So we’re okay with them having a bomb, they just have to wait until 2046?
Alarming_Sympathy on
Submission statement: In a press scrum aboard Air Force One on his way back from his summit with Xi Jinping in China, Trump has seemingly announced a shift of his position on Iran’s nuclear program, softening from his previous position of a total end of it to now a 20-year suspension of it. When pressed by a reporter about 20 years not being enough, Trump said it had to be a “real 20 years”, but re-itinerated his patience with Iran was wavering. Trump also claimed the summit ended with the Chinese premier in agreement on Iran never obtaining a nuclear weapon and Tehran needing to re-open the Strait of Hormuz.
Relevance to NL: Well, the madman is the most powerful man on the world, so I guess we do need to still go down the rabbit hole of figuring out how his off-the-cuff remarks could translate to real-world policy and its implication on nuclear proliferation, oil shocks, and general mayhem introduced by this war.
It was reported that in the April round of negotiations between Trump’s admin and the IRI regime’s negotiators, the Iranians offered a 5-year cessation of uranium enrichment with JD Vance countering with this 20-year moratorium instead. However, this is the first time hearing it floated by Trump and perhaps shows some movement of both sides towards each other’s impossible positions. And, more likely, Trump realizing how much of a quagmire he has gotten himself into.
Netanyahu viciously opposed the JCPOA, partly on the grounds of the 10-year sunset clauses. It seems hard not to imagine him not attempting to torpedo an agreement even 20 years, as well. Whether Trump buckles ot Netanyahu again is another question.
And, last of all, it will be macabrely hilarious to see the MAGA/Conservative/Fox News hive mind get their programming update in realtime, having celebrated Trump pulling out of the JCPOA over sunset clauses (which lead to the Iranians enriching a bunch of uranium during the COID-19 pandemic) to now hailing their cult leader for getting into essentially the same deal.
2 Comments
So we’re okay with them having a bomb, they just have to wait until 2046?
Submission statement: In a press scrum aboard Air Force One on his way back from his summit with Xi Jinping in China, Trump has seemingly announced a shift of his position on Iran’s nuclear program, softening from his previous position of a total end of it to now a 20-year suspension of it. When pressed by a reporter about 20 years not being enough, Trump said it had to be a “real 20 years”, but re-itinerated his patience with Iran was wavering. Trump also claimed the summit ended with the Chinese premier in agreement on Iran never obtaining a nuclear weapon and Tehran needing to re-open the Strait of Hormuz.
Relevance to NL: Well, the madman is the most powerful man on the world, so I guess we do need to still go down the rabbit hole of figuring out how his off-the-cuff remarks could translate to real-world policy and its implication on nuclear proliferation, oil shocks, and general mayhem introduced by this war.
It was reported that in the April round of negotiations between Trump’s admin and the IRI regime’s negotiators, the Iranians offered a 5-year cessation of uranium enrichment with JD Vance countering with this 20-year moratorium instead. However, this is the first time hearing it floated by Trump and perhaps shows some movement of both sides towards each other’s impossible positions. And, more likely, Trump realizing how much of a quagmire he has gotten himself into.
Netanyahu viciously opposed the JCPOA, partly on the grounds of the 10-year sunset clauses. It seems hard not to imagine him not attempting to torpedo an agreement even 20 years, as well. Whether Trump buckles ot Netanyahu again is another question.
And, last of all, it will be macabrely hilarious to see the MAGA/Conservative/Fox News hive mind get their programming update in realtime, having celebrated Trump pulling out of the JCPOA over sunset clauses (which lead to the Iranians enriching a bunch of uranium during the COID-19 pandemic) to now hailing their cult leader for getting into essentially the same deal.