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Vex_id
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"Poll question: Iran Nuclear Deal"
Tue Jul-14-15 08:52 PM by Vex_id

          

Details of deal:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33521655

Poll result (25 votes)
Bold & courageous. Had to at least attempt a good will diplomatic solution (1 votes)Vote
"One of the darkest days of history" ~Netanyahu (1 votes)Vote
I trust whatever the House of Saud says, so it's a bad deal. (1 votes)Vote
France & Germany's opinion > Israel & Saudi Arabia's feelings (4 votes)Vote
Obama's 2nd term is bout that life (18 votes)Vote
I'm Ron Dermer (crank that NeoCon Boy) (0 votes)Vote

  

  

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Subject Author Message Date ID
Obviously some sort of agreement was both fair and necessary
Jul 15th 2015
1
RE: the monitoring is effective
Jul 15th 2015
25
Damned if you do, damned if you don't - I don't trust Iran at all
Jul 15th 2015
2
there are much more unstable regimes with nukes....
Jul 15th 2015
6
      This is so uninformed I can't take it seriously. At all.
Jul 15th 2015
7
           They don't have our best interests at hand at all.
Jul 15th 2015
18
           how does Iran "basically have a nuke right now"?
Jul 15th 2015
19
           That's fine.
Jul 15th 2015
26
am radio was awesome today
Jul 15th 2015
3
This could be huge.
Jul 15th 2015
4
it made no sense. We were cosy with Pakistan and S. Arabia
Jul 15th 2015
5
No. No. NO! This is wrong. Pakistan STOLE nuclear informaiton
Jul 15th 2015
8
      LOL. You're a wierdo man. I didn't say how they got it
Jul 15th 2015
10
      i enjoyed this post.
Jul 15th 2015
20
I don't know enough to have an informed opinion but I have a hard time
Jul 15th 2015
9
has Kerry had work done on his face?
Jul 15th 2015
11
RE: has Kerry had work done on his face?
Jul 15th 2015
12
Nixon, Reagan...Obama?
Jul 15th 2015
13
^^ all of this.
Jul 15th 2015
14
yeah he's killing it lately
Jul 15th 2015
21
So Iran just has to wait out the 15 years
Jul 15th 2015
15
the latter may be, the former i think it really speculative
Jul 15th 2015
17
Nukes are inevitable. Better to integrate them into the int'l community....
Jul 15th 2015
16
Shoutout to Bibi for making this possible by being such a dick
Jul 15th 2015
22
props to Obama. i think Iran is more of a "natural ally" to the US then ...
Jul 15th 2015
23
very good and understated points:
Jul 29th 2015
28
TLDR, vote no (c) GOP
Jul 15th 2015
24
lol @ the Huckabee, Cruz, Cotton, AIPAC Bibi crazies wild'ing out.
Jul 29th 2015
27
Amidst sectarian divisions - partisan showdown on Nuclear Deal imminent:...
Jan 10th 2016
29
Iran is playing along but they ain't dumb
Jan 10th 2016
30
W. Post reporter Rezaian and 3 others released by Iran
Jan 16th 2016
31
This was the most impressive diplomatic achievement of my lifetime
Jan 05th 2020
32
oh my lord
Jan 05th 2020
33

ConcreteCharlie
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1. "Obviously some sort of agreement was both fair and necessary"
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I have thought that for about 10 years. Now whether or not the provisions here are adequate, the monitoring is effective and Iran complies in a relative way, that all remains to be seen.

And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  

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25. "RE: the monitoring is effective"
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Wed Jul-15-15 12:59 PM by bentagain

  

          

isn't this how we got into a war with Iraq in the first place

i.e. they wouldn't comply with inspections

suprised the GOP hawks are so adamant about rejecting the deal

even before it's done

other than DEM/Barry O hate

couldn't this outline a clear path to war with Iran

that they seem so fixated on

I was listening to an interview the other day

with a former government employee

who said something along the lines...

every year of my employment we are told Iran is on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon

and when it doesn't happen

they are 3-5 years away from going nuclear

(c) since 93'



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GameTheory
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2. "Damned if you do, damned if you don't - I don't trust Iran at all"
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Iran basically has a nuke right now but theres not much we can do without flattening the whole place.

  

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6. "there are much more unstable regimes with nukes...."
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>Iran basically has a nuke right now but theres not much we
>can do without flattening the whole place.


Iran is not the big bad boogeyman the news had led you to believe.

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GameTheory
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7. "This is so uninformed I can't take it seriously. At all."
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Iran funded shia uprisings all around the world in an attempt to shore up against sunni islamic hegemony funded by the Saudis.

They've killed assloads of americans and do NOT have our interest at hands.

