piezoe, you can't possibly be taking this deal seriously, it's all for show to make the chosen charcaters look good.
maybe so, but the free flow of goods and capital and labor are good for you and good for me, and all Iranians and all Americans.Sounds like politics in general.
Without the deal Iran keeps doing what it was doing. Could/Would it make a bomb? I remember stories in the '90s that they'd have one in five years. More stories in the mid-00's to the same effect. Down the memory hole like lots of propaganda.
Any deal that puts obligations on them gives us lots of future opportunities to jerk their chain (fairly or unfairly) if they make us unhappy in the future.
Let's see who ends up selling them arms when the funds are unfrozen.
It goes way back.There seems to be a history of countries being punished for dispossessing Western business and banking interests. Cuba and Iran by sanctions. Sometimes it happens by not extending credit. Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Haiti after the slave revolts.
Not to mention Sadaam and the libyan guy.There seems to be a history of countries being punished for dispossessing Western business and banking interests. Cuba and Iran by sanctions. Sometimes it happens by not extending credit. Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Haiti after the slave revolts.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq and destroyed its infrastructure and then captured and executed Saddam Hussein, they , in one fell swoop -- actually one swell foop -- virtually tied Saddam in the most Iraqis killed category and simultaneously got rid of the only man, it appears, that could keep Iraq from coming apart at the seams. So not only did they succeed in wrecking Iraq, but they also succeeded in helping Iran. And all this for only a trillion dollars! Quite an accomplishment for an imbecile president, wouldn't you say? Mission Accomplished!, indeed!Not to mention Sadaam and the libyan guy.