Trump vs the EU Commission’s Iran-loving, ex-Communist Foreign Secretary

The EU’s Tehran Time Bomb is ticking - and its relevant for Brexit

Federica Mogherini,
de facto EU Foreign Secretary,
being mobbed by MPs in the
Iranian Parliament for selfies, 2017

Who elected this powerful former Communist who purportedly represents the UK?

12 months ago President Trump took the USA out of the EU-led international deal designed to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons. He did so for good reasons and was promptly condemned by the EU and the liberal media.

“The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”
- President Trump, 08 May 2018

Last week, tensions with Iran escalated, as the Tehran regime announced a 60-day deadline until it re-starts its stockpiling of nuclear materials, capable of making atomic bombs. This has been taking place against a backdrop of Iran’s economy approaching freefall, with soaring inflation and civil unrest.

The EU got it wrong

Despite having condemned President Trump for his withdrawal from the agreement made under Barack Obama, the EU now finds itself having to criticise Iran for its actions under this exact same deal. On Thursday last week, the EU’s Foreign Secretary – former Italian Communist and unelected EU Commission Vice-President Federica Mogherini – issued a joint statement with the 'G3'.

In the statement she said:

“We reject any ultimatums and we will assess Iran’s compliance on the basis of Iran’s performance regarding its nuclear-related commitments under the JCPoA and the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons).”

Unable to admit she had been wrong in doing the original deal with Iran, she went on to say:

“At the same time we recall our own firm commitments under the agreement including as regards sanctions-lifting for the benefit of the Iranian people. In this regard, we regret the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States following their withdrawal from the JCPoA.”

This was all so predictable

Here at Brexit Facts4EU.Org we first reported on the EU’s involvement with Iran before the EU Referendum. Then in April 2016, just two months prior to the big vote, we published an article about an extraordinary 48-hour visit to Tehran by the EU’s Foreign Secretary Mogherini and seven other EU Commissioners.

This group of eight extremely powerful but unelected EU Commissioners visited Tehran for the weekend and agreed to all kinds of cooperation with that regime. At the time we highlighted three areas of concern:-

The EU Investment Bank to start lending to Iran
The EU to conduct joint nuclear research with Iran
The EU to share science and technology knowledge with Iran

Bizarrely this didn’t make the BBC News headlines.

Dear President Trump

Did you know that some EU Commissioners have a ‘special interest’ in Iran?

The EU's unelected de facto Foreign Secretary, Federica Mogherini, was a committed communist for eight years until the Italian Communist Party disbanded and was renamed, whereupon Ms Mogherini joined the new organisation.

Ms Mogherini is no fan of the United Kingdom and indicated as early as 2017 that she was looking forward to ‘getting her hands on the file’ as soon as the UK leaves. It’s the EU Commission’s de facto Foreign Secretary (the position she currently holds) who is responsible for the EU’s relations with the UK once it is no longer a member.

She studied political science in Italy and France and did her university dissertation on Islam.

The other EU Commissioner who might be of particular interest to President Trump is Elżbieta Bieńkowska.

Ms Bieńkowska is Polish and has no business experience, but she is bizarrely the Commissioner for the Single Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.

However, Ms Bieńkowska does have a masters degree in Iranian studies from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Brexit Facts4EU.org Summary

So, the EU’s Vice-President (and de facto Foreign Secretary) did her university dissertation on Islam,
and the Commissioner for the Single Market and Business did her masters in Iranian studies

Who decides EU foreign policy?

Technically the answer to that question is clear. It’s the EU member states’ foreign ministers when they meet under the auspices of the EU Council who decide foreign policy, based on the views of their own governments. The reality is of course a little different, as with most of what the EU does.

Here’s EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on the subject:-

“I do not want to say a great deal about foreign policy. We urgently need a common foreign and security policy.”

“It would be fine by me if the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy [Federica Mogherini] were no longer thwarted by the Foreign Ministers of the Member States and I will ensure this does not happen.”

- President Juncker, Oct 2014 speech to EU Parliament, setting out objectives for 2014-2020

In other words, the EU Commission President proposed that Italian former Communist Federica Mogherini, the EU’s “High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy” (and EU Commission Vice President) would be able to overrule the Defence and Foreign Ministers of the EU member states.

Where is the British Government on all of this?

Theresa May’s Government continues to back the position of the EU, rather than that of the UK’s staunchest and largest ally, the United States.

Observations

In our view the British Government were wrong back in 2015 when the ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’ (JCPOA) with Iran was agreed, and they’re wrong now.

More importantly from a Brexit perspective, why does the UK Government slavishly curry favour with the EU’s unelected foreign policy supremo, when our strategic objectives could be said to lie in another direction?

Deeds not words

Naturally the Iranian question is complex and we have only been able to touch on it in this article. For us the key aspect is not the ins and outs of the Iranian deal, but that this is yet another example of how the UK’s once-proud Foreign Office has been sucked into EU-ism, and can no longer function effectively in the UK’s interests.

