The lunacy of an agreement with Iran:
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 15 times, I am an idiot!!
Iran is like the cat that is playing with the mouse before they devour it. It is a game with them and they know exactly what they are doing and having fun doing it.
The agreement or lack of one between Iran and the USA the rest of the free world’s powers, with the USA spearheading the talks, is comparable to a mother telling her brat kid that she is going to give them a time out 20 times and never follows through with her idle threats. The brat has her number and will take advantage of their inept mama every chance they get.
John Kerry, the used car rep for the USA, being guided by Obama, doesn’t have the backbone to take the hard road with Iran and give them a take it or leave it ultimatum. This should be a one sided arrangement; either Iran falls in line or suffer the consequences; cut and dry.
FORTUNE
The following are most of the highlights of what Iran is being asked to agree to. The are not unreasonable if they do not have ill intentions.
- Centrifuges
Iran would have to reduce its total of about 19,000 centrifuges — 10,000 of which are still spinning today — down to 6,104 under the deal, with only 5,060 allowed to enrich uranium over the next 10 years. Centrifuges are tube-shaped machines used to enrich uranium, the material necessary for nuclear power — and nuclear bombs.
- Uranium enrichment
Iran’s centrifuges will only enrich uranium to 3.67% — enough for civil use to power parts of the country, but not enough to build a nuclear bomb. That agreement lasts 15 years. And Tehran has agreed not to build any new uranium enrichment facilities over that period as well. The 3.67% is a major decline, and it follows Iran’s move to water down its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium last year. In addition, Iran will reduce its current stockpile of 10,000 kilograms of low-enriched uranium to 300 kilograms for 15 years.
- Breakout time
The period of time that it would take for Iran to acquire the material it needs to make one nuclear weapon, currently assessed at two to three months, would be extended to about one year under the deal. That year-long breakout period would be in place for at least 10 years.
- Fordow facility
Iran’s Fordow nuclear reactor would stop enriching uranium for at least 15 years. It will not have fissile material at the facility, but it will be able to keep 1,000 centrifuges there. Fordow, one of the country’s biggest reactors, is buried more than 200 feet under the side of a mountain and was hidden from the international community until the U.S. revealed it in 2009.
- Research and development
Iran can continue its research and development on enrichment, but that work will be limited to keep the country to its breakout time frame of one year. Though Iran will be required to make changes at a number of its facilities — including reducing centrifuges and rebuilding a heavy water reactor in Arak — the country will get to maintain its current facilities.
- Inspections
Iran will be required to provide inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, access to all of its declared facilities so that the agency can ensure there is no potential for military-related developments. That includes access to Parchin, an Iranian military facility related to its nuclear program. Western countries have been seeking unfettered access throughout Iran, not just declared facilities, as Iran has previously conducted nuclear work in secret. Iran will never uphold their part of transparency and allow unlimited inspections.
- Sanctions lifted
The United States and the European Union would lift their nuclear-related sanctions on the Iranian economy — a priority for Iran — after a U.N. watchdog verifies it has taken key steps. If there are violations, the sanctions will snap back into place. U.N. sanctions will also be lifted when Iran completes its nuclear-related steps, though some peripheral restrictions will be contained in a new Security Council resolution. International reductions in purchases of Iranian oil and increased isolation of the Middle Eastern country had squeezed its economy in recent years, and the lifting of those sanctions could bring the country major financial rewards.
The major problem is, Iran has never complied with any agreement they have signed on the dotted line for. How can they be trusted?
Iran can come out of this agreement smelling like a rose monetarily if they play ball according to the rules.
With the sanctions in place as they are now, Iranian industry is currently operating at about 60 to 70% capacity. As we can see the sanctions are having a very big impact on the country’s economy and have put a defiant crimp in the Iranian people’s lifestyle. I say squeeze harder.
Iran is now operating with a $420 billion economy with sanctions in place and can accelerate 7 – 10 % in 18 months if the deal goes through. Where are the minuses?
Being that Iran is so notorious for breaking any and all agreements in the past, how can they be trusted to abide by the agreement in these proceedings? The answer is, they can’t.
Let us not forget that we are dealing with people that have no value for human life, including their own. How do you reason with people of that type of warped mentality?
Iran will do the same thing that North Korea did. Make an agreement, take the money they were given, laugh all the way to the bank and thumb their nose at the suckers that ponied up the big bucks.
Going all the way back to 1985 when North Korea joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, they have not kept their part of the bargain with any of the rules and agreements they signed on the dotted line for.
Sanctions were lifted on North Korea as agreed and 100’s of billions of dollars and concession were handed to them; in essence paying them behave themselves.
They used the good faith money that was given to do exactly what they agreed not to do; further their nuclear capabilities. Today they are a nuclear powerhouse and a gigantic threat to the entire world; especially with the unpredictable brat running the country.
If history repeats itself, the benevolent, imbecilic USA and the other world powers will come to terms with Iran and Iran will pull a Pearl Harbor on the agreement just like North Korea did. I hope I am wrong.
Bear in mind; all the while these fruitless meeting are taking place, Iran is calling for the destruction of the USA and the annihilation of Israel. They have a great way of trying to win friends and influencing people.
Iranian General: ‘Erasing Israel Off the Map’ Is ‘Nonnegotiable’
This guy makes it sound as easy as swatting a fly on a window.
Putting everything else aside and attempting to use some logic and common-sense; would anyone in the right mind fund a person or a country that has vowed to wipe them off the map? Helloooooooooo
It is very unfortunate that the citizens of Iran have to suffer because of their leaders. In politics around the world, including the USA, we can see the disastrous fallout of the ill-conceived decisions our leaders make.
I have always maintained; for the most part all people in the world are good; it is their governments that are corrupted.
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