r/moderatepolitics • u/200-inch-cock unburdened by what has been • 24d ago

Trump Team Weighs Options, Including Airstrikes, to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program News Article

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-iran-plan-nuclear-weapons-def26f1d
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u/wf_dozer 24d ago

You sound like Rumsfeld before Iraq and Afghanistan. It's never that easy and it always involves ground troops if you actually want to get it done. Then we are there for 20 years.

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u/mikePTH 24d ago

Trump will have to bomb Iran because they developed nukes after Trump ended the treaty to prevent them developing nuclear weapons, and you find this anti-war? I have a bridge to sell you and I need cash payment, bud.

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u/Sabertooth767 Neoclassical Liberal 24d ago

JCPOA is still legally in force, it was not a US-Iran treaty. Iran just stopped pretending to follow it.

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u/blewpah 24d ago

It's not like the US was just some pithy inclusion. Obviously there was way less reason for Iran to abide by it once the US pulled out.

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u/Sabertooth767 Neoclassical Liberal 24d ago

Iran was never abiding by it. They just stppped pretending to abide by it.

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u/blewpah 24d ago

So there's a distinct difference in their behavior regarding nuclear armament before and after the US pulled out of the treaty? And it got much worse afterwards?

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u/Sabertooth767 Neoclassical Liberal 24d ago

Mossad found in 2018 (before the withdrawal) that Iran had lied about the goals and progress of the AMAD project. Iran was insincere from the beginning.

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u/blewpah 24d ago

Israel was always vehemently against the deal, Mossad isn't exactly an unbiased observer here. Taking them at face value is like taking the 1960s CIA at face value regarding Cuba or the USSR.

And even if Iran was insincere to an extent, that doesn't necessarily mean the deal being in place wasn't an improvement regarding their capacity or motivation to make a break for a nuclear weapon as opposed to not having it. This is geopolitics not a teenager at a probation hearing.

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u/hawkeye877 24d ago

You're welcome!

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u/cathbadh 24d ago

A "surgical strike" on Iran's nuclear program would entail a sustained air campaign against Iran's air defenses, air bases, missile bases, and something like a dozen nuclear sites spread out around the country, some of which are fortified and buried so deep that it would require repeated bombing of the same sites to ensure we even do any damage.