Only a couple of decades ago, it would have been the British Foreign Secretary who would have been leading the charge. Now we have a former Communist from Italy, an unelected EU Commissioner, who is making the running.

And we retain our opinion that she is running in the wrong direction.

The sooner we become a free, independent nation again, the sooner we can stop this continental nonsense.

P.S. We could have run an article today on Nigel Farage and the BBC, which would have garnered far more readers from social media. Coincidentally we attacked the BBC very strongly a year ago this week, going beyond what Mr Farage said yesterday on the Marr Show.

We chose instead to bring you information on a topic which relates to the UK’s sovereignty. It may not be sexy, but it’s important that you get to read this somewhere, in a world where the mainstream media just don’t inform the public properly.

Do please help to keep us going if you can. It seems all donations are going to political parties right now…

[ Sources: EU Commission | EEAS | The White House | Tehran Times ]

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 13 May 2019

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Reader Comments 8

1. Not EU fan , Monday, May 13, 2019, 06:53:

EU = cloud cuckoo land.

2. George, Norwich , Monday, May 13, 2019, 07:22:

The USA has been the UK's natural ally in the last hundred years. The EU is an unnatural one (and in my opinion untrustworthy).
Having all the un-elected commissioners' power from the EU is also unnatural for a democratic country like the UK. The hostile and childish behaviour we see from many of our politicians (including the PM!) towards the President of the United States of America - regardless of who it is - is beyond belief. I'm convinced that this unprofessional and dangerous behaviour is rooted in the EU by pointing all kinds of anybodies and nobodies into positions they don't deserve, are not up to, have never had to work for, and who don't have the worry about losing their position and the attached power.
I still haven't worked out (and maybe never will) that if nothing else, how doesn't this put a shiver down the spine of remainers?

3. Not a Lemming , Monday, May 13, 2019, 09:41:

Remainers are like lemmings to a cliff, either they are brainwashed or just not intelligent enough to read newspapers or listen to biased newscasting and work things out for themselves? Maybe they have no ability to form their own opinion and compare it to others.
It seems to me that the world is being pushed towards conflict yet again and as we go along that route it becomes more and more intolerant.
The biggest bitch I have with remoanians is there total intolerance of any other view except their own. This is one of the main reason that Brexit is being wrecked and why there is so much violence in our societies.

4. Julie Dyson , Monday, May 13, 2019, 11:08:

Excellent article, thank you for further enlightening me about some very uncomfortable truths -- such as the very fact that if we don't Leave, and soon, the foreign policy of our great nation will soon be dictated for us by the likes of extremely unqualified and far left radicals. Perish the thought.
P.S. 'Not a Lemming' -- I couldn't agree more.

5. Steven , Monday, May 13, 2019, 17:15:

The USA as a natural ally of the the United Kingdom? Perhaps in theory but rarely in REALITY ie President Roosevelt only agreed to ‘help’ Britain during WW2 on the condition Churchill started to dismantle the Empire, the CIA helped to fund the EUropean Movement group during the referendum of 1975 so we were locked inside the developing common market, US envy of that brilliant British and French technical marvel of Concorde prevented it from being more successful commercially ie they imposed unnecessary conditions on its flight paths across the US on account of its supposedly excessive noise levels, US administrations have been consistently hostile to the place of NI within the United Kingdom so much so infact that they rarely took vile organisations like NORAID to task for helping to find terrorism in NI and the rest of this land. Recently, the House Speaker has threatened Britain with no trade deal should we ‘undermine’ the Good Friday Agreement upon leaving the EU and lastly one American is presently engaged in helping to destroy the British Royal Family!
America only really has a ‘Special Relationship’ with itself and Israel.
I will say that President Trump does seem to be more favourably disposed to the UK than most US presidents have been. I wonder if this is connected to the fact his mother was Scottish?

6. Adam Hiley , Monday, May 13, 2019, 19:48:

the EU is a joke outside Europe it is the Countries themselves that count not the so-called EU Foreign Minister lets hopefully see the LibLabCon get destroyed at the EU elections the Conservatives will remove May

7. Chris macdonald , Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 14:17:

"Remainers are brainwashed or ignorant."
What a wonderful simple world some people live in.

8. Adam Hiley , Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 17:28:

I agree with Steven about the mythical Special Relationship Our dim LibLabCon Politicians keep droning on about Our real allies are with the Anglosphere Nations such as Australia Canada New Zealand & Non EU European Nations I have never been enthusiastic about the USA to be honest it is a hot headed unstable Country that is spoiling for a fight with the Russians Chinese Iranians any War with these Nations would be disastrous folly even attempted CIA overthrow in Venezuela Our Politicians are too thick to say no to Trump the only one that did was Wilson who thankfully kept us out of Vietnam

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