The Iran deal

[Dill]

(05-10-2018, 09:33 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: To be honest, though, there was no deal Obama could have worked out that would have passed Congress. They would have opposed a treaty that dismantled everything nuclear forever in Iran and had Iran acknowledging Israel's place in the world simply because Obama did it.

None of that matters to the fact that the deal was preventing Iran from continuing their nuclear weapons program until 2031, but pulling out of the deal means there is a risk of them restarting the program now. The way the deal was done doesn't change the fact that by all accounts Iran was complying with all of the requirements of the JCPOA and so pulling out in this way is illogical.

The problem right now for the US and international community is not how the deal was done--Obama was perfectly with his rights and acting responsibly when he created that deal--the problem is how the deal was undone, the damage to US credibility, the non-proliferation system, our relations with our allies, our leverage over "bad actors" and adversaries like Russia.

People who object to the deal are really saying that we would have been better off with a nuclear Iran in 2015 than a "bad deal" which prevents them from getting one for decades. And the sanctions regime was imploding.  No other deal was realistically possible than the one Obama's team crafted.