But under JCPOA Iran wasn't going to make a nuclear weapon.Obama enabled Iran to be as much of a threat and sponsor of terrorism by proxies as they are now, or as much as they were at the beginning of this thing, anyway.
He gave them money to do it, even.
I dont know why you think the JCPOA being in place would have stopped Israel from wanting to attack Iran..After trump's ill-fated, reckless decision to withdraw from the JCPOA, eventually causing this war, he said he would negotiate a better deal. He failed. With the US imposing heavy economic sanctions on Iran, the offer of lifting sanctions being what brought it to the negotiating table in the first place, it announced it would withdraw from the agreement on May 8, 2019. Exactly 1 year after Don essentially killed it.
A timeline of tensions over Iran's nuclear program as talks with U.S. approach
Iran and the United States are due to hold new talks in Geneva on Thursday over Tehran's nuclear program.www.pbs.org
In response, Obama made a prediction.
Trump says U.S. pulling out of ‘rotten’ nuclear deal
The move makes good on Trump’s insistence that the deal was too generous, allowing Iran to keep a mostly dormant nuclear program that Trump said could quickly produce a nuclear bomb once the deal’s provisions expire in the middle of the next decade.
But it further strains relations with key European allies, who have spent months urging Trump to sustain the agreement. It also came over the opposition of China and Russia, which were also parties to the 2015 deal.
And it drew an unusual public rebuke from former President Barack Obama himself, who invoked the specter of military conflict.
“Without the [Iran deal], the United States could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East,” Obama said in a lengthy statement.
Many former Obama administration officials suspect that Trump’s decision was, in part personal — that he was motivated by a desire to gut Obama’s foreign policy legacy. Obama aides, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, spent years pushing sanctions and hundreds of hours painstakingly negotiating the deal over some 18 months, and Trump’s decision left some of them dejected.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, meanwhile, said he had ordered his foreign minister to begin negotiating with other countries to salvage the deal, according to The Associated Press. He added that if those talks fail, Iran will once against enrich uranium “more than before … in the next weeks.”
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a vociferous critic of the deal who calls Iran an existential threat to his country — praised Trump’s “bold decision.”
Naturally, trump apologists have made all manner of factually incorrect allegations about the agreement made in 2015 designed to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. They amount to nothing more than a parroting of trump's lies about the adequacy of the JCPOA. Ultimately, Obama's comments following the withdrawal have proven to be prescient. So too Hillary's comments about trump's lack of fitness to lead the nation. If only we had listened.
The JCPOA was Iran's ticket back into their status as the world number one Terrorist Organization. The IAEA had to give Iran NOTICE of upcoming inspections and under no circumstances could they conduct unannounced inspections. Iran got exactly what they wanted including the many billions of RIGHTFULLY FROZEN ASSETS.
An inspection of Iran's power grid, would point us to any clandestine enrichment sites.
A choice by both party's presidents.
Can’t enrich uranium without uranium and we monitored all their mines too.
Well actually under the NPT they weren't suppose to make a nuclear weapon....but of course they have been violating that repeatedly for decades now.
Well, under the NPT the UN was suppose to be, but unfortuately, Iran wasn't letting them:
www.pbs.org
There was no deal.It didn't end for all the other countries, Simp. So you just admitted they violated the deal.
You just keep giving us more examples of why it was stupid to pull out of the JCPOA.Well, under the NPT the UN was suppose to be, but unfortuately, Iran wasn't letting them:
UN nuclear watchdog says it's unable to verify whether Iran has suspended all uranium enrichment
The agency says Iran has four declared enrichment facilities, but it has lost "continuity of knowledge" about stockpiles.
I read that the 82 leader.
The JCPOA has nothing to do with the NPT.
I wouldn't stop Israel from attacking.
No, it would just point us to Iran's power grid. Do you have an inspection report in your back pocket you'd like to share?
www.presidency.ucsb.edu
Well if Khamenei said it…
No country would ever allow unfettered access to all military sites and it’s not reasonable to think they could hide an enrichment program.
