Iran nuclear deal

[grodnoking]

Now releasing their own money to get our people back IMHO is a good thing!!!

What if releasing the money will most likely cause more than 4 people to die?

[CountValentine]

What if releasing the money will most likely cause more than 4 people to die?

We can play what if until the cows come home.

[zh cohen]

Are you confusing ceasing ones assets and freezing someone's assets?

No. This is money that the current regime would (and should) have never seen without radically changing their approach. Giving it to them in exchange for releasing hostages is wrong especially since we know that taking foreigners as hostages in order to have leverage is their MO.

[BP16]

We can play what if until the cows come home.

With Iran its not if its when.

[CountValentine]

No. This is money that the current regime would (and should) have never seen without radically changing their approach. Giving it to them in exchange for releasing hostages is wrong especially since we know that taking foreigners as hostages in order to have leverage is their MO.

Were these assets that were frozen or seized?

[zh cohen]

Were these assets that were frozen or seized?

According to this article (whose veracity I know nothing about) it is money that was given to them on the condition that they only use it "to buy humanitarian goods from Iraq." So it was never their money.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/03/07/Iran-says-US-approved-release-of-frozen-Iranian-assets-in-Iraq

[CountValentine]

According to this article (whose veracity I know nothing about) it is money that was given to them on the condition that they only use it "to buy humanitarian goods from Iraq." So it was never their money.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/03/07/Iran-says-US-approved-release-of-frozen-Iranian-assets-in-Iraq

I don't know why you have to twist everything into a pretzel instead of just answering the question. Here is the first line of the article you linked: An Iranian trade official said Friday the US green-lit the release of Iranian funds that have been frozen in Iraq due to US sanctions.

Then we have this: US sanctions have prevented Iran from accessing tens of billions of its assets in foreign banks.

Now lets have your pretzel response. 

[Kobe Bryant]

Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the highest-ranking Iranian intelligence official in charge of countering Israeli spies in Iran was himself an agent of Israel. He did not name anyone nor specify the time period in question.

Ahmadinejad attributed the success of Israel's intelligence operations in Iran to the high level of Tel Aviv's influence and infiltration in the Iranian intelligence and security agencies.

The former president's comments were published after former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed details of Israeli operations in Iran in an interview on Thursday. He implicitly acknowledged that Israeli spies were involved in two explosions in the Iranian uranium enrichment facility in Nantanz, and that Israel has been closely monitoring nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh's moves for a long time before killing him in November 2020.

Referring to the theft of thousands of Iranian secret nuclear document in February 2018 from a warehouse near Tehran, Cohen said more than 20 Mossad agents were involved in the operation. He said the agents were not Israelis, adding that all of them are alive and some of them have already left Iran.

[Kobe Bryant]

Iran is 10 weeks away from producing fissile material to develop a nuclear bomb, the Israeli defense minister Gantz tells foreign ambassadors.

[yelped]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1499018795926626305

Wow!!! Truly sickening! Unbelievable how unconcerned about human rights this Robert Malley is.

[AsherO]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1499018795926626305

Wow!!! Truly sickening! Unbelievable how unconcerned about human rights this Robert Malley is.

All while the media is distracted with Ukraine.

This is like NYC’s “bail reform” for the Iranians. Tragic, it could take decades to undo such idiocy.

[Kobe Bryant]

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu slamed the government for its purported “silence” in the face of the Iran nuclear talks that are said to be nearing their conclusion in Vienna.

"In the Bennett-Gantz-Lapid government there is only weakness, weakness and more weakness,” claims Netanyahu in a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset.

In an implied criticism of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s involvement in potentially brokering Ukraine-Russia talks, Netanyahu says that the burgeoning Iran deal is “what the government must be dealing with now.”

[CountValentine]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-s-ally-russia-may-spoil-nuclear-talks-to-keep-oil-price-high/ar-AAUJxmA?ocid=msedgntp

[yelped]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-s-ally-russia-may-spoil-nuclear-talks-to-keep-oil-price-high/ar-AAUJxmA?ocid=msedgntp

Shame that Russia has to be the one to stop it and for that reason.

What a blot of shame on the western world.

[CountValentine]

Most believe the western world is doing the right thing.
I posted in the other thread why it will take Iran longer to get nukes with the agreement.
The reports are the breakout time is now less since the US voided the agreement.

[justaregularguy]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-s-ally-russia-may-spoil-nuclear-talks-to-keep-oil-price-high/ar-AAUJxmA?ocid=msedgntp

very interesting twist

[aygart]

Most believe the western world is doing the right thing.
I posted in the other thread why it will take Iran longer to get nukes with the agreement.
The reports are the breakout time is now less since the US voided the agreement.

What about under the agreement? Either way how do we know what they did?

I don't know enough about the north gritty of it so my actual opinions here will be limited.

Using only that time period without a reference point is cherry picked data.

[CountValentine]

Using only that time period without a reference point is cherry picked data.

That is all we have. Now if we get an agreement we can see where there enrichment goes, up or down.

[yelped]

https://worldisraelnews.com/irgc-plot-to-assassinate-former-top-u-s-officials-revealed/

@CountValentine Seems like the Justice Department under Biden is doing the same as under Obama. Not prosecuting Iran in order to avoid the deal falling through. Unbelievable.

[aygart]

That is all we have. Now if we get an agreement we can see where there enrichment goes, up or down.

Rated 5 pretzels. What happened under the original agreement and how do we know? I don't know the answer to these questions so it can go either way