Analysis

Views on the News – 9 May 2018

Headlines:

  • Trump Withdraws US from Iran Nuclear Deal
  • Zionists Continues Strikes in Syria


Trump Withdraws US from Iran Nuclear Deal

President Trump announced on Tuesday May 8th that he is withdrawing the US from the P5+1 nuclear deal. Trump had condemned the deal for years and set a May 12 ultimatum demanding changes to the deal, and threatening to withdraw if he didn’t get them. While the European Union offered him myriad concessions to try to keep him placated, Trump ultimately withdrew. In his speech, Trump complained that the deal only guaranteed the survival of the “Iranian regime.” He said the deal was “a great embarrassment to me as a citizen, and to all American citizens.” He cited the Zionist entities allegations of Iran’s pursuit of nuclear arms. While there had been some warnings that the deal could not survive without the US, Iran and all other signatories to the P5+1 deal have said they will remain in the pact. It is only the US that is in violation, and the rest of the world intends to keep the deal going as best they can without America’s support, which even at the best of times was only half-heated. Less then two years ago, Iranian IRGC officers were sending coordinates to US pilots on where bombs should be dropped in Iraq. Now that the US has achieved what it wanted, it doesn’t want to share the region with Iran.

 

Zionists Continues Strikes in Syria

At least nine pro-government fighters were killed Tuesday in a Zionist missile strike near Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and other Iranian-backed combatants were killed in the strike on the district of Kissweh, south of the capital. The Observatory’s head Rami Abdel Rahman said the strike “targeted weapons stores belonging to the Revolutionary Guard.” Syrian state media said the Zionist entity launched missiles at a target near Damascus on Tuesday, shortly after US President Donald Trump announced he was quitting the Iranian nuclear deal, a move that had prompted the Zionist entity to go on high alert. A commander in the regional alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Reuters that the Zionist air force had struck an army base at Kisweh without causing casualties. The Zionist entity has been worried of Iran’s role in Syria and how it was strengthening itself. It has long moved to pre-emptively strike targets, providing little evidence or verifiable proof.