Recent
developments show that Europe was expecting a possible sabotage of
the deal for the Iran nuclear program by the US.
As RT
reports:
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The
European Union is planning to switch payments to the euro for its
oil purchases from Iran, eliminating US dollar transactions, a
diplomatic source told RIA Novosti.
Brussels
has been at odds with Washington over the US withdrawal from the
Iran nuclear deal, which was reached during the administration of
Barack Obama. President Donald Trump has pledged to re-impose
sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
[...]
Earlier
this week, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that
the foreign ministers of the UK, France, Germany, and Iran had
agreed to work out practical solutions in response to Washington’s
move in the next few weeks. The bloc is reportedly planning to
maintain and deepen economic ties with Iran, including in the area
of oil and gas supplies.
[...]
At
the same time, dozens of contracts signed between European
businesses and the Islamic Republic could be at risk of
cancellation if Brussels obeys Washington’s sanctions. This
would damage Iran’s economy and European firms would lose a huge
market in the Middle East. Switching to alternative settlement
currencies allows both sides to continue trading despite US
sanctions.
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Recall
that already since April, 18, Iran announced that switches
from dollar to euro for official reporting currency.
It was an action that would certainly make the US empire even more
furious and Iranians knew it. So, it is doubtful that they would had
proceed in such an action without pre-arrangement with Europe,
securing that the Europeans will stay in the deal for the nuclear
program.
As Iran
has been a longtime
target for the US empire, it seems that its
leadership has changed strategy towards a much more flexible foreign
policy. Apart from repeated efforts to decouple economy from
petrodollar and further approach with the SinoRussian bloc, Iran
attempted further approach with the Europeans too.
More
than a year ago, Iran had opened the door to the European big oil
corporations after the removal of sanctions.
As
PressTV
reported:
Gholam-Reza
Manouchehri, the deputy for development and engineering affairs of
the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), was quoted by the domestic
media as saying that 12 contracts had already been awarded to
companies since the removal of sanctions against Iran in January.
[...] The first major contract that Iran awarded
after the removal of the sanctions was one for the development of
Phase 11 of the country’s South Pars gas field. The
contract was awarded in November to a consortium led by France’s
Total. Another major contract was one that was shortly afterwards
signed with the global energy giant Shell for studying
three major oil and gas fields in southern Iran.
Notice
that the move has happened right after Donald Trump's election. Trump
has been an open book for the Iranians, signaling from the first
moment that he was determined to provoke war. So, this was an
additional reason for Iran to design a more flexible and
multidimensional strategy, taking advantage of the serious cracks
inside the Western alliance, which naturally widened after Trump in
power.
It is
worth noting also that the transatlantic
war between the US and the European (mostly
German) big capital, culminated and clearly became obvious right
before Trump's election.
The only
weak link inside the Europeans is again the UK. Not only because of
Brexit and the general re-approach with the US. The weak conservative
government will have a very difficult time to keep balance between
different economic interests inside the country. Despite the presence
of big oil in Iran, the arms lobby will sense a great danger of
losing huge profits. That's because Saudi Arabia (and the powerful
Israeli lobby) may push the British government to follow the US
against Iran, otherwise it may stop buying British arms. Theresa May
will find herself in a more difficult position as she has already
been heavily accused that she faithfully obeys to Trump's orders by
the opposition, especially after bombing Syria together with the US
and France, without the approval of the British parliament.
Against
Iran's rather smart strategy, Trump has exhibited a nearly amateurish
behavior. Instead of responding with a similar sophisticated strategy
inside this hard geopolitical battlefield, he essentially did
everything that Iran wanted. He worsened relations with Western
allies, reduced his influence inside the UN security council, and
internationally isolated the US even more. It seems that after his
preposterous decision to transfer the US embassy to Jerusalem, he has
been left only with Netanyahu as a real ally, for now.
Trump
acted with anger. He rushed to kill the deal with Iran and formed a
warmongering
team, screaming for war.
Trump
has put the US in a position with very limited options. The US deep
state has no chance to drag Europeans into another devastating war,
except perhaps through a series of extreme, well-staged false
flag operations. Very difficult mission in an age
where the power of typical pro-war propaganda is losing ground
rapidly, even in the eyes of the American public.
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