Trump's
view of Iran nuke deal: Pull out of it
(No
matter the cost of that decision)
Update from USA
Today from a previous USA Today story same topic:
While saying “many people agree” with his last-minute decision not to attack Iranian sites
on Thursday in retaliation for Iran shooting down the U.S. drone, Trump
said that did not mean he was turning soft adding: “Now
if the leaders of Iran behave badly, then it is going to be a very, very bad
day for them, but hopefully they are smart, and hopefully they are for their
people and not themselves. And hopefully
we can get Iran back onto an economic track that is fantastic. If they did, Iran
would become a wealthy nation, which would be a wonderful thing —
but if they are going to be foolish, that will never happen.”
Trump tweeted: “Iran cannot
have Nuclear Weapons! Under the terrible Obama plan, they would have been on
their way to Nuclear in a short number of years, and existing verification is
not acceptable. We are putting major additional Sanctions on Iran on Monday. I
look forward to the day that.....” — Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump June 22, 2019
Part of the
olive branch toward Iran included praise that the Iranian forces that destroyed
the drone did not attack a nearby U.S. military plane carrying, which he said
was carrying 38 people with Trump saying: “They didn't shoot it down, and I think that was a very wise decision,
and I think that is something we very much appreciate.”
Then in true Trump fashion, he criticized former
President Obama for a multinational agreement with Iran that lifted some
sanctions on Tehran while limiting Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions. Trump underscored that message later in
another tweet saying: “Iran
cannot have Nuclear Weapons!”
Trump told reporters the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) (Treasury.gov
link) which would have delayed
Iran's ability to build a weapon, was flawed, and claimed that it did not allow
widespread international inspection of sites for producing nuclear material
adding: “Most primary sites you couldn't
go to, you couldn't inspect. We haven't seen them in years.”
The JCPOA here
in simple terms.
That is false: In April, a quarterly
report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which handles the inspections, said its
inspectors have had access to all the places in Iran they have needed to visit,
and that was also confirmed by IAEA chief Yukiya Amano.
Plus: The IAEA quarterly report on Iran’s nuclear program, released publicly
just days after Amano’s statement, contains additional details demonstrating that Iran is abiding by the deal’s terms.
It notes that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is
below the 300-kilogram cap set by the JCPOA and that Iran has not enriched
uranium above the limit of 3.67 percent uranium-235, far below the 90 percent
level considered useful for weapons purposes.
The report notes that the agency has had access to “all the sites and locations in Iran which it
needed to visit.”
Amano also continued to defend the importance of the
IAEA’s independence in evaluating information related to its efforts to monitor
peaceful nuclear activities.
Amano emphasized that the IAEA “undertakes analysis and takes action in an impartial, independent, and
objective manner.”
Related
Newsweek report and here from Arms
Control site.
Trump also said that any talks with
Iran would bar outright their ability to make any nuclear weapons, not simply
delay that possibility, adding: “Allowing Iran to ever
be able to make a nuclear weapon is unacceptable.”
The outcome if Trump continues on this path:
And the result the days after:
My 2 cents: How much longer can the world,
indeed the whole country, tolerate this pathological lying man in office? This
is not a rhetorical question.
Add all that above with this
recent AP fact checking story and things continue to look bleaker. I
call this “fact-based truth vs. Trump’s fantasy fiction.”
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