[AnotherUnixGeek]

I don’t know enough about the deal to criticize it, but I do know the Iranians can’t be trusted to hold to any deal. I’m glad the hostilities are over for now and oil prices can drop. I was very much in favor of last year’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, but that was supposed to have destroyed their nuclear capabilities - do we need to bomb Iran every year to ensure they don’t rebuild their nuclear facilities?

[Liz]

All this Iranian “peace and prosperity” comes at a steep price for taxpayers.

Here’s the estimated US cost of war with Iran:

There’s Iran’s $300 Billion “Reconstruction Fee” (read bribe to come to the peace table): Under a “preliminary” US-Iran framework agreement, the US and regional partners (Gulf-area countries) outlined an “economic development plan” for Iran. US officials “clarified” that this is an “incentive fund” made up of private investments and petrostates.....NOT direct US government tax dollars.

Got that, America?

Plus Iran gets another $24 Billion in Frozen Assets: This figure represents “Iran’s own money” locked up in foreign bank accounts (due to international sanctions). Unfreezing these funds would only occur.......(drum roll, please)....... IF agreed upon during the “finalization” of the (cough) “peace agreement.”

Israel is still adding up its bill.....that’ll be a whopper. Tax dollars to fund Israel’s rapid delivery of artillery shells, precision-guided bombs, and other heavy munitions, Israeli military research and development, including using technologies to detect underground tunnels, billions more US tax dollars to fund post-war Israel’s “public health initiatives” and regional “environmental protection,” etc, etc, etc.

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All of the above is besides the costs of billions in weaponry the US used and more billions in gifts of US weaponry to Israel that Israel used for the 10,000 or so bombing sorties conducted to make Iran immensely richer and “peaceful.”

Just figure the Iran war adds another $trillion to the deficit.

[Tell It Right]

do we need to bomb Iran every year to ensure they don’t rebuild their nuclear facilities?

There's an unfortunate reality regarding how long it takes to build an atomic weapons program. For comparison, the Manhattan Project took 3 years from the time it was started (June or Sep 1942, depending on your criteria for when it started) to the time of the first test (July 1945) and first use (Aug 1945).

That was starting from scratch, with 1940s tech and know-how, doing something no one had done before. I imagine it doesn't take nearly that long today.

[Fledermaus]

This isn’t a deal. It’s an understanding and based on Iran’s compliance a deal may be reached in 60 days.