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Trump renames Strait of Hormuz to Strait of Trump

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Only a fool would belive that Iran would continue to comply with the 2015 agreement (as they did according to the multiple reports of the IAEA!) when Trump nullifies the same treaty and start to bomb Iran.
Iaea is a joke. You believe that?
 
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Might want to check your facts on that.

Clinton Administration ran from Jan-1993 to Jan-2001

Total US employment went from 109.8 million to 132.7 million (+22.9 million jobs). US manufacturing employment went from 16.8 million to 17.1 million (that's a gain of 315,000 manufacturing jobs).

Unemployment rate went down from 7.3% to 4.2%, while labour force participation went from 66.2% to 67.2%.

The big offshoring of US manufacturing started in the Clinton era (about 1998), but the legislation that allowed it to accelerate wasn't passed until early in the Bush II administration (getting rid of a lot of anti-offshoring provisions in 2002 and again in 2004). US then lost ~5.8 million manufacturing jobs over the course of that administration.

About 1.6 million were added back under Obama and Trump 45. Manufacturing employment in the US recently peaked at about 12.9 million at the start of 2023 and the sector has since shed ~330,000 jobs to about 12.57 million as of February.
I recall, if it wasn't for a republican congress, that would never have happened. Check out your history.
 
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Iaea is a joke. You believe that?
The IAEA isn't American, hence reliable.
The IAEA performed monitoring on site. You didn't. Hence the IAEA is more reliable than you.
 
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That's your opinion.
These are facts.
The IAEA has been performing monitoring on site.
Have you? Have you taken the plane to Iran, gained access to their nuclear facilities and seen that they aren't in compliance withe the 2015 agreement?
If yes to all the above, can you point out in what aspect the Iranian nuclear program deviated from the JCPOA?
I will make life even easy for you: here is the full text of the JCPOA:https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/122460/full-text-of-the-iran-nuclear-deal.pdf
 
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These are facts.
The IAEA has been performing monitoring on site.
Have you? Have you take the plane to Iran, gained access to their nuclear facilities and seen that they aren't in compliance withe the 2015 agreement?
If yes to all the above, can you point out in what aspect the Iranian nuclear program deviated from the JCPOA?
I will make life even easy for you: here is the full text of the JCPOA:https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/122460/full-text-of-the-iran-nuclear-deal.pdf
I can make a video too.
 
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You mean like what happened when Bill Clinton was president and shut down factories all over the United States and sent Americans jobs all across the globe?
No, I mean real global economic instability.
 
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No imminent threat? Ostriches also bury their heads in the sand to pretend there is no danger. Are you pretending there is no danger from a Supreme leader? I mean, come on, the name itself. Democrats like Supreme leaders and terrorists groups like hamas, right? Come on, admit it. You guys love to kill people that aren't agreeing with the lefts insanity.
Not even wrong
 
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Propaganda

What motivation did the International Atomic Energy Agency have to write "propaganda" in an official report written to assess compliance with an international treaty?

Did the US intelligence community also write "propaganda" as well about Iran's compliance with the JCPOA?
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (IRAN)
FINDING
Previous issues leading to findings of violations of both Article II and Article III of the NPT by the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) were resolved as of the 2015 reporting period, despite Iran’s continued refusal to acknowledge or provide certain information about the military dimensions of its past nuclear activities. At the end of December 2016, Iran continued to fulfill its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), resolving for now implementation issues that occurred during the 2016 reporting period.


Iran
Iran remains a significant challenge to the United States within the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Although it continues to implement the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran is engaged in the region’s conflicts to further its security goals and expand its influence with neighboring countries. ...

The JCPOA has curtailed Iran’s nuclear program and has established benchmarks for the lifting of UN restrictions on the import and export of certain advanced conventional weapons and ballistic missiles through 2020 and 2023, respectively—pending Iran’s continued compliance. If the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reaches the “broader conclusion” that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful before those dates, these restrictions will end. Since implementation of the JCPOA, the IAEA has been monitoring Iran’s nuclear-related obligations under the agreement. The agency continues to verify and report that Iran has not enriched uranium above allowable levels, maintains limits on centrifuge numbers, allows the IAEA to monitor nuclear fuel and heavy water stocks, and has been conducting enrichment R&D within JCPOA-prescribed limits.



The JCPOA wasn't perfect and it wasn't flawless. It was a compromise agreement that fully satisfied no-one and had significant room for improvement from both sides concerning compliance, monitoring, verification and reporting.

Yet, it was WORKING.

To the best of anyone's ability to determine, Iran was complying with the provisions of the agreement. It was limiting uranium enrichment to only that needed for nuclear power, it wasn't exceeding centrifuge numbers and it was allowing IAEA inspectors access (both in person and electronically/remotely) for verification.

You could argue that Iran wasn't fully complying with the provision limiting heavy water storage (with excess being stored in Oman). But, that would have been a fairly small detail to rectify.
 
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Supreme Leader of the United States is pleased with the support. Citizens are 100% behind this week’s explanation for closing the Strait of Hormuz.
 
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Supreme Leader of the United States is pleased with the support. Citizens are 100% behind this week’s explanation for closing the Strait of Hormuz.
I think you may have formed an erroneous opinion from my three word missive.
That’s fine, I shan’t belabor the point though, as the post I had been referring to has been memory-holed.
 
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Mug the tax payers? How is that? By revealing the hundreds of millions stolen fron tax payers by democrats? That mugging?
If they found so much fraud, why weren't any charges filed?
 
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He's renamed the Straights of Hormuz the Straights of Trump?

There's so much more we need to rename to celebrate his splendiferousness!

Henceforth, let it be known that the Pacific Ocean is now Trump's Bathtub!

The Himalayas are Trump's Pillars that Hold Up The Sky.

The moon is Trump Sky Face.
(He sees you when you're sleeping.)

The earth is Trumpland!
(He knows when you're awake.
He knows if you've been mean-to-Trump or good-to-Trump so be good for goodness sake!)
 
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