And what other nations do you mean? North Korea? The people who used the stolen information from AQ Khan who helped Pakistan with information he stole from the dutch while working at a nuclear facility?

Iran IS an absolute shit country in dire need of reform and nuclear ambitions only entrench them into more legitimacy and not the liberalism that place is in dire need of.

  

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18. "They don't have our best interests at hand at all."
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>They've killed assloads of americans and do NOT have our
>interest at hands.

But they do have their own self interest.

The idea they are gonna start stockpiling and launching nukes at Israel/S.Arabia and the US is myopic at best. As of 2015 S.Arabia has MUCH more US blood on their ends then Iran and that's a fact, and we are BFF.


  

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19. "how does Iran "basically have a nuke right now"?"
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>Iran funded shia uprisings all around the world in an attempt
>to shore up against sunni islamic hegemony funded by the
>Saudis.

so you're in favor of sunni islamic hegemony?


>They've killed assloads of americans and do NOT have our
>interest at hands.

and the Saudis do?


>And what other nations do you mean? North Korea? The people
>who used the stolen information from AQ Khan who helped
>Pakistan with information he stole from the dutch while
>working at a nuclear facility?

not sure what relevance this has to anything.


>Iran IS an absolute shit country in dire need of reform and
>nuclear ambitions only entrench them into more legitimacy and
>not the liberalism that place is in dire need of.

then maybe we shouldn't have overthrown the liberal democracy they already had.

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26. "That's fine."
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Wed Jul-15-15 01:04 PM by guru0509

  

          

>Iran funded shia uprisings all around the world in an attempt
>to shore up against sunni islamic hegemony funded by the
>Saudis.

So? They're a brutally persecuted minority within the Islamic World. They did what they thought they had to do, to ensure survival.

Iran (& India) are really the only safe haven for Shia muslims on this planet.


>They've killed assloads of americans and do NOT have our
>interest at hands.



lol, you typing like a NeoCon. "We" killed thousands of Iranians by selling weapons to Iraq during the Iraq/Iran war. A little nuance in your views would go a long way.


>And what other nations do you mean? North Korea? The people
>who used the stolen information from AQ Khan who helped
>Pakistan with information he stole from the dutch while
>working at a nuclear facility?

I'm Indian. Trust, I know all about Abdul Qadeer Khan and his stolen nukes.


>Iran IS an absolute shit country in dire need of reform and
>nuclear ambitions only entrench them into more legitimacy and
>not the liberalism that place is in dire need of.

lol ok.

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3. "am radio was awesome today"
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apparently obama just kicked off the second jewish holocaust.

  

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4. "This could be huge."
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Wed Jul-15-15 05:50 AM by TheAlbionist

  

          

Iran has by many accounts been on the cusp of a middle class revolution (revolution might be too extreme a word) which threatened an end to theocracy, but international sanctions were definitely holding them back from achieving the sort of economic independence required... if the middle classes really can burgeon then they could become a very popular/influential nation, very quickly... and hopefully you can then see some sort of positive Domino effect radiating out.

Or something shady comes to light in the next year or so and we all go to war again anyway...

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5. "it made no sense. We were cosy with Pakistan and S. Arabia"
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and those dudes were DEF. more responsible for Western terrorist attacks then Iran.

And Pakistan has nukes.

We can always use another ally, and on some fucked up shit game of Risk shit, another major player in the region can only be good for us and Israel; other countries in the region have no love for Iran and having them move up in ranks means less heat for Israel and ultimately us when they need to stir up their populace.

  

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8. "No. No. NO! This is wrong. Pakistan STOLE nuclear informaiton"
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Pakistan only got nukes because AQ Khan was working as a metallurgist in Europe at this nuclear plant and saw Pakistan was getting its ass kicked in the war vs India so he decided to "help" his homeland.

Long story short he got Pakistan the bomb then started selling the damn plans to other nations including meetings with Iran, the Saudis, Libya, Iraq and North Korea.

Fill in the blanks.

Pakistan holds the USA hostage because India is a much better ally but pakistan is so unstable they need massive amounts of aid yet they burned us in Afghanistan

  

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10. "LOL. You're a wierdo man. I didn't say how they got it"
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Wed Jul-15-15 08:07 AM by BigReg

  

          

I mean, Ill let you rock with your 'FUCK PAKISTAN' rant(is that what you are saying?), and I agree that one of the reasons why we are so close is because without us it would their entire state would dissolve, but it doesn't change what I wrote above. At the end of the day

1)Having more allies in the region helps us
2)Furthermore, having a slightly more antagonistic ally in the region will help us also since we haven't been able to reign in our 'friends'.

