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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:30 PM Mar 2015

Rubio willing to defy European allies on possible Iran deal

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says that if elected president, he would “absolutely” defy stalwart European allies if necessary in order to revoke an Iranian nuclear deal he might inherit from President Barack Obama.

Rubio, who is on the cusp of announcing a run for the Republican presidential nomination, says the next commander in chief “should not be bound” by Obama’s potential agreement, even if European negotiating partners stand behind the deal.

“The United States, although it’s less than ideal, could unilaterally re-impose more crushing and additional sanctions,” Rubio said in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday. He said he would also “use the standing of the United States on the global stage to try to encourage other nations to do so.”

The U.S. is negotiating the high-stakes nuclear deal with Iran alongside three European allies: Britain, France and Germany. Russia and China are also part of the U.S.-led negotiating team.

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http://www.salon.com/2015/03/18/rubio_willing_to_defy_european_allies_on_possible_iran_deal/

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underpants

(182,279 posts)
3. What a Rube
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:34 PM
Mar 2015

First, you aren't going to even get the nomination. VP slot? Maybe

Second, the US would have no standing on the world stage if for some otherworldly reason you were elected POTUS or VP.

karynnj

(59,475 posts)
6. This is more stupid than he usually is
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 01:31 PM
Mar 2015

If there is a deal and international and US sanctions are dropped or lessened, what happens next depends mostly on what Iran does.

If Iran is seen to be complying in January 2017, when (heaven forbid) Rubio became President, why on earth would be reinstate US sanctions? What would he claim as the purpose? as to the US using "its standing" (which I thought the Republicans claimed we lost under Obama), why would these countries - who actually have more trade with Iran - put the sanctions in place again.

If Iran is NOT complying and sanctions were seen as being able to hold them back, Obama and the world would already have done so. This ignores that Iran - per Netanyahu even - made progress in the Bush/Obama years UNTIL the interim deal, which actually moved them backwards and froze them there.

William Seger

(10,742 posts)
7. And it doesn't matter what the deal is, either
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 01:44 PM
Mar 2015

The phoney outrage about a deal which they know absolutely nothing about except that it's "Obama's deal" says everything that needs to be said about what Repugs put ahead of the best interests of the country. If any of the current potential Repug candidates is elected, the first order of business will be undoing anything and everything Obama has accomplished, regardless of the consequences.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
9. Typical repub wants unilateral US action rather than multilateral negotiations. Got to show you're
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 02:16 PM
Mar 2015

a tough guy, I guess.

Marcuse

(7,398 posts)
10. Unilateral US sanctions are "less than ideal".
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 05:33 PM
Mar 2015

Rubio thinks US sanctions worked against Cuba, so why not against Iran? So what if they can get what they want from the rest of the world.
American exceptionalism! Freedumb!

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