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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Biden had every opportunity to reverse it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not really, there is no basis to revive the JCPOA. Iran doesn't show any interest in holding up its part of the agreement, even if a president reentered the JCPOA. The problem is that the next president could just come along and pull another Trump. And the sanctions regime that brought Iran to the table in the first place was very difficult to forge, so that won't be duplicated ever again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I don't disagree that Us political system being highly volatile makes it practically impossible for countries to make any long term agreements with US. The only rational thing to do is to deter the Us militarily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the sanctions regime that brought Iran to the table in the first place was very difficult to forge, so that won't be duplicated ever again.

Oh that’s awful it was so difficult to forge your apparatus for terrorizing the Iranian people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

China and Russia also had sanctions. It was extremely hard to put together, but competing powers all agreed that they didn't want another nuclear armed power mixed in with the mess in the Middle East.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The US was the one that initiated it regardless, and I think China and Russia’s support for UN sanctions on Iran was incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Nobody has any reason to trust the United States no matter who is in charge, correct.