Obama Breaks His Silence and Challenges Trump's Iran Deal
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Former President Obama is finally surfacing and he is torching Donald Trump's horrible deal with Iran, which is far weaker than Obama's JCPOA, which for the past 15 to 20 years, Donald Trump has been attacking the JCPOA. He's been mocking Obama for it. But at the end of the day, Donald Trump just did a JCPOA a C-minus version of the JCPOA, where Trump gave Iran more money, Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and Donald Trump weakened the United States standing, not just in the Middle East, but across the entire world as a result of Donald Trump's weakness. Now, let me be very clear. My own view is I'm glad that there's a deal and that the United States is going to hopefully be out of We can never trust anything that Donald Trump says or does, so we'll see what happens.
But we should never have been involved in this unlawful and catastrophic war with Netanyahu in the first place. But for Donald Trump, who said that I'm only going to get total surrender Trump basically doing total surrender. I'm gonna do a deal so much better than Obama's. You see, when you actually step into the arena and you're confronted by complex issues, it's not always all that easy. It's easy to tear deals apart and to criticize and attack, But actually doing and balancing different issues and different constituencies and stakeholders isn't a very easy thing. So as you all know, I'll show you what Obama said in a moment. You had Donald Trump who said, we're doing this deal with Iran. We've got the deal.
There's going to be allegedly a signing in Geneva with MB Ghalibaf, Iran's parliament leader, who used to be one of the big military leaders there as well. and JD Vance, apparently that's going to happen in Geneva. Donald Trump is apparently going to be giving Iran billions and billions of dollars, $24 billion in different tranches, and then potentially $300 billion in development monies for the Middle East, up to $300 billion. Also, Donald Trump's like, we're going to get all the nuclear dust and all the material. No, What Donald Trump actually told the New York Times is that Iran will be permitted to enrich at low levels, not that all the material is going to be taken away. He said, it's at a level that can never be used by the Iran military, Donald Trump said.
What is Obama's perspective on Trump's Iran deal?
But yeah, that's what was in the JCPOA. But the JCPOA had a multilateral inspection mechanism. This kind of is like you're going to have to trust Iran to do it. So now let me show you what Obama said. I'll also show you another kind of key moment of Obama versus Donald Trump. And I want to remind you of what Obama said back on May 8th, 2018, when Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA. And let's bring this all together, shall we? So here's what Donald Trump, well, first I'll show you what former President Obama said, then we'll go into what Trump was saying. Here's what former President Obama told ABC about, you know, how all of this is a reminder that, you know, foreign policy problems can be complex and this idea that we can just bomb our way out of things.
you know, isn't always, you know, the right answer. It may seem enticing to some people, but you have to think through the different levels of consequences. So, here's what Obama said. Let's play it.
It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place and had worked for a long stretch of time before we, the United States, pulled out of it. So I'm hopeful that bombing stops and ordinary people are no longer suffering as a consequence of the war. then in retrospect it's a reminder that on a lot of difficult foreign policy problems the notion that we can just bully our way or bomb our way to solutions may sometimes seem appealing
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