Bolton: U.S. Will Reimpose Pre-Nuke Deal Sanctions on Iran

National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Sunday that the United States will reimpose the same level of sanctions on Iran that were in place before the Obama administration entered into the Iran nuclear deal.

CNN host Jake Tapper asked Bolton about President Donald Trump's decision for the United States to leave the deal and what role sanctions will now play.

"The consequence of the United States getting out of it is to reimpose all American sanctions as they were before the deal came into effect and I think what we've seen is that Iran's economic condition is really quite shaky so the effect here could be dramatic," Bolton said.

Bolton added that Iran will not be able to wreak the same kind of chaos it had before in the Middle East and that it will have greater difficulty now to sell oil.

Tapper challenged Bolton on the United States's sanctions not having the same effect due to being the only country to leave the agreement.

"But still, the United States imposing economic sanctions is a far cry from the United States and China and Russia and Europe imposing economic sanctions," Tapper said. "The U.S. essentially, at least as of now, going it alone. How will that force Iran back to the table?"

"But we're not going it alone," Bolton said. "We have the support of Israel, we have the support of the Arab oil-producing monarchies and many others and the consequences of American sanctions go well beyond goods shipped by American countries because of our technology licenses to many other countries and businesses around the world."

Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), often referred to as the Iran nuclear deal. Iranian leaders threatened harsh reprisals against the United States following Trump's decision to abandon the nuclear deal and reimpose a series of harsh sanctions on Tehran.

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The Coalition for Cultural Freedom

Column: Kanye West, Jordan Peterson, and the revolt against political correctness

On May 15, 1939, philosopher John Dewey issued a statement to the press announcing the formation of the Committee for Cultural Freedom. Attached were the committee’s declaration of principles and the names of 96 signatories. The following day, at a meeting inside Columbia University’s Low Library, the committee adopted its official manifesto. “Never before in modern times,” the document began, “has the integrity of the writer, the artists, the scientist, and the scholar been threatened so seriously.”

The committee's members included anthropologists, philosophers, journalists, dramatists, attorneys, educators, and historians. Politically, they ran the gamut from democratic socialists to New Deal liberals to nineteenth-century liberals who embraced the market without serious qualification. What unified them was their commitment "to propagate courageously the ideal of untrammeled intellectual activity." The "fundamental criteria for evaluating all social philosophies today," their manifesto read, are "whether it permits the thinker and the artist to function independently of political, religious, or racial dogmas." The basis for this alliance between such disparate persons, they continued, was "the least common denominator of a civilized culture—the defense of creative and intellectual freedom."

What has come into being is not a committee or congress but a Coalition for Cultural Freedom. This wide-ranging assembly of critics opposed to the consensus that dominates the commanding heights of culture, entertainment, and media is neither centrally directed nor unified, not precisely delineated or philosophically consistent. But they do all believe in what Gaetano Mosca called "juridical defense," pluralism in opinion and institutions to guard against conformity and repression. And the fact that Kanye's heresy and Weiss's reporting were greeted with contumely, derision, outrage, and agony is evidence for the strength of such conformity, the desire for such repression.

Political correctness reigns in San Francisco, Hollywood, and Berkeley, it is making inroads into New York and the permanent bureaucratic government in Washington, D.C., but its position is insecure, unstable. The ferocity with which challenges to the ideology are met signifies not power but weakness. All it takes to end the hegemony of political correctness is to combat or ignore its will to intimidation. And that is happening. The simple truth is that people do not like being reduced to their skin color, and they hate being called racists. So they tend to abandon the figures and organizations that see them as nothing but biased, sexist, bigoted dullards who belong in a basket of deplorables. They may not voice their opinion to a pollster for fear of social ostracism. But they reveal their preferences through action.

Too long to post image included,If you are as sick of the PC culture as I am then this is a good read, points too many current events in our culture.

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