Iran strikes US bases in Iraq.

[+Erik 1,812]

4 hours ago, whiteknight06604 said:

we should never have given the money back. iran is sued by victims of their terrorism almost daily...they owe and most likely will continue to owe the victims millions upon millions. iran never pays these lawsuits so the victims only way to collect is out of these frozen funds. also it was just a bad bargaining chip,freeing that money was supposed to be a leveraging point in the deal negotiations but all it got was a shitty deal. 

So let's put this into perspective.

The Iran Nuclear Agreement was the love child of the UK, Russia, France, China, Germany, US, and the EU. 

The US unfroze $400,000,000.00 and the other nations combined unfroze $1,100,000,000.00 of Iran's assets. For perspective, the US unfroze 26% of Iran's assets held abroad on deposit with the US for weapons Iran wanted to purchase. Many other nations were punch drunk on the cheap oil from Iran and those countries held the lion's share of assets and debt but it's the US's portion that tipped the scales. This is the shit you get when your options are limited. Wonky lopsided deals and a couple pallets of cash.  

Yes it cost all of us to prevent a breakout of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Iran was months from such a reality when the G5+1 stepped in. The resulting negotiation provided for a 15 year ban on nuclear grade material production, an almost total reduction of Iran's nuclear stockpile, destruction of all but a 10% of their centrifuges, and verification of compliance. The goal was to stop Iran and give the world 15 years to prepare and try to fix this fiasco before Tehran redesigned the landscape from Tel Aviv to the Arabian Sea. That deal has since been revoked by the US while the other signatory nations try to keep it in place but their efforts are failing.

Back in May of 2019 Trump imploded the Iran Nuclear Agreement. By the end of June Iran made notification it was no longer in compliance and was stockpiling nuclear grade material. The world estimated, back in July of 2019, that Iran could once again be breaking out with nuclear weapons within 6 months. That time is now.

What President Trump did was remove the uncertainty of the Iran Nuclear Agreement for the certainty that Iran will breakout as the next nuclear state in the very near future. President Trump promised he was going to negotiate a deal, a much better deal the other nations will be happy with. I'm 100% confident that the way to this new deal did not include assassinating Soleimani. Trump has officially given us a double shit sandwich with no bread dilemma and I'm concerned this posturing by US officials and executives will put millions of lives at risk the moment Iran has had enough.

 

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On 1/10/2020 at 4:45 AM, Nesher said:

 money given to the Iranian regime probably paid for the ballistic missiles fired at US bases in Iraq

ah good now we're dealing with proper villians.

cats in Balad 2005 were sellin us bootleg goods to buy mortar rounds so they could get paid by the death to America crowd.

but at least they usually aim too good, seeing as we were good customers and all