@thanatokephaloides

as for this:

The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer

Iran didn't reject the deal though. They signed on in hopes that by doing so, it would be a way to stop Israel from telling congress to go to war with them.
If Trump pulls out of the deal and thinks that gives him a green light to bomb Iran, I doubt the other countries on this agreement will just stand by and watch. I really doubt that Putin is going to roll over and watch us destroy another country that he has interests with. He helped stop Obama, Israel Saudi Arabia and Qatar from ousting Assad and I think the other countries on this deal would not join us.,
I keep hoping that Trump's boorish behavior is going to be the catalyst that pushes others from joining our marching destruction. It has to stop sometime.

ISRAEL.

Of course, Israel set our policy in this area (Iran) to begin with, so....

@Big Al

The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down.

The whole World pretty much knows that Trump is the aggressor here and at this point would see right through using this as justification for war with Iran. Iran has been complying with deal which is why the US is the Country getting the "international opprobrium". The MIC/Oil oligarchy is going to have to come up with another sick, devious plan to provoke war and they probably are hard at work on that.

"The 2009 Brookings Institution report "Which Path to Persia?" would explicitly describe this ploy, stating:

...any military operation against Iran will likely be very unpopular around the world and require the proper international context—both to ensure the logistical support the operation would require and to minimize the blowback from it. The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians “brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal."

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-iran-nuclear-deal-leads-to...

@Big Al She pretty said that she would look for any excuse in terms of Iranian violating the agreement as an excuse to attack Iran. You know, she was forced to do it by the Iranians.

"The 2009 Brookings Institution report "Which Path to Persia?" would explicitly describe this ploy, stating:

...any military operation against Iran will likely be very unpopular around the world and require the proper international context—both to ensure the logistical support the operation would require and to minimize the blowback from it. The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians “brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal."

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-iran-nuclear-deal-leads-to...

@Bollox Ref

Plain terror of the U.S. and its 'interests' is a feature of global life.

American life, too!

I live in the USA and I'm terrified of those "interests"!

Plain terror of the U.S. and its 'interests' is a feature of global life.