Iran Nuclear Deal: USA remains out under Biden after failed 2022 JCPOA talks; Russia and Iran collaborating on nuclear items

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Everything Bibi said the other day is well known to the U.N. and others. It is the reason why this deal was put in place.

So basically the article is saying is that Bibi is rehashing the exact information that led to the deal in the first place. He is making it seem like the information he is showing is brand new and after the deal, but instead, it was prior and the reason for the deal in first place.

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I'm not saying this. This is what the article from defense.com is saying.

Netanyahu and Iran's Atomic Archive: What's New and What's Not

Did Iranian officials lie about the country’s past efforts to develop nuclear weapons, as Bibi maintains? You bet. Did we need his presentation to reach that conclusion? Absolutely not.

Still the best deal in town

It may seem curious, but Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons, and its past attempt to do so, are precisely why the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia, and China struck a bargain with Iran. What Iran had been up to was only too well understood. So if Iran’s leaders wanted relief from sanctions, they would have to accept unusually strict limits and monitoring on their civilian nuclear program. That’s the essence of the deal that Netanyahu and Trump both loathe so much.

Contrary to claims that the deal required Iran to “come clean” and be truthful about its past weapons research, it required only that Iran implement an agreement with the IAEA, facilitating its investigation into Iran’s past activities—which is what happened. Everyone involved understood that Iran’s leaders were lying to save face. After more than a decade of denials, they would not undergo the humiliation of a public admission to the contrary. It’s absurd to imagine otherwise.

To some, Iran’s regime is so pernicious that keeping the strongest possible sanctions going for as long as possible may seem more important than convincing Tehran not to indulge its nuclear ambitions. But this argument is rarely voiced openly, and is doubtful on the merits. Every other threat that Iran poses—terrorism, subversion, and missile proliferation—would only be abetted by its possession of nuclear weapons.

The unambitious arsenal

Perhaps only by accident, Bibi Netanyahu did place some fascinating new bits of information on the public record. Showing images of documents without visible dates, he described the AMAD Plan’s vision for a nuclear arsenal. It was to have consisted of five nuclear devices suitable for ballistic missile delivery. Each was to have a yield of 10 kilotons, small by nuclear standards.

This is a remarkably miniscule, unambitious arsenal. It would make Kim Jong Un giggle. Only one country is known to have created anything like it: South Africa, which built a handful of very basic nuclear weapons in the 1980s, and then decided to dismantle them. Only later, after the end of Apartheid, did the new government reveal the story. According to a South African nuclear official, Waldo Stumpf, the idea was to keep the bombs secret; only if the country were threatened with invasion would it hint at its capability, or conduct a nuclear test to reveal it.
 

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:shaq: you're back to make more ban worthy posts? :blessed:

It's hilarious how you guys posts on a forum where you're not welcome, while complaining about not being welcome

:ufdup: be safe tho
Explain how posting primary sources in which media outlets are going to eventually cover as well

Ban-worthy? :gucci:

:picard: I apologize
 

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This is America’s Suez moment. This will further isolate America and will do significant damage to its reputation. Whoever becomes president afte Trump is going to inherit a big mess. I said Trump would accelerate America’s decline. The final nail would be a bloody war with Iran which would be a stalemate with high casualties and more damage to America’s reputation. War with Iran would be America’s Rocroi and Manzikert.
 
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