negatively to this betrayal of an agreement that the hardliners pushed Rouhan NOT to accept because the US could not be trusted. (Consider the childhood rhyme - sticks and stones will hurt my bones, but words will never hurt me) Sadly, the facts are that even our Secretaries of State and Defense admit that Iran IS complying. Trump has made the US be the country NOT in compliance once he reinstates the sanctions.
Throughout the negotiations, both Zarif and Kerry had to contend with their own "hardliners" who for different reasons did NOT want the negotiations to succeed. In fact, the announcement of the framework in spring 2015, which surprised most by being a stronger, more comprehensive deal than anyone had hoped for, was done because the US Congress was on the verge of voting in more sanctions (at the urging of AIPAC), which would have scuttled the deal. The effort against success even included Netanyahu speaking against a deal before Congress. Zarif was repeatedly attacked by Iran's hard liners including for taking a walk with John Kerry in the courtyard of where negotiations were held.
At this point, Rouhani has said they will work with the other countries to determine if the deal can hold without the US - while giving Iran sanctions relief. If that happens, Iran - unlike the US - will keep their word on the deal that the UN security council unanimously approved ... and the US won't. If it doesn't, the fear is that Rouhani will lose power to the hardliners in Iran. Though Bolton and Netanyahu seem to want regime change, tell me ONE country where outside pushed regime change led to better government. If the neocons get their war, it will be a disaster bigger than the Iraq war.
The really stupid thing is that the deal WAS keeping Iran from pursuing a nuclear bomb and it made war far less likely. It is hard to believe that we have actually given Iran, a supporter of terrorism, the high ground here.
We could have had European backing on working against Iran's ballistic weapons. We should have put pressure on Saudi Arabia and UAE to not spike the effort to get a ceasefire and peace plan in Yemen. The Trump administration also was absent in any diplomatic effort on Syria.
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