Posted on 06/19/2023 7:30:00 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
In response to former President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from his predecessor Barack Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear deal, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that, if elected, he would reenter the deal and “work with our allies to make it longer and stronger.”
This, Biden claimed, would curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions and moderate its malign behavior. He was and is wrong.
The mere fact that Biden claimed to be seeking a “longer and stronger” deal puts the lie to Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry’s repeated claims that the 2015 deal blocked all paths to an Iranian nuclear weapon. In fact, the deal gave Iran a legal path to a nuclear weapon, a ballistic missile system with which to deliver it and billions of dollars in sanctions relief to fund its global terrorist network.
Biden’s strategy appears to entail reentering the deal and then persuading Iran to make more concessions. This is like selling your house for $500,000 and then, after the closing, asking the buyer to pay you another $500,000.
Success is even more remote because Biden has not learned from the failed Obama-Kerry appeasement strategy.
Over bipartisan objections from Congress, Biden has failed to enforce certain sanctions on Iran and received no concessions in return. He is even unwilling to protect and defend American forces deployed in Iraq and Syria when they are attacked either directly or indirectly by Iran. There have been more than 80 such attacks on U.S. service members with no meaningful retaliation. - more -
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How much do you think that Kerry, Obama, and Biden made off of their Iran deals?
Iran has the ability to build nuclear weapons, but probably only a few each year.
As U-235 concentration is to be increased from reactor grade to bomb grade, fewer centrifuges are needed, so high percentage centrifuges are easier to hide.
As long as the Big Mullah gets his 10%.
In the Muslim world, Palestinians don’t get much true love from their fellow Muslims because their leaders often are thugs.
“Right now, Iran has nearly 20,000 centrifuges between their Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities. But under this deal, Iran must reduce its centrifuges to 6,104 for the next ten years. No enrichment will be allowed at the Fordow facility at all, and the only centrifuges Iran will be allowed to use are their oldest and least efficient models.”
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/foreign-policy/iran-deal
“The third way Iran could build a nuclear weapon is by using weapons-grade plutonium. The only site where Iran could accomplish this is the Arak reactor, a heavy-water nuclear reactor. Right now, this reactor could be used in a weapons program, but under this deal, the Arak reactor will be redesigned so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium. And all the spent fuel rods (which could also be source material for weapons-grade plutonium) will be sent out of the country as long as this reactor exists. What’s more, Iran will not be able to build a single heavy-water reactor for at least 15 years.”
When Iran gets the bomb, I hope the District of Caligula (Great Satan) is the first test site! /spit
It is my understanding that large scale nuclear weapons production must be plutonium-based.
In 2016 the Obama document I linked to above estimated 2-3 months of uranium enrichment per bomb (using 2016 era centrifuges) - 4 to 6 uranium-based bombs per year.
Metro DC and Metro NYC I believe are still protected by anti-ballistic missile defense systems.
In my opinion, the Democrat love affair with the Ayatollahs is because they want Iran to Nuke Israel.
Apart from the obvious wrongness of this effort, it’s established fact that Biden has never right about a single foreign policy decision.
Indeed
I’m not surprised
A “DEAL?”
Between whom? Did congress approve this deal? This is it now? One degenerate chomo is now in charge of treaties? All that’s left is which city Iran nukes first. Tel Aviv? Baghdad? Riyad?
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