Iranian Agreement reached on lifting oil, gas, banking sanctions

[SRP]

The Zionazis have the nuclear weapons but they don't face any sanctions. Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt must also have nuclear weapons.

Yes give it to Palestine as well. Why leave them ?

 

[Oldman1]

This agreement might improve Iran's situation in foreign affairs but I doubt our fucked up economy , unemployment and current corruption in system disappear anymore .

Iranians have to accept the fact that nothing , let me repeat again nothing will be like 5-6 yeas ago . Maybe in our wet dreams we can see that .

What makes you say that? I don't know what the corruption is going on in Iran, but if sanctions are lifted, companies around the world be flocking to Iran. Investments come in, trade goes up without hinderance, etc. All that creates jobs and opportunities.

 

[Serpentine]

 

[raptor22]

What makes you say that? I don't know what the corruption is going on in Iran, but if sanctions are lifted, companies around the world be flocking to Iran. Investments come in, trade goes up without hinderance, etc. All that creates jobs and opportunities.

Surly it could reduce many expenditures imposed by sanctions due to middle men and higher prices but when an economy is ill removal of sanctions just could ease the pain not cure the illness ... we need to work on economy.

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

Yeah ... thanks to pakistani government for cancellation & burning Iranians money ! We made a pipe line for nothing !!! Now we are working with indians ...

Dude. Pakistan is building the pipeline to link both IPP and Qatari terminal. Iran can't sell gas due to sanctions. Good luck with India, they withdrew from the project once before.

India and China were buying Iranian gas and oil despite of sanction but stupid and slavish government of Pakistan was fearful of sanctions !! What a lame excuse !! IPP gas pipeline will have to pass Afghanistan and our stupid ISI has made enough enemies in Afghanistan to make that nearly impossible. The LNG from Qatar will be expensive to due to conversion of LNG to gas. The Iranian pipeline with a loan was the best the option for Pakistan. While the common people of Pakistanis face daily gas and electric shortages the government takes orders from Riyadh and Washington. We don't need enemies we have our slavish government that chooses the interests of Saudi Arabia and USA than Pakistan's interests.

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

Iran Talks Shed Light On Nuclear Tensions Between India, Pakistan : NPR

Iran Talks Shed Light On Nuclear Tensions Between India, Pakistan

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

One fear of Iran potentially developing a nuclear weapon is that it would lead to a regional nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Israel already has a nuclear arsenal, although it maintains a policy of neither confirming nor denying its existence. It's often said that Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey might pursue nuclear weapons if their regional rivals in Iran had them. We thought we'd check in on a neighboring region where there has been a nuclear arms race, India and Pakistan. Neither country is signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Both have nuclear weapons. Frank O'Donnell of King's College London has studied nuclear weapons in South Asia and joins us now. Welcome to the program.

FRANK O'DONNELL: Thank you. Glad to be here.

SIEGEL: And does the experience of India and Pakistan present any lessons for the Middle East and nuclear weapons?

O'DONNELL: I think it does. A lot of the analysis I read about the Iran talks will say that this could pave the way toward a realignment of the United States and the Middle East. This could bring Iran in from the cold. However, the Iran deal, if it goes forward, is just a technical agreement, and in India and Pakistan, there are similar technical agreements which are quite limited. One - both states will exchange a list on New Year's Day each year of the nuclear installations which is part of an agreement not to target each other's nuclear facilities. One is that they notify each other of any missile tests, and one is that the leadership and also the militaries have a hotline to each other.

The story with India and Pakistan is they still have growing nuclear arsenals. These limited technical agreements have not produced the kind of foundation for that broader relationship that some of the analysis talking about Iran seems to expect.

SIEGEL: What do you make of the argument that countries that acquire nuclear arsenals, even if they sound remarkably belligerent before that time, tend to behave fairly responsibly once they do have nuclear arsenals?

O'DONNELL: Well, I mean, to that I can only say look at the example of North Korea. You know, it's one of the most irresponsible states in the world. It's always making nuclear threats. If a state has nuclear weapons, that doesn't automatically guarantee a certain format of behavior.

SIEGEL: And the India-Pakistan conflict - I mean, do you think of it as one that actually has the potential of turning into a nuclear exchange anytime in the even distant future?

