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> would do once it'd get nuclear weapons. If only we had had a deal that the entire intelligence community had agreed was working where Iran had agreed to stop
by cthalupa 7mo ago
> would do once it'd get nuclear weapons.
If only we had had a deal that the entire intelligence community had agreed was working where Iran had agreed to stop developing nuclear weapons.
That would have been a nice thing to have. What a good world that would have been. Too bad... Wait. Wait. You're telling me we had that deal? And that Donald Trump is the one that ended it in his previous term, thus once again being the root cause for this conundrum?
Shit.
- sQL_inject 7mo agoThis is just wrong and frankly naive. While Israel has always been crying wolf over them having nuclear weapons, they had facilities purifying uranium to weapons grade up and running. We can debate whether they were close to a nuke or not, or whether they'd strike as far as the West, but Iran wasn't stopping trying to create a warhead.
- cthalupa 7mo agoThey had stopped when the deal was in place. They resumed after it went away, and had most of a decade to get the previous stuff out of mothballs and continue. No one seriously suggests that Iran had continued working on their nuclear weapons program while the Obama deal was in place. Edit: The IAEA had 24/7 access to the sites and constently verified they were abiding by the deal. Trump himself testified twice they were abiding by the deal. They had dismantled their heavy-water reactor and could not produce plutonium, had gotten rid of 97% of it's enriched uranium, turned off 2/3rds of their centrifuges, and was not producing weapons grade enriched uranium. Under the deal they did not have any uranium enriched beyond 4%. After we withdrew, they had since been able to get up to 60% enriched.