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Donald Pulling USA Out of Iran Deal

Things that go hmmmmm... :)

I find the situation in North Korea and Iran humorous, if the truth weren’t likely to be so heinous.

The about-face turn around in the relationships with these two and the dismantling of ISIS in a little over a year. We have gone from nuclear threats to nothing.Crickets from the liberals and their industrial grade news pipe.

No more selling our Uranium. No more underground cabals. No more drugs for arms. What Trump has done is effectively ended a modern version of Iran-Contra and all the Obama, Clinton, Kerry and Merkel butt-holes will have to suffer seeing their precious deal imploded.

Awesome move, Mr President
I mean this will all malice.

You're a fucking idiot.
 
As for "selling our uranium" - uranium is so damn cheap and widely abundant (about 100x more than silver with far less demand and usefulness) that you can't get firms to keep mines open or explore new finds basically anywhere in the world. In many ways, raw uranium is nearly worthless.

The USA imports most of the raw uranium used as fuel in this country because it's dirt cheap that way (part of the reason Uranium One was sold was because the USA was happy anyone would even keep the mining going).

There's a massive glut of uranium and even enriched uranium fuel (LEU) globally. We'd be fucking thrilled to have more customers to sell to and absorb excess global capacity.
 
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It’s all about Nuclear Mini-Subs

William Campbell and Sigma Transnational

Follow the cake to find the cake
 
Remember that cast of characters who insisted that Saddam was wilier than the inspectors and that he was secretly holding WMD stockpiles? They're the same ones insisting that Iran is wilier than the inspectors and that they are secretly cheating on the nuclear deal. The first episode ended poorly. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/iraq-war-iran-deal/559844/

15 years ago I was younger and more naive, and I trusted the administration and figured they must have some compelling intelligence that convinced them that Saddam had WMD. I certainly am not willing to extend the current administration the same benefit of the doubt, and no one else with any brains should be either.
 
“Follow The Money: Three Billionaires Paved Way For Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal” [Lobe Log]. “[T]oday’s unpopular announcement [from Trump on Iran] may have been exactly what two of Trump’s biggest donors, Sheldon Adelson and Bernard Marcus, and what one of his biggest inaugural supporters, Paul Singer, paid for when they threw their financial weight behind Trump. Marcus and Adelson, who are also board members of the Likudist Republican Jewish Coalition, have already received substantial returns on their investment: total alignment by the U.S. behind Israel, next week’s move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and the official dropping of “occupied territories” to describe the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Adelson, for his part, was Trump and the GOP’s biggest campaign supporter. He and his wife Miriam contributed $35 million in outside spending to elect Trump, $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund (a super PAC exclusively dedicated to securing a GOP majority in the House of Representatives), and $35 million to the Senate Leadership Fund (the Senate counterpart) in the 2016 election cycle.” Ka-ching. Although, since money is speech, I guess they were just haveing a “conversation”? And I guess this makes Joe Biden wrong?

RJ is right, again
 
the reasons why the Donald pulled out of the Iran deal:

he promised to do so during the campaign

he thought it was a lousy deal

his big donors wanted him to

his Israeli and the Saudi friends did not like the Iran deal

the Iranians were cheating already

he was signaling North Korea that he would dump any deal with them, if Kim tried to reneg

negatives:

not usually good to repudiate agreements

US can't impose very effective sanctions against Iran alone

gas prices will rise and have dampening effect on the economy

Europeans unhappy, but will take advantage of economic opportunities in Iran

wont stop Iran's development of nuclear weapons, probably can't be stopped anyway

renegotiated agreement unlikely for the time being
 
the reasons why the Donald pulled out of the Iran deal:

he promised to do so during the campaign

he thought it was a lousy deal

his big donors wanted him to

his Israeli and the Saudi friends did not like the Iran deal

the Iranians were cheating already

he was signaling North Korea that he would dump any deal with them, if Kim tried to reneg

negatives:

not usually good to repudiate agreements

US can't impose very effective sanctions against Iran alone

gas prices will rise and have dampening effect on the economy

Europeans unhappy, but will take advantage of economic opportunities in Iran

wont stop Iran's development of nuclear weapons, probably can't be stopped anyway

renegotiated agreement unlikely for the time being

His big doners wanted him to withdraw is a positive?
 
the reasons why the Donald pulled out of the Iran deal:

he promised to do so during the campaign

he thought it was a lousy deal

his big donors wanted him to

his Israeli and the Saudi friends did not like the Iran deal

the Iranians were cheating already

he was signaling North Korea that he would dump any deal with them, if Kim tried to reneg

negatives:

not usually good to repudiate agreements

US can't impose very effective sanctions against Iran alone

gas prices will rise and have dampening effect on the economy

Europeans unhappy, but will take advantage of economic opportunities in Iran

wont stop Iran's development of nuclear weapons, probably can't be stopped anyway

renegotiated agreement unlikely for the time being

Where is the evidence that Iran was cheating already?
 
How will this influence the upcoming meeting and overall strategy with NK?
 
When your boy was in office there were weekly beheadings and nightclubs shot up on a monthly basis. Not so much now that the US has a real Leader at the helm

So anecdotes instead of cites. My suspicion is that the news sites you visit stopped focusing predominantly on ISIS when Obama wasn't there to point the finger towards.
 
he was signaling North Korea that he would dump any deal with them, if Kim tried to reneg

Also signals to them that a deal with the US government isn’t worth the paper it’s drawn on with Donald’s crayon, so why bother?
 
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