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You are misinformed.You’re wishcasting.
The deal left them with no "fairly highly enriched uranium." It imposed a cap of 3.67% enrichment, which was monitored and enforced by the IAEA. That is not enriched enough to be weapons grade. They did not develop "highly enriched uranium" until Trump abrogated the JCPOA. Trump, not Obama, caused them to have highly enriched uranium.Speaking of misinformed.
https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/stolen-nuclear... Consisting of half a ton of information from Iran, including 55,000 pages and 183 CDs, the stolen documents contained detailed information on dozens of nuclear weapons-related projects, some previously unknown outside of Iran. The documents indicated Iran’s nuclear weapons program was far more advanced than it had admitted to the IAEA, that Iran had misled and lied to the IAEA and the international community about its nuclear program in disclosures required by the 2015 nuclear deal, the JCPOA, and that the Iranian government had taken steps to deceive IAEA inspectors after the JCPOA was implemented. The documents also suggested some covert Iranian nuclear weapons activities were still under way.yeah, they were never going to follow any deal.
Again, you are misinformed about the provisions of the JCPOA. It committed Iran to only possessing low-enrichment uranium, well below the levels sufficient to make any kind of weapon - and subjected them to compliance and inspection regimes to make sure they stayed below that level. They weren't let off the hook until Trump abrogated the JCPOA. That's when they started enriching uranium to 60%.This is what the left needs to believe, that the Iranians - the most outlaw of outlaw regimes - suddenly started playing nice.
They weren’t.
https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/t... For the last several days, State Department spokesperson Marie Harf has been at pains to explain why Iran is not violating the interim nuclear agreement, or Joint Plan of Action. For the last few days, the Obama administration has been pushing back against a New York Times article published Monday that quoted an IAEA report documenting how Iran’s “stockpile of nuclear fuel increased about 20 percent over the last 18 months.”Hidden sites, dodging the IAEA and upping their uranium. That sounds more like the Iranians.
https://www.cfr.org/articles/iran-cheating-nuclear... Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said in its annual report that Iran has a “clandestine” effort to seek illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies “at what is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high level.” The findings by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, were issued in a 317-page report last week.Never mind the deal also gave the Iranians cash up front and was silent about all the other things they get up to.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2016/08/18/explaining... The German intelligence body in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, added that during 2015, Iran had made 141 attempts on purchasing nuclear and missile technologies; “Ninety” of which were attempts to “procure technology that could be used for the development of nuclear weapons and launchers.” German intelligence states that they succeeded in thwarting about 90 percent of Iran’s attempts. In 2014, Iran had made 83 similar attempts, which the BfV states indicates a major increase in Iran’s illegal activities after the nuclear agreement was reached. The German intelligence further states that these illegal procurements were usually made “by Iranian strawmen and shell companies through China, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.” The above revelations are what the German intelligence discovered. There might be many more that it did not.
