Iran Press/ Europe: A report of Washington Post on the US President Donald Trump's threatening the E3 countries reaffirmed that the UK, France, and Germany abide by the US' anti-JCPOA policies.
They launched the nuclear dispute mechanism, while, after the US scrapped the JCPOA, they failed to fulfill their commitments to the deal, making it empty of content.
In such a condition, the E3 measure means bowing to the US president's policies, who tries to leave nothing of the internationally signed JCPOA and substitute it with whatever deal he wants.
Washington Post's report on Wednesday depicts the peak of the Europeans dependency on the US and is indicative of their fear of the Donald Trump's threats.
"If they refused to call out Tehran and initiate an arcane dispute mechanism in the deal, the United States would impose a 25 percent tariff on European automobiles, the Trump officials warned, according to European officials familiar with the conversations."
Therefore, the three European countries namely UK, Germany, and France launched the dispute mechanism on Tuesday, claiming that Iran has violated the JCPOA.
The Europeans proposed such a claim in a time that there is a great deal of evidence that shows they have failed to fulfill their commitments to the deal and practically follow the US anti-Iran sanctions.
Of course, the E3's claim to commit the JCPOA and launching the dispute mechanism is a paradox to which the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responds in a tweet on Wednesday: "E3 think they’re living in the 19th Century, when they dictated to countries, lied, & got away with it."
European companies' leaving Iran, zeroing oil imports from Iran, boycotting Iranian banks, and even the inability to sell goods exempt from US sanctions - medicines and food - are the documented evidence that shows Europeans are not committed to securing Iran's interests in JCPOA.
Furthermore, the E3's trumpeting Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) mechanism without even one transaction on the one hand and ignoring Iran's scale-back steps toward its commitments to the JCPOA indicates that the European parties of a deal have failed to play an independent role in the US-less international nuclear deal.
With the fifth scale-back step taken by Iran toward the JCPOA within the framework of the very deal, the Europeans issued a trilateral statement against Iran, which undermines their position as a single independent Europe across the world.
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