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Can you elaborate on how this amounts to telling Iran to "shoot itself in the head"? The 12 demands as per your article are: > Declare to the International Ato

Can you elaborate on how this amounts to telling Iran to "shoot itself in the head"? The 12 demands as per your article are: > Declare to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a full account of the prior military dimensions of its nuclear programme and permanently and verifiably abandon such work in perpetuity. > Stop enrichment and never pursue plutonium reprocessing, including closing its heavy water reactor. > Provide the IAEA with unqualified access to all sites throughout the entire country. > End its proliferation of ballistic missiles and halt further launching or development of nuclear-capable missile systems. > Release all US citizens as well as citizens of US partners and allies. > End support to Middle East “terrorist” groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. > Respect the sovereignty of the Iraqi government and permit the disarming, demobilisation and reintegration of Shia militias. > End its military support for the Houthi rebels and work towards a peaceful, political settlement in Yemen. > Withdraw all forces under Iran’s command throughout the entirety of Syria. > End support for the Taliban and other “terrorists” in Afghanistan and the region and cease harbouring senior al-Qaeda leaders. > End the Islamic Revolutionary Guard corps-linked Quds Force’s support for “terrorists” and “militant” partners around the world. > End its threatening behaviour against its neighbours, many of whom are US allies, including its threats to destroy Israel and its firing of missiles at Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and threats to international shipping and destructive cyberattacks. This really amounts to 3 things: 1. Stop pursuing nuclear weapons development, and actually give inspectors the ability to verify that Iran is staying true to it's word. 2. Stop supporting terrorist organizations, and other proxy wars. 3. Stop threatening to destroy Saudi Arabia, Israel, and other countries. Sure, demanding the release of US citizens is superfluous and unnecessary. But how does this amount to telling Iran to "shoot itself in the head"? How would fulfilling these 12 points kill Iran? How does Iran somehow end up dying if it stops fighting proxy wars in Yemen and Iraq?

Daho0n 6y ago
How do you stop sanctions if you already follow the demands put in front of you? The reason the world isn't on the US side against Iran wholly as it were in the beginning of the sanctions is that Iran did live up to the demands.... and then the demands were changed. The US broke the deal, not the Iranians.
- manfredo 6y ago
  You stop the sanctions by meeting the new demands. The US decided the original deal did not offer inspectors enough leeway to ensure Iran was actually halting nuclear weapons development, and so it added more stringent inspection requirements. Adopting or walking away from a deal is a mutual decision. Yes, the US decided to put new terms on the deal. Iran could have accepted adding real enforcement mechanisms to the deal and ended the sanctions, but decided otherwise. This thread is being rate limited. The commenter below is incorrect. The post deal demands included restrictions on nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, too, but they also included changes to increase the access of inspectors. This was a substantial part of why the original deal was rejected, the new administration believed the original restricted inspectors to the extent that Iran could still develop nuclear weapons in secrecy.
  - emilsedgh 6y ago
    United States' post-deal demands were not nuclear. They were regarding Iran's missile program.
  - joshuaissac 6y ago
    The existing deal already has enforcement mechanisms under Article 37. If Iran violates the deal, the UNSC sanctions are reinstated by the P5+1. If the P5+1 violate the deal, Iran scales back its own commitments. All of this is in the existing treaty. And there is no guarantee that meeting the new demands would result in sanctions stopping, rather than in more sanctions and demands.

Daho0n 6y ago

How do you stop sanctions if you already follow the demands put in front of you? The reason the world isn't on the US side against Iran wholly as it were in the beginning of the sanctions is that Iran did live up to the demands.... and then the demands were changed. The US broke the deal, not the Iranians.

manfredo 6y ago
You stop the sanctions by meeting the new demands. The US decided the original deal did not offer inspectors enough leeway to ensure Iran was actually halting nuclear weapons development, and so it added more stringent inspection requirements. Adopting or walking away from a deal is a mutual decision. Yes, the US decided to put new terms on the deal. Iran could have accepted adding real enforcement mechanisms to the deal and ended the sanctions, but decided otherwise. This thread is being rate limited. The commenter below is incorrect. The post deal demands included restrictions on nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, too, but they also included changes to increase the access of inspectors. This was a substantial part of why the original deal was rejected, the new administration believed the original restricted inspectors to the extent that Iran could still develop nuclear weapons in secrecy.
- emilsedgh 6y ago
  United States' post-deal demands were not nuclear. They were regarding Iran's missile program.
- joshuaissac 6y ago
  The existing deal already has enforcement mechanisms under Article 37. If Iran violates the deal, the UNSC sanctions are reinstated by the P5+1. If the P5+1 violate the deal, Iran scales back its own commitments. All of this is in the existing treaty. And there is no guarantee that meeting the new demands would result in sanctions stopping, rather than in more sanctions and demands.