Posted on 06/08/2021 3:42:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I hope I am not reading too much into Secretary Blinken's pessimistic report on the status of the Vienna negotiations on re-joining Obama's Iran nuclear deal. But it does not sound good — for two reasons, one obvious, the other less so.
Obama's 2015 "deal," from which President Trump withdrew in 2018, was rotten to the core, as it gave the ayatollahs the legal right to enrich uranium all they want after 2030. Blinken's admission that "it remains unclear whether Iran is willing and prepared to do what it needs to do to come back into compliance" is not in itself particularly troubling; the world is much better without that deal than it is with it.
What's worrisome is his analysis of the potential consequences: "What we do know, unfortunately, is that meanwhile [Iran's nuclear] program is galloping forward[.] ... It has lifted restraints imposed on it by the agreement including the amount of enriched material that it has; material that's now, in some cases, enriched up to 20% and even a small amount to 60%. It has started to deploy some more advanced centrifuges. ... [T]he longer this goes on, the more their breakout time gets down. The agreement had pushed it to a year or more ... it's now down — by published reports — to a few months at best. And if this continues, it will get down to a matter of weeks, exactly what we sought to avoid and what the agreement stopped."
In other words, as was clear right in 2015, Obama's "deal" was based on a simple premise: Iran was to get an atom bomb anyway — so let's at least buy some time and negotiate a 15-year hiatus, so some other administration deals with that eventuality.
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0bama gave them all of the sanctioned money back and then some. We can’t just take it back. There seem to be two choices and one is to let Iran develop nuclear weapons that they will surely use in “covert” strikes. The other is to get into another war that was set up by the democRATs.
My thinking is that they sense Israel’s weakness and they know that we are weak and the EU is against Israel.
No better time to strike, as quickly as possible.
I agree. The Biden Junta are prepared to help the final solution to the Jew problem as much as possible. They don't want to get caught, but if Israel is nuked off the map, they will party all night and Biden will get an extra pudding for desert.
Not if Blinken’s job is to HELP the mad mullahs.
His eyes are wide open on that.
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