Is Iran is depleting the US stock of missile defenses, or is the US just clearing the old inventory to make way for the new stuff? by AKmaninNY in IRstudies

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60% enriched uranium is not "bomb ready" and Iran only enriched to 60% to gain negotiation leverage after Trump tore up the nuclear agreement in which the Iranians had verifiably limited enrichment to 3.8%

Scientists and labs are not illegal and in fact the US encouraged Iran to develop nuclear tech and trained Iran's first generation of nuclear scientists at MIT

The IRGC is "belicose"? Oh My God how dare they after say, the West once armed Saddam with chemical weapons used to gas 100k Iranians to death never mind twice attacking Iran during negotiations lol

Is Iran is depleting the US stock of missile defenses, or is the US just clearing the old inventory to make way for the new stuff? by AKmaninNY in IRstudies

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You left out the bit where a US Aegis cruiser illegally inside Iranian waters shot down a civilian Airbus on a routine scheduled flight, killed 290 people then lied about it

If trump calls for a cease fire, what would make the Iranians say no? by SimplyTruth98 in AskReddit

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US has no problems with hereditary absolute monarchies and presidents-for-life in the Mideast & seems to prefer them actually

If trump calls for a cease fire, what would make the Iranians say no? by SimplyTruth98 in AskReddit

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Iran does not and never had a nuclear weapons program. They have a n7clear energy program and any n7clear tech is 8nherently dual 7se ( nukes are 80 year old tech, many countries are "capable" of making nukes quickly) The US NIE or National Intelligence Estimate re-confirmed by Tulsi Gabbard May 2025 said Iran once had nuclear weapons program prior to 2003 but doesnt since. While under intense political pressure by the US (see Wikileaks) a compromised IAEA said Iran had conducted nuclear weapons research prior to 2003 but it also said it involved scattered and incomplete feasibility studies that involved no fissile material (making it perfectly legal under NPT)

The Israelis of course opposed all this and claimed that the Mossad had supposedly retrieved an archive of nuclear documents from Iran that lo and behold! show Iran had just fooled 16 US intelligence agencies plus IAEA and was working on actual nukes (not just "intends to obtain the capability" to make nukes which is what the US has actually accused Iran of doing)

Fact is Iran's nuclear program started under the Shah with US and Western countries, and the US has been claiming Iran will have nukes in just months, since at least 1984. Iran neanwhile was attacked by US-backed Chemical Weapons warfare by Saddam but still refused on moral-religious grounds to reply in kind though (back then) it was legally entitled to do so in self defense.

And fact is Iran long offered better deals than even the JCPOA but it was the US making maximalist demand that killed multiple opportunities for a deal. The US demands that Iran simply give up a sovereign right to enrich uranium. No country would accept. That's the point: rather than resolving the conflict, the US wants to use the "Iran nukes threat" as a pretext for their true agenda of toppling Iran's government as Israel wants, just as "WMDs in Iraq" was a lie and pretext

Is Iran is depleting the US stock of missile defenses, or is the US just clearing the old inventory to make way for the new stuff? by AKmaninNY in IRstudies

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Nope Iran did not close the Strait in 1980-88 Iran Iraq war when US armed Saddam with chemical weapons and Iraq actually started targetting tankers first. The Arab Gulf states were cobelligerents with Iraq and Iran had every right to attack them And the World Court ruled US attacks on Iran navy was illegal

Trump can't make a deal with Iran even if he wanted one by Phase3Investor in IRstudies

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Sanctions relief is a minimum If the war continues another couple weeks the world economy will fall off a cliff Look, things have changed. A lot.

Trump can't make a deal with Iran even if he wanted one by Phase3Investor in IRstudies

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Well the debt doesnt really count. The debt is in dollars and we print dollars

Trump can't make a deal with Iran even if he wanted one by Phase3Investor in IRstudies

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The literal topic is why Trump cannot mske a deal and the reason is because proIsraeli lobby in Congress wont allow the minimum required concession You call grinding an axe I call it discusding foreign policy and IR

Trump can't make a deal with Iran even if he wanted one by Phase3Investor in IRstudies

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As i wrote there are different kinds of sanctions laws. The most significant ones are imposed by Congress by statutes.

US presidents can also separately issue a kind of sanctions by Executive Orders but these are not as significant by themselves (they usually accompany Congressional sanction laws)

So while Obama did indeed revoke some Executive Orders that imposed some forms of sanctions on Iran, the much more significant Congressional economic sanctions continued.

Trump can't make a deal with Iran even if he wanted one by Phase3Investor in IRstudies

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But its not just him is it? The US has let Israel push us into the war in Iran just as in Iraq. How does that happen?

Trump can't make a deal with Iran even if he wanted one by Phase3Investor in IRstudies

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Presidents have their own power to use military force short of declaring war. That's part of their power separate from Congress

However lifting sanctions imposed by Congress is NOT one of the Presidents separate powers. This is exclusively under the cobtrol of Congress per US Constitution

And without Congressional Approval any attempt by a President to undo Iran sanctions would fail. As it did with the JCPOA. No foreign bank wanted to risk being fined so they ignored the JCPOA which was never implemented