Unfortunately, a certain level of historical literacy is necessary to understand this shop.
The outline of the deal is this, Iran gets sanctions lifted and access to billions of dollars in Iranian funds held in overseas banks. Obama gets a promise that Iran won’t develop nuclear weapons.
The real deal is that Obama has prevented outside military action from interfering with Iran’s nuclear development program; which was the objective all along.
I am not an evangelical, nor Christian in the usual meaning, but I am Religious Science (a.k.a Science of Mind). As such I see much of the Bible as allegory, good common sense. With the nnews of this nuclear deal with Iran in which Kerry and Obama gave the store away and the green light for Iran to go forward with its nuclear program, I am coming to believe our leaders are setting us up for Armeggedon, as in Revelation, Chapter 8 and forward. Iran’s neighbors will not sit idly by, but will enter nuclear proliferation, causing the middle east to become a powder keg. Armegeddon will probably take place in twentyfive years, and civilization, as we now know it, will seek to exist.
I believe Roberto is close to the true, the Saudis will be next (they can afford it) with Russia or Pakistan suppling the weapons, probably Pakistan, h*ll, maybe even the French if they see a Euro in it.
I think Israel will take some kind of action to prevent the Iranians from completing the bomb and the Saudis and Jordan will secretly cheer them on.
Many believe that Saudi Arabia supplied funds for the Pakistan nuclear program with the understanding that 10-20 warheads would be available and delivered whenever the Saudis wanted. They are already paid-for, but it gives the Saudis international-cover having the Pakistanis maintain custody for the time-being.
It’s more-murky if any of the other Gulf emirates participated.
I’m still trying to figure out how Obama sees this as good for Israel. Of course I don’t believe him at all when he says he is a friend of Israel.
I’m also disturbed that Obama got no concessions from Iran. None, zilch, nada.
Seems Donald Trump has single handedly become the opposition party and the watchdog press.
Whatever happened to the ‘checks and balances’ of our Republic, the very pillars of our government? Do we have so many weak and ineffective members of Congress this self absorbed president cannot be stopped if it comes to his veto of a congressional rebuke of this agreement? All this “agreement’ does is kick the can down the road so he can get ‘footnotes’ to his resume. This ‘nuke deal’ will surely start a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and he tells Netanyahu, “don’t worry, be happy?” Preposterous!
The only up-side I see is that Iran short-term will lack the “Shi’ite Bomb”-option, which allows the US and the West some maneuvering-room to attempt to separate the Iranian middle-class from Mullahs and Clerics. The applied-pressure of the sanctions created an atmosphere of nationalist patriotism that over-rode the antipathy of the more-secular middle-class to the Shia Extremism of their leaders.
Conversely, “hope is not a strategy”.
Maybe Obama did get a concession from Iran. Maybe they promised that his favorite golf course would be outside of the blast radius.
But if it glowed in the dark, he could get extra rounds in.
Obama has done a wonderful job at making the world a less safe place. He has encouraged dependency and immature behavior among Americans. How much longer do we have this man child as President? Only another 18 months of agony.
Is anybody going to explain why America should give a damn about Israel or act as grand imperial Caesar over that part of the world?
When was Obama elected president of Iran? Have they amended the Constitution to add it to the several states? I must be missing something. Anybody hates Iran, they must love Obie’s aggressions on Yemen, Iraq, Libya et al. and his world dictator pose generally.
This is COMMUNISM.
American prisoners held hostage by Iran unavailable for comment, Eremon.
Americans killed by Iran’s sponsor of terror (which they’re not stopping) unavailable for comment.
Americans killed by the Iranian guard supporting insurgents in Iraq, unavailable for comment.
Do I need to continue?
And how many Americans would be affected by Iran if America decided to get its own house in order before ordering anybody else around? Are we a republic or an empire? These countries have never bothered us till we bothered them. The world used to fairly worship the US, now G.W. Bush can’t travel to Switzerland and rightly so.
What would you do in Iran’s or Iraq’s or Afghanistan’s position? Exactly how are they supposed to feel about Israel’s junkyard dog? Where are we, one of the most messed up countries on earth, getting the moral authority to victimize them? 9/11 was an inside job, the WMDs were a lie, Obama promised to end the aggressions, Washington invents enemies to save us from.
Well, that last post made clear how far apart reality and Eremon are…
Yep, that’s all you’ve got—calling me crazy.