Brian Stern
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And on something this dangerous, dishonesty is not a minor sin here.
This is how you get to catastrophe with a smile on your face.
Obama's deal was built on a single enormous concession.
Iran could keep all of the machinery.
It could keep all of the know-how.
It could keep the enrichment program.
But we have limits.
3.7% enrichment.
That's it.
300 kilograms.
That's it.
Okay.
So none of the plants were erased or destroyed or reduced or demolished, none of it, okay?
And sanctions were lifted in exchange for restraint and monitoring.
That was the architecture.
Now, everyone can argue whether it bought us time or sold out the future.
We can argue about that.
But let's at least call it by its proper name.
It was a deal that accepted an Iranian nuclear program and then tried to place it in a box.
That's not what Trump is doing.