Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that Trump had not informed him or others in the administration about his decision and had refused to share it with British Prime Minister Theresa May when she asked him about it.

Tillerson said he had been surprised when Trump publicly announced he had reached a decision.

(18.9.2017) “The Americans have a desire to fix the agreement, and I offered a plan on how to do it,” he said, without going into detail.

Netanyahu said he expressed his position as “clearly as possible,” that if the agreement is not changed, “it will lead to the nuclearization of Iran.”

“If the president pulls back on the Iran deal, given Iranian compliance” with its terms, said Wendy R. Sherman, the chief negotiator of the accord, “it will make diplomacy on North Korea almost impossible because U.S. credibility will be shot.”

Presumably, the United States would have to make some concessions to North Korea in return for limits on its nuclear program. But why negotiate with the United States if this president or the next one can just throw out any agreement?

In a press briefing after the meeting, Tillerson said that the U.S. did not dispute that Iran was in „technical compliance“ with the JCPOA.

But he said that the meeting focused only on the technical aspects of the deal, and that the U.S. complaints about Iran remained more political. He said that Mogherini‘s comments referred only to technical compliance with the JCPOA.

Mogherini told reporters Wednesday evening at the conclusion of a meeting of parties to the 2015 deal that the United States agrees that Iran is in compliance with the nuclear agreement, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The deal „is working and is delivering for its purpose,“ Mogherini said, and the deal‘s preservation is important at a critical time in the world.

In answer to a question by CBS News‘ Pamela Falk, Mogherini said, „There was no discussion of changes“ because the agreement is embodied in a Security Council resolution.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he and Iran‘s Foreign Minister „didn‘t throw shoes at one another“ at their first meeting, but he added that it isn‘t clear whether they will be able to agree on the future of the Iranian nuclear deal.

As Kurds in neighboring Iraq prepare to vote on secession from Baghdad, Hadiya Yousef told Reuters that Assad’s aim to take back all of Syria could lead to its partition, though Syria’s Kurds insist that independence is not their aim.

“We will be putting more sanctions on North Korea,” Trump said in response to a question at a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in New York on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.

Trump would make the announcement at lunch with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, officials said.

Staatspräsident Moon Jae-in hat vor der UN-Generalversammlung die Wichtigkeit der Bemühungen um die friedliche Lösung der nordkoreanischen Nuklearfrage unterstrichen.

In seiner Grundsatzrede sagte Moon, sowohl die südkoreanische Regierung als auch die internationale Staatengemeinschaft setzten sich für die friedliche Beilegung des Atomstreits mit Nordkorea ein, obwohl das kommunistische Land seine Provokationen fortsetze.

“They were told clearly and definitively (by us) that the nuclear deal cannot be renegotiated,” he told a press conference in Tehran broadcast live on state television after his return from the U.N. General Assembly.

This publication continues WikiLeaks‘ Spy Files series with releases about surveillance contractors in Russia.

While the surveillance of communication traffic is a global phenomena, the legal and technological framework of its operation is different for each country. Russia‘s laws – especially the new Yarovaya Law – make literally no distinction between Lawful Interception and mass surveillance by state intelligence authorities (SIAs) without court orders. Russian communication providers are required by Russian law to install the so-called SORM ( Система Оперативно-Розыскных Мероприятий) components for surveillance provided by the FSB at their own expense. The SORM infrastructure is developed and deployed in Russia with close cooperation between the FSB, the Interior Ministry of Russia and Russian surveillance contractors.

tate Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert says the costs of going ahead with the vote are high, including for the Kurds. She says the planned referendum has already impeded the campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in its remaining strongholds in Iraq.

Nauert says Iraq’s neighbors and “virtually the entire international community” oppose the referendum. She’s urging Iraq’s Kurds to enter talks with Iraq’s government instead.

Foreign ministers Mevlut Cavusoglu, Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Javad Zarif met in New York to discuss their response to the referendum due Monday.

In a joint statement issued Thursday, the ministers said their governments were „unequivocal“ in their opposition to the referendum proposed by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) and said it would not benefit Kurds or the KRG.

They also agreed „to consider taking counter-measures in coordination“ although the statement did not elaborate on possible measures.

Die Spannungen seien zurzeit hoch, doch genau das sei der Grund, warum Frieden dringender gebraucht werde denn je. Sollten beide Koreas an der Sportveranstaltung teilnehmen, wäre dies eine großartige Gelegenheit, eine Botschaft der Aussöhnung und des Friedens in die Welt auszusenden.

Unterdessen sagte auch die US-Botschafterin bei den Vereinten Nationen, Nikki Haley, in einem Interview, dass Trump keinen Krieg mit Nordkorea wünsche. Die USA arbeiteten daran, die Frage auf dem Verhandlungsweg und mittels Sanktionen zu klären. Die USA wollten entsprechende Bemühungen nicht stoppen.

“A CTBT that is in force would be a milestone on the road to a world free of nuclear weapons. It has the potential to prevent a nuclear arms race and an escalation of regional and bilateral tensions,” he added.

The government decided to support infants and pregnant women in North Korea, citing a serious humanitarian crisis facing them, according to Seoul‘s unification ministry. It marked the resumption of aid after a hiatus of nearly two years.

Vereinigungsminister Cho Myoung-gyon betonte, die Weltgemeinschaft verhänge zwar starke Sanktionen wegen Provokationen des nordkoreanischen Regimes, setze jedoch die humanitäre Hilfe fort.

The Russian energy firm Rosneft and the Kurdistan Regional Government‘s Ministry of Natural Resources inked a deal on Monday to extend a natural gas pipeline from the Region into Turkey.

Officials from Kurdistan Region and Iraq are on opposite sides on the issue of the referendum with both accusing the other of violating the Iraqi constitution.

(Juni 2016) Das Ziel der geplanten Protestaktion war es, den schleichenden Landraub durch Bebauung mit Häusern, die Inbesitznahme von Grundstücken, das Halten von Viehherden durch Barzanis Gefolgsleute im Nahla-Tal und anderen Gebieten zu beenden und rückgängig zu machen. Das Nahla-Tal ist eine Region in den Provinzen Nineveh und Dohuk nörlich der Nineveh-Ebene im Nordirak und wird grösstenteils von Assyriern bewohnt.

Ähnliche Maßnahmen finden nicht nur gegen arabischsprachige, sondern auch gegen jezidische Iraker statt. Anfang März etwa kam es zu Zusammenstößen zwischen kurdischen und jezidischen Milizen, als die Peschmerga sich daran machten, ein von Jeziden kontrolliertes Gebiet zu erobern, um es ihrer Autonomieregion einzuverleiben. Dass die Peschmerga bei ihren Operationen gegen Jeziden auch deutsche Waffen nutzten, die sie ursprünglich für den Krieg gegen den IS erhalten hatten, ist belegt

According to the President, JCPOA is distinct from all the similar topics which are mentioned by the press. „First, it concerns Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty; second, it is an agreement reached by seven countries and third, it is the outcome of so much work and effort accomplished by the support of many countries. This agreement has been adopted in UNSC by the majority vote; more importantly, it is the groundwork upon which positive interactions between Iran and the regional states, European Union and other countries have taken place.“