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There's nothing magical about 20%. Iran breached the 3.67% limit set by the JCPOA in 2019.
While the sanctions relief money was supposed to be spent on economic relief, there is no clear indication on how Iran spent the money.
We are dealing with terrorists here, not schoolyard bullies.
Well, we've made some progress. You now acknowledge the money returned to them was in fact their money.
I never said it wasn’t. I said it was being held as part of the sanctions that had been imposed on Iran. Obviously that makes it their money.
Myth 6: “The IAEA repeatedly affirmed that it saw no violations of the deal by Iran prior to Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA.”
Reality: Iran blindfolded the IAEA by strictly limiting where it can inspect.
Iran’s violations of its obligations under both the JCPOA and the NPT are well documented. They include the assembly and concealment of the nuclear archive and the possession of undeclared, unexplained nuclear materials. Many of these violations have taken place in locations that Iran concealed from the IAEA, attempted to sanitize before inspection, or prevented the IAEA from inspecting altogether. The IAEA cannot document violations in places it cannot see or access.
Before, during, and after Iran’s “compliance” with the JCPOA, the IAEA reported that, because of Tehran’s refusal to cooperate regarding undeclared nuclear activities and materials, the agency cannot provide assurances that the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful.
Article is from 2022
There has been a lot of speculation that the money was used for military purposes because it was certainly not used for its intended purpose. Economic relief. The point is, though, they got what they wanted out of the deal, there was no reason to pull out of it.
CFR. Show me where we targeted hotels and schools and mosques and synagogues and hospitals.
No, the US reinstated sanctions in 2018. The deal was ripped up by Trump.
Iran received $101.7 Billion from the US under JCPOA and the other bank settlement under Obama. Trump put other sanctions in place, but they received the money under Obama.
Still JCPOA was mainly about sanction relief. When Trump put the sanctions back, he ripped up the deal. No, Iran received 1.7 billion from the US (you could argue that the US had created that debt by their own actions). As I understand it the US took the money for delivering equipment to Iran, but did not deliver the goods or made a speedy reimbursement.
Hello! Rising anti-Semitism is a sign of the End Times, but I believe so is the hypocrisy. The same folks who will hold protests and scream on loud speakers about Israel don't seem to be concerned about the genocide of Christians in Nigeria. It seems to be pure anti-Semitism. God Bless.
The $1.7 Billion Iran received was from a pre-1979 weapons deal that was ordered by the Shah but never fulfilled. The amount of that deal was $400M, the rest was interest on that money. That money was returned to guarantee the release of the hostages Iran was holding.
The deal was a UN deal, with the rest of the 5 nation security council supporting it. The US can place sanctions on a country unilaterally, but there were other nations who in the EU that were still abiding by the deal till Iran pulled out.
