing business with Iran or face "serious consequences" for their trade with the US.

The comments are a direct challenge to Prime Minister Theresa May's minority Conservative government, days after a minister point-blank refused to go along with Trump's sanctions on Tehran and keep the nuclear agreement alive.

They also come six days after Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, signed a joint statement with the EU which promised to push ahead with blocking the impact of the sanctions on European businesses. Johnson's comments escalate the tensions over what is the first test of the so-called special relationship between the US and UK since Trump's visit to the UK last month.

Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/us-demands-britain-back-trump-with-iran-sanctions-20180812-p4zwzr.html

[NCjack]

1. John Bolton promised some malcontent Iranians a war. UK invited to help make

him a politician who stayed bought.

[theophilus]

2. May should look at Trump and, raising her finger, say:

Tweet,tweet. Shush, shush. Now, now. Come, come. And then tell him to go and make passionate love to himself. IMO.

[Botany]

3. US demands Britain back Trump with Iran sanctions

We had a great deal along w/Britain, France, China, Russia, and Germany that would
have kept Iran from every building a nuclear weapon but Trump scrapped it and now he
wants Britain to go along w/him?

He is batshit crazy.

[oberliner]

4. Keep an eye on Reza Pahlavi

[pazzyanne]

5. The resident of the White House is definitely a moron!

How does he get off threatening and bullying Great Britain and the EU when it is his stupid actions that are screwing everyone? I have no words for this person that are strong enough to express how I feel about him and his administration.

[calimary]

6. Trashes them and then comes asking for favors. SHEESH.

The real-life Ugly American.

[safeinOhio]

7. Like the early 50s.

They bring back the new Sha.

[bitterross]

8. May won't be Trump's Poodle

I hope I am correct when I say Theresa May will stand her ground. Trump is despised in the UK. Supporting him sure isn't going to win her party any votes.

[mahina]

9. Or what?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. Trump wants to rule the world.

I hope the world tells him to get fucked.

[lark]

14. Think he wants Russia to rule the world.

He's making Russia greater, mot us. He wants Putin in charge of the world and he's the protected pet who is "mostly" in charge of USA, as long as he does everything Putin tells him to.

[Deb]

11. Take-Aways, the only form of Republican diplomacy.

Unimaginative weaklings the whole lot of them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. tRump ratfking divisively for Putin. . . . nt

[Bayard]

13. Demand all you want

Like he has so much clout these days.

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. He can threaten more tarrifs

Which of course would hurt people on both sides of the pond, but more importantly would hurt British corporations and British elites who would put pressure on the PM.