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In Warsaw, Dream of Arab NATO Against Iran Shows Its Cracks
By Zvi Bar'el
Haaretz: The American, European, Arab and Israeli summit being held on Thursday in Warsaw is intended to build an international coalition to apply pressure on Iran and force countries who refuse to take part in American sanctions U.S President Donald Trump imposed on Iran in November to participate. But for now, this summit is more like a party and many of those invited have arrived wearing a mask to block bad odors.
The star of the summit was supposed to be Iran, but the deep disagreements between some of the European countries and the Trump administration on the question of sanctions has caused some participants, such as Germany and France, to send low level representatives. The British foreign minister announced he would be present for only a short time; Turkey, an important member of NATO and an ally of Iran, will not send a representative and said that the Turkish embassy in Warsaw would follow the events of the conference. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman and Israel will be represented by high level delegations of heads of state, prime ministers and foreign ministers – while Egypt will be represented its deputy foreign minister.
All of these groups have their own interests and their participation does not show that they are willing to establish an active joint framework to act against Iran. For Poland, the host, the importance of the summit is in the message it hopes to give to Moscow, which it sees as a strategic threat – by which the cooperation between Poland and the United States is sustainable. Poland hopes the United States will build a permanent military base in the country, in addition to the ballistic missiles already based there. The sanctions against Iran, which it supports, do not particularly interest the country.
Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States are working to establish a cooperative international mechanism whose goals and authority are hazy. If the intention is to force Iran to hold negotiations on a new nuclear agreement and on the halting of its ballistic missile program, meaning that these countries see Iran a legitimate partner that can be relied on to keep future agreements, otherwise there is no point in obligating it to hold new negotiations. If this is their view of Iran, then we can only wonder why Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal rather than seeking further negotiations with Iran. If the goal is to build a broad coalition in support of the sanctions, which will force Iran to give in to U.S. demands without negotiation, such a conference cannot help as without the cooperation of Russia, China and Iraq, the holes in the sanctions could very well be too large to force Iran’s hand.
Iran, which vehemently opposes changing the nuclear agreement and any intervention in its ballistic missile program, has already made it clear that it intends on conducting no negotiations on these two issues, mostly because any negotiations with the United States is doomed to failure because the United States has proved in the past that it is an unreliable partner for agreements. The policy of most member countries of the European Union, and in particular Germany, Britain and France – the European bridesmaids of the nuclear deal – feel the nuclear deal must be left as is, remove the sanctions on Iran as the nuclear deal states and to conduct negotiations on amending the agreement and the Iranian ballistic missile plan.
These three countries are now trying to bypass the new sanctions regime using INSTEX (The Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges), which will enable trade with Iran through a joint special-purpose vehicle that will not use dollars as its base currency. This invention may not be able to replace the large trade agreements Iran signed with European and other companies since the nuclear deal was signed, and will also not help it to overcome the financial crisis it faces. However it is expected that the European effort will provide Iran with justification to continue and keep to the nuclear deal and not return to developing its nuclear program >>>
In the final communique of the Warsaw Summit there was no mention of the IR Regime which speaks volume about the effectiveness of this gathering. Moreover, BiBi insulted the host nation Poland by blaming them for their role in the Holocaust which resulted in the cancellation of a European summit in Israel.
At this point everyone is waiting for Trump to get out of the White House and then figure out what to do next.
Pathetic, Absolutely Pathetic!
This conference made it so obvious and clear that there is a plan , a formal and credible one to make sure iran understands its place in this region and in the world and no matter how hard regime supporters go to work trying to demonize the intentions of the participants and or deny their credibility the inevidable will happen soon.
The time is up and they all know it.
So said Comical Ali/Baghdad Bob as the US tanks can be seen in the background, “We will defeat the infidels. There is a plan, a formal and credible one … the inevitable will happen soon.”
That is right.
However in this case, the roles have been switched just a tinge and The role of the infidels has been assigined to The IRI pawns which shall be destroyed. In your story, The infidels were the americans.
Remember one thing . The effectiveness of any plan or meeting will not be revealed until it is put into action. To simplify that for you, Just cuz Iran's names ain't mentioned, does not mean it ain't gonna get a butt whooping.
The thing is that everyone in iran knows this and is waiting for it, yet they prefer to spend time discovering why meat prices are so high. That is literally why they do not give a crap about the Organic and solution from within Wet dream.
The sooner the US/Israelis attack the high-valued assets of the IRI regime the better it is for all!