"For more than two decades, Europe has been at the heart of the ongoing, manufactured crisis over my country's peaceful nuclear programme. In many ways, the European role has reflected the state of broader international power relations. Once a moderating force aspiring to restrain a belligerent America with maximalist aims in our region, Europe is today enabling the excesses of Washington. Last week, Britain, France and Germany or the E3 said they had activated the process to snap back UN sanctions on Iran."
"The mechanism was set up to penalize significant non-performance under the 2015 nuclear deal signed by Iran, the E3, the US, China and Russia. The E3's gambit lacks any legal standing, chiefly because it ignores the sequence of events that led Iran to adopt lawful remedial measures under the nuclear deal. The three countries want the world to forget that it was the US, and not Iran, that unilaterally ended participation in the joint comprehensive plan of action (JCOPA), the formal name of the deal."
"The E3 are additionally omitting how they failed to uphold their part of the bargain, not to mention their outrageous welcoming of the bombing of Iran in June. Britain, France and Germany may appear to act out of spite. But the truth is that they are intently pursuing a reckless course of action based on the logic that it may provide them with a seat at the table on other issues. This is a grave miscalculation that is bound to backfire."
Europe has been central to the manufactured crisis over Iran's peaceful nuclear programme for more than two decades. European policy once sought to moderate a belligerent America with maximalist regional aims, but now enables Washington's excesses. Britain, France and Germany activated the UN snapback process to reimpose sanctions on Iran despite lacking legal standing, since the United States unilaterally left the JCPOA and Iran took lawful remedial measures. The E3 failed to uphold commitments and even welcomed the June bombing. The E3 pursues a reckless strategy to regain relevance, but Washington sidelines Europe unless it shows unquestioning fealty.
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