Three US soldiers killed and up to 34 injured in drone attack.

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(01-29-2024, 04:27 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Please provide your source. Please also provide opposing views that Biden did give Iran billions of dollars and Biden did stop imposing sanctions on Iran selling their oil to other countries. Biden opened up their income stream, a stream Trump had closed.
No, I am saying attack their income source and break them financially. It would be Iran making a decision to wage a war on us after we weaken them.

One question at a time. Looks like I'll need several sources.

First, one to establish that the JCPOA extended breakout time from a few months to at least a year. The deal was also an empowering win for Iranian "moderates," not to mention one of US greatest diplomatic achievements in history, getting Russia, China, GB, France and EU all to commit.
From 2016  https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/foreign-policy/iran-deal
Also, Israel's foreign policy intel agency, the Mossad, agreed the deal was a good one. (Netanyahu did not)

Then multiple sources indicating where we are now.


https://armscontrolcenter.org/the-iran-deal-then-and-now/

Iran held to the deal on its own for two years after Trump broke it, then began ignoring it. Two months ago, the timeline had shrunk to "days":
https://time.com/6344430/israel-hamas-war-iran-nuclear-breakout/
Now the Institute for Science and International Security, using IEAE data, assesses that it has been reduced to zero.
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/iranian-breakout-timeline-now-at-zero/

The "far right" Heritage Foundation apparently agrees with this assessment, and recognizes a nuclear Iran fundamental alters the balance of
power in the region, but faults Biden's efforts to resurrect the deal, forgetting to mention why it needed to be "resurrected."  
https://www.heritage.org/middle-east/commentary/irans-breakout-timeline-has-reached-zero

The sanctions you complain Biden lifted were an effort to revive the deal. 
But Trump broke US credibility when he broke the deal Iran was keeping. His Taliban deal was small potatoes compared to this disaster.

So a further problem is now that all those allies on board with the first deal are not inclined to join the erratic US on a second one. And it is difficult getting them to maintain existing sanctions going forward. Good luck getting Russia to re-sign as long as we are helping Ukraine. 

Not to mention that within Iran, the moderates were disgraced for believing the US could be trusted, ceding their limited control of foreign policy to the Iranian far right. 

A final note: one component of reducing Iran's nuclear threat was controlling its threat environment, so that it was not pushed to enrich. Trump effed that up, majorly.