The Iran deal

[Dill]

(05-08-2018, 07:58 PM)Millhouse Wrote: To play devil's advocate, the deal was only going to last until 2031, which is only 13 more years. In the meantime they would have avoided sanctions which would give them a more sizable income to develop ballistic technology than they currently have. They also would have more money to support Assad in Syria, among other anti-American/Israel/Saudi factions in the region.

As I said though, we shouldn't have pulled out of it yet. Just trying to find a silver lining in it though, because ultimately that deal was nothing more than a temporary bandaid on keeping them from having nukes over a 15 year period, and not a long term solution that a treaty could have provided instead.

The alternative was not "a long term treaty." It was letting them have a bomb by 2015.  Not clear why that is "better" than 2031.

No particular reason to think that an improving economy benefits hardliners in Iran, as it was definitely benefiting liberals and moderates who backed the Iran Deal. Now the "peace mongers" are discredited. Those who said the great satan cannot be trusted were right. They lead the country from now on.

Now they have a 158 billion, a broken sanctions regime, and a green light to the bomb.