The European Union members of the deal, Britain, Germany and France, by their actions have sided with the US. They are obeying the US imposed sanctions, including the sanctions against purchasing enriched uranium and other metals from Iran.
The EU members were only trading with Iran in non-US sanctioned imports and exports: medicine, medical devices and food, even after the EU established INSTEX (i.e. a barter arrangement to get around US financial sanctions). Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said: "For INSTEX to be useful for Iran, the Europeans need to buy oil or consider credit lines for this mechanism; otherwise INSTEX is not like they or us expect".
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Conclusion
The July 1, 2019 State Department press release above repeats the talking points that the US has been repeating for decades: Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program, it is a threat its neighbors and world peace, Iran is the number one sponsor of terrorism, and it violates the human rights of its own people. When one examines each of these accusations and others they find little there there.
So the US must have other reasons for attacking Iran. The other reasons are that the US wants to bring down the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran is an Islamic socialist country. The US does not care that Iran does not fit into the West's definition of democracy. What it cares about is that Iran uses its natural, financial and human resources for the benefit of its people, instead of for the pockets of transnational corporations.
The US is attacking Iran for the same reason it is attacking Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Venezuela, China and Russia. Their financial systems do not please US corporations. They want to maintain their sovereign rights. They will not mortgage their people's future to the neoliberal Washington Consensus.
The US has geopolitical reasons for attacking Iran too. The US wants to be the sole superpower and rule the world. It does not want any global or regional challengers. It wants full spectrum dominance.
The US has a disease. It is called wasi'chu. It is a human condition based on inhumanity, racism, exploitation, and greed. It is an incurable, contagious and fatal sickness.
Sacred Spirit~Ly-O-Lay-Ale-Loya~Tribute To The Native American People
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