The silence from our pal Timmy indicates that, as promised, I have atomized his belief in Obama's lie that the only two options were either acquiescence to Iran's demands for nuclear weapons.....
....or war.
The Brookings statements prove that the sanctions were doing exactly what they were intended to do.
Now....why couldn't Liberals like Timmy have realized that Obama was lying, and that there were other alternative options?
Because Liberals are forbidden to think any thoughts that differ from their orthodoxy.
QED....yet one more 100 % OP.
If sanctions were doing the trick why did Iran have all those centrifuges?
"Obama: The choice is the Iran nuclear deal or war
WASHINGTON — President Obama aggressively defended the Iran nuclear agreement against its critics Wednesday, saying it would prevent Tehran from making nuclear weapons and claiming that the alternative is military force.
"Either the issue of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is resolved diplomatically, through a negotiation, or it's resolved through force, through war," Obama said during a news conference at the White House.
"Those are the options."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-iran-nuclear-agreement-white-house/30179497/
"Those are the options!"
And if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor!
"During 2010-2013, sanctions significantly harmed Iran’s economy and contributed to Iran’s
decision to accept the JCPOA. The sanctions and related diplomatic pressure caused or
contributed to the following:
 Iran’s crude oil exports fell from about 2.5 million barrels per day (mbd) in 2011
to about 1.1 mbd by mid-2013, but in 2016 have recovered to nearly presanctions
levels. Sanctions also made inaccessible more than $120 billion in
Iranian reserves held in banks abroad. Iran has access to those funds and can be
paid for new oil sales in hard currency. Iran’s banks are being reintegrated into
the international financial system. In 2016, foreign energy firms began to make
additional investments in Iran’s energy sector.
 Iran’s economy shrank by 9% in the two years that ended in March 2014, before
stabilizing since 2015 as a result of modest sanctions relief under an interim
nuclear agreement. Iran achieved about 4% growth in 2016.
 Nuclear negotiations and sanctions relief helped Iran’s President, Hassan
Rouhani, politically, but the slow recovery in 2016 has emboldened his critics.
Sanctions relief also has given Iran the option of using its additional revenues to
expand its regional influence. "
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS20871.pdf
The Federation of American Scientists
C'mon....don't be afraid to admit the truth: Why did Obama push to get nuclear weapons into the Mullahs' hands???????