It’s high time for EU and NATO allies to develop a different policy on Iran. It must not only disagree diplomatically with the unethical and international law-violating U.S. primary and secondary sanctions. It must represent an alternative that clearly isolates the U.S.
But do we see any signs that they are able to?
Do these countries actually have more political action permission and capacity – not to speak of intellectual capacity to think independently – than had, say, the Warsaw Pact countries vis-a-vis the Soviet Union at the time?
TFF director Jan Oberg on Iran’s PressTV, November 14, 2018:
Captain isn’t that an iceberg on the horizon? No. That’s a spot of mist, hold your course and turn up the speed. Captain the mist is getting heavier with that iceberg in our way. Quartermaster we have taken this route for many hundred years and never had any trouble. Captain we are now one minute from impact shall we steer clear. No.