  

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20. "i enjoyed this post. "
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>Pakistan only got nukes because AQ Khan was working as a
>metallurgist in Europe at this nuclear plant and saw Pakistan
>was getting its ass kicked in the war vs India so he decided
>to "help" his homeland.
>
>Long story short he got Pakistan the bomb then started selling
>the damn plans to other nations including meetings with Iran,
>the Saudis, Libya, Iraq and North Korea.
>
>Fill in the blanks.
>
>Pakistan holds the USA hostage because India is a much better
>ally but pakistan is so unstable they need massive amounts of
>aid yet they burned us in Afghanistan

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9. "I don't know enough to have an informed opinion but I have a hard time"
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believing folks who argue either this is the best thing ever or the worst thing ever.

My greatest hope is that this delays their nuclear weapon ambitions long enough for the middle class to throw out the fundamentalist.

I think engagement is a superior policy than trying to isolate folks we don't like.

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11. "has Kerry had work done on his face?"
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fillers? botox? what's up?

fuck you.

  

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12. "RE: has Kerry had work done on his face?"
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http://surgerystars.com/john-kerry-plastic-surgery/

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13. "Nixon, Reagan...Obama?"
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Nixon and Reagan negotiated with our worst enemies and in the first case, opened to us what would turn out to be the world's biggest market and the second, reduced the nuclear arsenal of a country that was committed to our destruction. For their efforts, they went down in history as the greatest foreign policy presidents ever. (Yes they were scumbags at home, but that's another post)

Love him or hate him, you have to respect Obama at this point. Straight not giving a fuck and stomping all over his enemies (Cuba, Obamacare, and now Iran) is making Repubs MAD and I can clap to that. He was running the long con on them for years and it's now bearing fruit. Fox news and their lemmings kept on underestimating him and now they can stay MAD. Repubs at this point are Jay-Z the day after Ether dropped status. Obama: making their souls burn slow.

  

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14. "^^ all of this."
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>Nixon and Reagan negotiated with our worst enemies and in the
>first case, opened to us what would turn out to be the world's
>biggest market and the second, reduced the nuclear arsenal of
>a country that was committed to our destruction. For their
>efforts, they went down in history as the greatest foreign
>policy presidents ever. (Yes they were scumbags at home, but
>that's another post)
>
>Love him or hate him, you have to respect Obama at this point.
> Straight not giving a fuck and stomping all over his enemies
>(Cuba, Obamacare, and now Iran) is making Repubs MAD and I can
>clap to that. He was running the long con on them for years
>and it's now bearing fruit. Fox news and their lemmings kept
>on underestimating him and now they can stay MAD. Repubs at
>this point are Jay-Z the day after Ether dropped status.
>Obama: making their souls burn slow.
>

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21. "yeah he's killing it lately"
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http://www.youtube.com/user/gumzization
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15. "So Iran just has to wait out the 15 years"
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And then start up again?

This is probably going to make the proxy wars in that region only more intense

  

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17. "the latter may be, the former i think it really speculative"
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obviously at the end of the term we will re-evaluate and re-negotiate.

i don't know about the effect on proxy wars in the region. the overall stability there is not exactly ideal so that's a mixed bag, but i do acknowledge they could flare up.

And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  

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16. "Nukes are inevitable. Better to integrate them into the int'l community...."
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...then continually ostracizing them, to the point they have nothing to lose. We are never going to see eye to eye on certain core issues, but giving them a taste of a better world gives them a stake in maintaining it.

  

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22. "Shoutout to Bibi for making this possible by being such a dick"
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23. "props to Obama. i think Iran is more of a "natural ally" to the US then ..."
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more liberal populace, they have the Ayatollah but also have a parliament and some other semblance of a checks and balance system, and they even have provisions for gays to live peacefully
most of the riff was agenda shit from existing allies (SA, israel)

other part of iran getting more friendly with US is it could help us deal with the sunni extremists in the proxy war(s)
it's much easier to arm shiite opposition groups in yemen, syria, and iraq if you dead (or minimize) the evil america narrative by having relations with the country supplying them with dough and weapons

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28. "very good and understated points:"
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>more liberal populace, they have the Ayatollah but also have
>a parliament and some other semblance of a checks and balance
>system, and they even have provisions for gays to live
>peacefully
>most of the riff was agenda shit from existing allies (SA,
>israel)
>
>other part of iran getting more friendly with US is it could
>help us deal with the sunni extremists in the proxy war(s)
>it's much easier to arm shiite opposition groups in yemen,
>syria, and iraq if you dead (or minimize) the evil america
>narrative by having relations with the country supplying them
>with dough and weapons

Sadly, I've heard multiple people (whom many consider to be authorities in business and/or politics) equate Iran with ISIS, which is so egregiously uninformed and ignorant that it discounts anything else that person has to say about the MidEast.

