Sarah Sanders DESTROYS Hillary, Obama, and Kerry!

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(05-14-2018, 07:45 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: fredtoast Wrote: So we should not have even tried to slow down their development of nuclear weapons?

How could that have been better?

By not unfreezing their assets and lifting sanctions thus giving them billions of dollars to fund terrorism and build up their military.  Not exactly a hard question to answer.

In 2013 the CIA assessed Iran's breakout time was six to eight weeks. That was while sanctions were in place and their assets still frozen.

And sanctions were breaking. France, Germany, China and Russia were losing billions holding to them, not to mention jobs. Russian and China threatened non cooperation in any further sanctions if the US did not get the deal done by 2015

After taking their enriched plutonium and destroying two thirds of their centrifuges, Iran's break out time went to one year plus in 2015, where it has remained since. Release of assets followed that. Further, the moderates who went out on limb to push for the deal were rewarded with public trust, enhancing their power and isolating the hardliners, not to mention gaining credibility before Khameini.  

Had Obama not gotten the deal, Iran would likely have reduced break out time to nil, or had the bomb, by 2016 with no meaningful sanctions regime on it and hardliners in full control of the nuclear program.