O'DONNELL: I don't see that getting to the level of a nuclear exchange. However, what concerns me is that there is not a sustainable, ongoing dialogue to reduce tensions between India and Pakistan. What has happened in recent years is that both sides adopt a tough stance and start escalating, and they both wait for the United States to come in and provide both of them the face-saving exercise that the United States will intervene and bring them both down. There are not mechanisms to de-escalate once a crisis emerges.

SIEGEL: Yeah.

O'DONNELL: That is what I find most concerning about the situation there.

SIEGEL: That addressing the question of nuclear weapons can be a remarkably compartmentalized and technical development and really have no implications for a more peaceful relations between countries.

O'DONNELL: I think that India and Pakistan developed nuclear weapons out of both of their own sense of security threat. And for there to be some measures of reducing nuclear tensions, this has to be part of a broader political dialogue involving what both of their own threat perceptions are, and also, I argue, including China as well because China is very much part of the South Asian strategic environment. It's very much a player in the region.

SIEGEL: Do you see any parallels between Iran today and Pakistan and India at the point where they were intent on developing nuclear weapons?

O'DONNELL: The main parallel I see with Iran - up until really the Obama administration came in, the activities it was conducting up to that point seemed to me very reminiscent of what India was doing - the position it had up until it conducted testing in 1998. For a long period - say, from about the mid '80s and up until 1998, what India did was it had the capability. It had all the material. It had the knowledge. It had, you know, the missiles all sitting disassembled in its basement. By doing that, it meant that it would not be sanctioned as it was after 1998 for conducting the nuclear tests. However, it could in some ways behave like a nuclear-weapon state. It could throw its weight around a bit more. And I wonder if Iranians who are, you know, running the program did look at India's experience as a guide.

SIEGEL: Frank O'Donnell, thanks for talking with us.

O'DONNELL: Thank you.

SIEGEL: Frank O'Donnell is a doctoral candidate in defense studies at King's College London and a research associate with the Center for Science and Security Studies.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

India will be a big beneficiary of the lifting of sanctions

India and Iran can do a lot of mutually beneficial work

 

[TurAr]

So Obama is the passive one in that relationship, eh?

 

[Hack-Hook]

Pakistan has not threatened to wipe Israel from the map!

Did iran made such threat ? If yes when that we are not aware of it .

 

[xenon54 out]

Lol what is Netanyahu doing there?

 

[shhh]

Well That is not exactly true. We knew what may come. We even had prepared for an invasion. All the break through in Iran's AA defense, anti naval missiles, and ballistic missiled where due to the same reason as they had been given priority

I am not trying to be offensive, but that is unlikely, If anyone believes that USA lifted the ban just because of Iran's superior military or out of good will, or that the Iranian diplomats solved the matter using just their sheer genius then they are unfortunately mistaken, USA is a 21st century pharaoh, either Iran had to make some compromises OR some of Iran's interests aligns with US interests.

Or may be you just offered them jumbo cheese burgers, they fall for that easily

Just could not resist ,the economy talk

If you remember the Iran-Pakistan pipeline ,Pakistan wanted Iran or someone else to pay for the pipeline on the Pakistani side.Iran dint ask anyone.

I have not claimed that Pakistan is richer or economically better than Oil-rich Iran. Just that their economy had been effected badly. Please do not make it Iran vs Pakistan or Pakistan vs India thread.

 

[Arminkh]

I am not trying to be offensive, but that is unlikely, If anyone believes that USA lifted the ban just because of Iran's superior military or out of good will, or that the Iranian diplomats solved the matter using just their sheer genius then they are unfortunately mistaken, USA is a 21st century pharaoh, either Iran had to make some compromises OR some of Iran's interests aligns with US interests.

Or may be you just offered them jumbo cheese burgers, they fall for that easily

I think they met half way. This lengthy stand off was required for both sides to come to the conclusion to do so. There were other countries that went through this route but then gave up their ambition like Libya. We saw what happened to them after that.
If Iran is keeping portion of its nuclear capacity and is getting the sanctions lifted, then I would say it is only because both sides agree that continuing this stand off is not worth it and part of it is because Iran is no longer an easy target.

 

[Serpentine]

Lol what is Netanyahu doing there?

Trying his best to sabotage talks.

 

[Arminkh]

Trying his best to sabotage talks.

He has been in constant contact with all of the European foreign ministers throughout the day.

 

[Ragnar]

Good luck to Iran. Hope the sanctions are lifted soon and normal economic ties resumed.