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mardi 21 juillet 2015

The most important things in the world right now, July 21 - Business Insider






Hello! Here's what you need to know for Tuesday.







1. Officials believe a suicide

bombing connected to Islamic State militants may be responsible for an
explosion on Monday that killed at least 27 people in the mostly Kurdish town of Suruc in Turkey, near the Syrian border.


2. Greece on Monday confirmed it repaid the roughly €2 billion it owed to the International Monetary Fund, as well as a €3.5 billion payment due to the European Central Bank.


3. Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza looks set to win a third consecutive term as polling stations open on Tuesday amid violent street protests and after a failed coup attempt in May



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lundi 20 juillet 2015

The Iran deal is immediately going to face this huge problem - Business Insider



The Iran deal is immediately going to face this huge problem


As President Barack Obama has often argued,
a nuclear agreement with Iran will not be based on "trust." Now that an
agreement has been finalized, the US and its partners intend to hold
Iran to what they believe to be a vigorous and even invasive
verification regime.


That's the key to an agreement: In the deal, the US and its partners
have dictated the size of Iran's stockpile of fissile material along
with its means of creating more. That won't mean much if they can't
ensure that Iran is following these conditions.


But Iran is a sovereign state, and a
member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. As such, the country — even in
spite of its years of misleading the international community on its
nuclear program — has been given a say over how the agreement unfolds.
Whether the deal is successful or not depends on how Iran wields that
control and how it decides on key issues that the agreement has made
semi-voluntary.



Some of those issues are
fundamental to enforcing the deal. Iran's been given certain leverage
over how the agreement unfolds, and it's a tension that will have to be
overcome if the deal is going to be successful.


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Obama’s Iran Deal Sounds a Lot Like Clinton’s Failed North Korea Deal


Obama’s Iran Deal Sounds a Lot Like Clinton’s Failed North Korea Deal


President Obama’s defense of his nuclear deal with Iran echoes
President Bill Clinton’s defense of his disastrous nuclear deal with
North Korea, the Free Beacon found.


In 1994, the Clinton administration tried to entice North Korea to
forgo its nuclear program by giving it oil, nuclear energy technology,
and sanctions relief. The deal collapsed after a decade when North Korea
pocketed U.S. concessions and raced for the bomb. The hermit kingdom
tested its first nuclear weapon in 2006 and has subsequently developed
enough nuclear material for six bombs.


Today, the Obama administration is trying to entice Iran to forgo its nuclear program by giving it nuclear technology, $100 to $150 billion in previously-frozen assets, and sanctions relief on its weapons trade, ballistic missile program, and top military commanders.
The restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program begin to subside after eight
years, leaving the Islamic republic with near-zero breakout time to
construct a bomb when the deal ends.


Both Clinton and Obama claimed that their deals reduced the risk of
nuclear proliferation, although Clinton’s deal ultimately led to further
proliferation concerns. Since acquiring its nuclear arsenal, North
Korea has exported nuclear secrets to other rogue regimes, including Iran and Syria.


In a very direct way, then, Clinton’s rapprochement with North Korea has contributed to the crisis unfolding in Iran.


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“Greece has a certain sensitivity to foreign ultimatums and occupations, most notably on the part of Germans”


A few words on Greek history are in order. The Greek national memory is replete with foreign occupations, humiliations and diktats. The Ottoman Turks ruled Greece from the fifteenth century until the nineteenth. Greece declared independence in 1821, a cause broadly supported by European public opinion, though it took six years and the intervention of a French, British, and Russian armada in 1827 to finally oust the Turks. The nascent Greek state took advantage of the broad support for its revolt against the Turks and floated an independence loan. The government defaulted in 1826, even before Greece had fully expelled the Turks, shutting Greece out of European capital markets for the next fifty-three years. The European powers selected a king for newly independent Greece, seventeen-year-old Prince Otto of Bavaria, who spoke little Greek. Otto was expelled in 1862 and replaced by a Dane, George I of Schleswig-Holstein, who reigned until 1913, when he was assassinated.
In World War I, Greece fought on the Allied side against Germany, Austria, and Turkey. After the war, the victorious powers awarded Greece several islands that had been under Turkish control, as well as the predominantly Greek city of Smyrna on the Turkish mainland and a surrounding Greek-speaking enclave. But when the Turks invaded in 1922, the Allies did not come to the aid of the Smyrna Greeks. Hundreds of thousands died, and over a million ethnic Greeks from ancestral homelands in the Asia Minor regions of Ionia, Pontus, and Eastern Thrace were deported to European Greece, where they had never lived. The massacre at Smyrna was second only to the genocide of the Armenians in the catalog of World War I-era Turkish atrocities.


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“Greece has a certain sensitivity to foreign ultimatums and occupations, most notably on the part of Germans”