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It’s about Europe choosing sovereignty over their own international politics rather than cow towing to the US. It’s not the EU preferring Iran over the US

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> cow towing

I like that, but the English word is "kowtow", borrowed from Chinese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kowtow

But if the means you choose to demonstrate your sovereignty is to defy a new wave of American sanctions on Iran, then you certainly are choosing Iran over the United States, as a brief glance at any recent news headlines will tell you. The current POTUS, and the large number of congressmen who hate Iran with a rather deranged fervour, will certainly interpret it that way.

You're twisting the narrative here. US are the one who decided to quit the deal they signed in 2015. The one defying everyone else is the US, not the EU.

So either the EU decides to submit to the US or decides to grow a spine. It appears it's the latter. Too bad for the US.

It's not all black and white. I'd say it's not choosing Iran over the US, it's more a matter of distancing away from the US.

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