I agree that we have more in common with Iran than Saudi Arabia - particularly with the people. 70% of Iranian population is under 35 years old, and they are lightyears more progressive than the Ayatollah simps who are holding on to a decaying, archaic system. If we can hold off this regime for another 10-15 years, they will be cycled out and a new governing class will modernize and improve upon Iranian society. You can't say the same thing about Saudi Arabia or even Israel's youth. The House of Saud is one of the most corrupt dictatorships on Earth, and their brand of extremism is responsible for more terrorism (by proxy) than Iran, yet never called out on it like Iran.


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24. "TLDR, vote no (c) GOP"
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27. "lol @ the Huckabee, Cruz, Cotton, AIPAC Bibi crazies wild'ing out."
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The Iran Deal Must Be Shielded From Hyperbole

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/82184a3e-3511-11e5-b05b-b01debd57852.html#axzz3hKijoPPC

There are still seven weeks before Congress votes on the Iran deal but opponents’ rhetoric is already past boiling point. Mike Huckabee, the Republican presidential hopeful, said this week that Barack Obama’s deal would “march Israel up to the doors of the oven” — a grotesque reference to the Holocaust. Mr Huckabee has refused to disown his analogy.
Ted Cruz, another White House hopeful, said Mr Obama had made himself into the leading state sponsor of terrorism by agreeing to unfreeze $100bn or more in Iran’s assets. Tom Cotton, a senator from Arkansas, likened John Kerry, the secretary of state, to Pontius Pilate, for having “washed his hands” of the deal’s compliance regime. The International Atomic Energy Agency is separately negotiating the rules of inspection with Iran.

The list goes on. Supporters are bracing for a long, hot August of more such invective. But critics should beware. The more they holler, the harder it will be for America’s partners to keep unity on the world’s best shot in years at bottling Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deal’s more sober opponents risk being drowned out by the hyperbole. They have two objections. The first is that the deal will replenish the coffers of Al-Quds and other arms of the Iranian revolution. Far from restraining the mullahs, it would nourish a new bout of regional adventurism. Hizbollah, Syria’s Assad regime, and Yemen’s Houthi rebels would benefit most.

Such collateral damage is indeed one possibility. Yet the deal itself conveys advantages. Mr Obama is betting the boost to economic engagement that flows from the agreement will bolster the reformers who negotiated it — not least Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, and the country’s best hope of steering it in a more moderate direction. It is the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (Isis), rather than Hizbollah and its Shia offshoots, that poses the greater threat to US national interests. The same applies to Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, argues otherwise. But he has built his career, and a shaky new coalition government, on ginning up the existential threat from Iran.

Second, critics complain that the deal postpones, rather than dismantles, Iran’s nuclear ambitions. They are right. The agreement is set to last a minimum of 10 years after which all bets are off. But they fail to spell out any better alternative. Should Congress reject the deal in September, and override Mr Obama’s veto, Iran would be free of virtually all constraint. It would almost certainly accelerate its nuclear programme. The US, and Israel, would just as assuredly step up threats of military action to stop it. It is hard to overstate how destabilising that would be.

It is also very hard to see how this would improve US, or Israeli, national security. In addition, Washington’s move would be unilateral. America’s partners, notably the Europeans, China and Russia, have made it clear they will lift Iranian sanctions regardless of what the US does. Rejection by Capitol Hill would thus bring about the worst of both worlds. Iran’s assets would be unfrozen and it would be far more disposed to put them to bad use.

None of these arguments has any chance of winning over the deal’s
diehard critics, such as Mr Huckabee and Mr Cruz. Their aim is to gain attention in a crowded Republican race increasingly dominated by Donald Trump. All the more reason to ignore them. Mr Trump cannot be the standard by which serious diplomacy is measured. The pros and cons of Mr Obama’s Iran agreement deserve the closest scrutiny. The rhetorical bomb throwers are no Greek chorus. They should exit, stage right.

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Vex_id
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29. "Amidst sectarian divisions - partisan showdown on Nuclear Deal imminent:..."
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-congress-idUKKBN0UL29K20160107

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30. "Iran is playing along but they ain't dumb"
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if you don't have proper protection you will get got (internationally)

I'm sure they have something up their proverbial sleeves and I don't blame them.

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31. "W. Post reporter Rezaian and 3 others released by Iran"
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Just days after Iran released our sailors within 24 hours of their inadvertent breach into Iranian water space off of Farsi Island.

The Deal is already reaping positive results.

Obeezy w/ another W.

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32. "This was the most impressive diplomatic achievement of my lifetime"
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and now it's dead - after years of bullying and the U.S. sabotaging the JCPOA - Iran finally said enough is enough:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51001167
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33. "oh my lord"
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