"Europe said the nuclear agreement was in its security interest. Then Europe must be ready to pay for its security," [Iranian Foreign Minister] Zarif said. "Nothing is for free."
He said Europe should be "ready to pay for its security" by implementing a European Union "blocking agreement" under which it can punish European firms for withdrawing from Iranian business deals to avoid U.S. sanctions.
Suddenly the end of the deal means Iran could pose a threat to Europe? Unless you think Zarif just threatened Europe with cheap and clean nuclear energy, that sounds like Iran is claiming that without the nuclear "agreement" Iran will be a nuclear threat to Europe. But Iran never even admitted that it ever had a nuclear weapons program.
Odd, that is, no?
I never understood how anyone with a functioning brain stem and eyes that work could have looked at the Iran nuclear deal and concluded that it was anything but horrible.
Of course, the vast majority of our media and liberal "think" tanks proved that lack of a brain stem and eyes is no impediment to passing along government propaganda about the deal.
The Iran nuclear deal stripped of useless provision boils down to a simple transaction: "The Iranians will pretend not to have a nuclear weapons program; and we will pretend to believe them."
America stopped pretending. Europe hasn't yet. Even as Iran sort of admits it has only been pretending.
