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Iran Has Signed a Nuclear Accord
New submitter divide overflow writes: According to the New York Times, 'Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States have agreed to a historic accord to significantly limit Tehran's nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions against Iran, a senior Western diplomat involved in the negotiations said on Tuesday. The deal, which President Obama had long sought as the biggest diplomatic achievement of his presidency, culminates 20 months of negotiations.' Not everyone approves.
History will be the judge, unfortunately it will probably be written in Nasta'liq script.
Want to really fight ISIS? We'll need Iran and Syria as allies if you actually want to win.
Fuck Netanyahu. If you listen to him, he'll take you right into WWIII. Let him go to Masada by himself if he's so determined to commit suicide.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
When you said "Not everyone approves" for a second I worried that it was talking about someone who is, oh I dunno, an American and not a foreign politician with a decades-long bias toward keeping the US hostile toward Iran.
Sadly Netanyahu has a lot more say in US government policay than most Americans do. If the US would just give Israel the spanking they deserve, tell them to put on their big boy pants, and make a deal with Palestine so that both groups (who both have legitimate claims) can live in peace it would go a long way to making the MIddle East a more peaceful place. Oh, yeah, and stop the damn settlements you idiots and maybe you would get a little more support in the international community. And Palestinians, please stop shooting rockets from backyards and using schools and hospitals to store your weapons, because you know Israel is just going to bomb them. Your little spat is taking attention away from the bigger mess going on in the MIddle East, namely ISIS.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Let's review, shall we?
Iran: Never invaded anyone, never used weapons of mass destruction against anyone, never posed a serious threat to anyone except Hussein's Iraq.
U.S.: Invaded Iraq with no provocation, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons, have overthrown countless democratically elected governments (including the one in Iran).
So remind me, WHO'S the threat to world peace again?
Oh, and if you're going to say that Iran "supported terrorism," well not only is there no serious evidence of that, but CIA agents in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
... boldly declared its intention to wipe out both Israel and the United States.
Please.
That's just political posturing and propaganda. Even IF Iran gets nukes, they would be no threat to the US. And as far as Israel is concerned, they have plenty for retaliation. And it will never get that far. Israel will violate international law like they always do and just bomb the shit out of Iran's nuke labs and stir up a shit load of trouble and then come crying to the US to bail them out of their dickishness.
We have given concessions to a country that has repeatedly lied, hidden, deceived,...
That statement can be applied to Israel. I cannot count how many times she has double crossed and screwed over the US.
As an American, I am sick and tired of my government aligning our interests with a rogue state that has no interest in peace in the Middle East - or at least peace by Israel's terms which from her actions means Israel has total domination over the Middle East.
Frankly, with "allies" like Israel, who the fuck needs enemies.
Oh fuck off. Even North Korea, a genuinely nutty state, represents at best a regional threat. The Great Powers remain essentially untouchable, and for fuck's sake, Iran has several nearby nuclear states (China, Pakistan, India, Israel and Russia) who possess arsenals of one form or another. The whole point of the plan is that the signatory powers (all of which are nuclear states themselves) will have probably a year or more from Iran going into technical breach to mount a response.
Christ all fucking mighty, grow up. Iran does not represent a meaningful threat to the US, and any future existential threat it may represent to Israel is countered by the fact that if it ever mounted a nuclear attack on Israel or Saudi Arabia, the Iranian state, and probably millions of Iranians, would be killed in turn.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You seem to think Iran is not a rational player, and that's something I don't buy. It's belligerent, to be sure, but so was the USSR. So no, I don't actually believe the "rogue element" claim any more than I would about Pakistan.
And critics need to be reminded again and again that no one believes Iran has a nuclear device yet.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.