The craziest thing is that Trump seems to thing he has a finished complete nuclear deal, when he has an agreement that they will work on getting one.
If they actually get a real deal, I would bet that they will use the Obama's deal's monitoring as a model. It genuinely was the most invasive, complete monitoring anywhere per the IAEA.
What Trump neglects is that Iran actually has less need to be at the point of creating nuclear weapons now as Trump's stupid war has demonstrated they have a simpler deterrent. They have shown they can hold the world hostage by closing the Strait of Hormus.
Oddly, the only thing that could make the strait less important is to really achieve a fossil free energy economy. However going on that direction is the goal of the Paris Climate agreement, another Obama, with most of the world, accomplishment Trump pulled out of.
As to the very respected Reed, he need not worry. Ignoring that he is correct, even if he were wrong, if inaccurate claims were illegal, Trump would have been charged with crimes nearly (or all) every day of the week for the last decade or more!
What this represents is Trump trying to write the narrative that everything he did (tearing up JCPOA, killing Salamani, bombing the nuclear sites (decimating his his words), the war he and Netanyahu started that assassinated their leaders, the resultant death and destruction and the economic chaos caused by closing the Strait) all led to a significantly better deal.
However, I am strongly convinced that history will see that JCPOA was the better deal that could have led to a more peaceful world if Trump were never elected.
I do hope the war ends, but Trump is like a little kid who broke his mother's vase and expects praise after he uses duct tape to "fix it". Even if he gets the exact same deal, American's reputation and influence will be tarnished.
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