Trump tore up the original Iran Nuclear Agreement

[khaolakguy]

Pity that Trump tore up the original Iran Nuclear agreement in his first term. That plan had been negotiated over a period of five years by the major countries of the world including the EU, Russia and China with Iran and included Iran's agreement to limit and reduce it's nuclear capacity under the strict supervision of the IAEA. 

The other objectors at the time were Israel and Saudi Arabia. 

Original Iran Nuclear deal

[PeterRS]

7 hours ago, khaolakguy said:

Pity that Trump tore up the original Iran Nuclear agreement in his first term. That plan had been negotiated over a period of five years by the major countries of the world including the EU, Russia and China with Iran and included Iran's agreement to limit and reduce it's nuclear capacity under the strict supervision of the IAEA. 

A pity bordering on a disaster, alas! I think I am right in suggesting that in the lead up to his 2016 election Trump had always said he would rip up that agreement despite its being agreed by the world's major powers and approved by most others. As usual Trump lied when he claimed that the agreement would result in the US paying Iran $150 billion. He had no intention of paying Iran 1 cent. In fact the amount was $100 billion and it was not the USA's cash. It was Iran's money frozen by the US authorities. One of the strongest advocates against the deal, although not in the administration at that time, was John Bolton. In recent days he has again claimed it is time to wipe Iran's nuclear facilities off the map.

The really sad aspect of this whole debacle is that Iran is not only a beautiful country with a long and distinguished cutural history, its people are among the most educated, friendly and virtually to a man loathe the regime they live under. History cannot be unwound, but had the CIA and its British allies , greedy for Iran's oil, not deposed Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister in the early 1950s, then backed with masses of cash and military power the megalomaniac Shah, before siding with Iraq in the ensuing ghastly 8 year Iran/Iraq war, everything could have ended up being so different. On my visit a few years ago I noticed this outside the old US Embassy. None of the passers by took the remotest interest in it!