Memes Meet Reality

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was reached in July 2015, between the P5 (US, UK, France, Russia, Germany) and Iran.

It was implemented on January 16, 2016. On that day, and per the terms of the deal, the Obama administration air lifted $400M in Swiss Francs and Euros, to Iran. This was followed by some additional cash shipments for a total of $1.7B.

On the same day, Iran also released 4 US prisoners. The money was the principal and interest on money Iran paid for future arms shipments that the US held after the Iran revolution in the late 1970s.

The US entered negotiations for the JCPOA after Syria, under pressure from Iran and Russia, destroyed its entire stockpile of Binay Sarin, which was a true weapon of mass destruction, capable of annihilating Israel.

How did we know that Assad did it? Because our military handled the job, and the Syrian in charge of the program was on the CIA payroll and was getting to be a pain in the ass, because he had multiple wives, who loved to ship in international destinations (he was eventually caught and executed by the Syrians.

Iran was compliant with the JCPOA which prevented it from developing nuclear weapons, until Trump cancelled it during his first term.

But let's talk about the missiles Trump is dropping on Iran. It cost us about $200B so far, and it's going to cost $300B additional.

Was the $1.7B we owed Iran worth returning, to prevent Iran from having nukes worth it? Consider all the lives, destruction of the world economy and worldwide anxiety that Trump's war is costing.

LeopoldBloom · M

Another example of Trump doing a bad job in attempting to fix a problem he created. Although, the JCPOA only addressed nukes, not proxies like Hezbollah.

Northwest · M

@LeopoldBloom

JCPOA only addressed nukes, not proxies like Hezbollah.

A couple of things JCOPA did not address, by design:

1. Ballistic missiles programs

2. Hezbollah, Houthis, Syria, Iraq Brigades

JCOPA went into effect January 16, 2016, and Trump office January 20, 2017 and dismantled it it along with any work that was done toward 1 & 2. Both of these goals were within reach because the Europeans, Russia included were key players in Iran's programs. Something Trump could have addressed given how close he is to Putin.

To wait until all this to be resolved before JCOPA can go into effect would have significantly delayed it as the "proxies" had their own grievances that needed addressing.