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> "Under the 2015 agreement, Iran curbed its nuclear program in return for relief from U.S., EU and U.N. sanctions. But former U.S. President Donald Trump reneg
by OneLeggedCat 4y ago
> "Under the 2015 agreement, Iran curbed its nuclear program in return for relief from U.S., EU and U.N. sanctions. But former U.S. President Donald Trump reneged on the nuclear deal in 2018 and restored harsh U.S. sanctions, prompting Tehran to start violating the agreement's nuclear limits about a year later"
The unstable math of the way that the U.S. democracy works means that we are going to have increasingly unstable (and therefore untrustworthy) policy responses to many world events in the next decades. Iran, and every other country on earth, now knows not to trust us, and its future actions will have that baked in. We've lost the moral high ground, and that will hurt us more than help us.