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Interesting comment by the SOTT.net editors on the reasons for the change in stance on the Iran agreement:
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Comment: Why did the US turn so crazy over ‘the Iran deal’, a multinational agreement it too signed off on barely 3 years ago?

Back then, in July 2015, the US and its allies assumed that Syrian president Assad was a dead man walking, and it did indeed, at that point, look that way. With the ‘Shia Crescent’ from Lebanon to Iran broken in two by knocking out Iran’s key ally in Damascus, the Americans, Israelis and Saudis were confident that they could control Iran’s economic development – up to and including dictating the terms of gas/oil and infrastructure deals. They may even have been in the planning stages of next knocking out the Iranian ‘regime’ by spreading proxy war from ‘Islamic State’ across the Iranian border.

But then, three months after the conclusion of the JCPOA, the Russian military legally intervened in Syria, beat ISIS senseless, rescued Assad, strengthened inter-regional cooperation between Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus and Hezbollah, and thereby turned the Iran deal – from the perspective of America and its regional allies – into “the worst deal, EVAR!” because now Iran could strengthen ties with Europe through economic partnership while thumbing its nose at the US because Russia had its back.

This was the worst possible development for the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, which is why they desperately want to ‘fix’ it, while they still can.

But can they? Again we see just how royally Russia screwed them all by intervening in Syria on September 30th, 2015… ”
From here: https://www.sott.net/article/384274-Rouhani-tells-Macron-Iran-nuclear-deal-not-negotiable