Over the course of this siege, U.S. policymakers have been very explicit about their goals. It said that Iran’s leadership would have to “avoid the temptation to spend large parts of the windfall on consumption” and avoid spending on wasteful projects. Third, to take away its power to enrich uranium.
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If Iran is in a position to simultaneously expand its relations with several Asian countries, including powerful adversaries of the West, those partnerships will be fueled by the Islamic Republic’s overall de-sanctioned economic growth.
“I am far from convinced that the US Congress are going to endorse President Obama’s agreement with the Iranian President, Rouhani”. Eighth, as Kerry put it, to not phase down sanctions until after Iran ends its nuclear bomb-making capabilities. He told reporters that the U.S. wasn’t informed in advance of the Swiss move to drops its sanctions.
“If it had only been Iran’s nuclear programme that had been vulnerable during the period of negotiations with the P5+1, the July 14 agreement would be a failure, full stop”.
Iran’s nuclear advance comes as the country pours tens of billions of dollars of unfrozen money into building its conventional armed forces, while unleashing a tsunami of funds to support some of the region’s more malevolent forces – Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria’s Bashar Assad and Shiite Houthis in Yemen. After eight years, all restrictions on ballistic missiles are lifted.
Meanwhile, European refineries have indicated their preparedness to restart purchasing Iranian crude oil once anti-Iran sanctions are terminated.
Wars, military or economic, are measured by whether you achieved your stated objectives.
History provides reasons to be skeptical of U.S. ability to detect and gauge secret Iranian nuclear activity.
“The question is, how much and to what extent would they go to try and deceive us?”
Within Iran the conflicting figures have led to sharp criticism, prompting the Central Bank of Iran (ICB) to release more detailed information (mostly in interviews rather than official reports) about their value and composition. It’s striking how little Obama thought of the tools at his disposal. We know their contents. Over the longer term, there may be more rewards.
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That’s a key theme for proponents of the deal: They say it is designed to be especially intrusive because it is based not on blind faith in Iran, but, to the contrary, on an awareness that Iran has been deceitful in the past and could mislead the worldwide community again. “It can be done simply by actively acknowledging the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people and supporting the existing opposition to the regime on both the regional and the domestic scale”.
