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> You simply cannot “negotiate” with Iran here.

Likely not any more, not since Trump tore up US participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

One bad faith act destroyed concerted effort by multiple countries that would have seen greater Iranian integration into the world and the falling off of internal extreme influence.

Negotiation demonstrably worked, in the past, trust was destroyed .. who did that?

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You're focusing on the JCPOA and what is clouding your judgement here is you are forgetting that even with the JCPOA Iran was loading up on ballistic missiles and drones, arming militias in Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon, and once Russia invaded Ukraine they immediately started working with the Russians to evade sanctions and supplied them with military hardware to prosecute their war.

Are those the actions of a country that is really following the JCPOA? This is what a "negotiation" got us. The fact that Trump tore up the JCPOA isn't relevant because they shouldn't need to have an agreement to not build nuclear weapons in the first place! Is Vietnam or Brazil funding militias and loading up on military hardware and threatening to build a nuclear weapon unless they get some sort of special agreement to not do it?

It wasn't "one bad faith act" there never needed to be an act in the first place and you're ignoring all of Iran's actions that themselves were bad faith!


> even with the JCPOA Iran was

doing things that weren't covered by the JCPOA.

So, this doesn't negate the demonstrable point that negotiation with Iran actually works .. at least until one party breaks the agreement.

> Are those the actions of a country that is really following the JCPOA?

How many parties to JCPOA were also manufacturing and supplying arms? Certainly China, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S were.

Were Germany and France also doing the same?

> all of Iran's actions that themselves were bad faith!

Yeah .. nah. (See above).




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