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Agreed. A question for you. Do you think this is worse ass than the JCPOA, the same ass, or better ass?
It cannot be stressed enough that we are not even yet at the same point as the JCPOA.
In the JCPOA, we agreed to trade unfreezing assets and sanctions relief in exchange for Iranian commitments to limit their nuclear program.
In the MOU, we agreed to trade unfreezing assets and sanctions relief in exchange for Iran agreeing to come back to the bargaining table to talk about possibly limiting their nuclear program.
Again, Trump had to give up most of what the JCPOA offered before negotiations even started. There's no nuclear deal yet. Iran hasn't agreed to a single thing about their nukes yet. This is just the price he had to pay to get the Iranians to start negotiating. This is just the price he had to pay to get the Iranians back to where they were on February 26th.
That's why this is deal is so horrible. Everything we're getting from Iran in the MOU is no more than what we already had before the war. But now, we had to give them access to about $100 billion in frozen assets and sanctions relief both for their oil and gas industries and for all the surrounding financial and transportation restrictions that had kept them penned in. Oh, and we had to spend many tens of billions of our own money - and burn up our own weapons stores - in order to get there.
