Frank wrote on Jun 17
th, 2025 at 5:45pm:

silly nonsense.
Iran is bombed because it cannot be allowed to have nukes. Why does Iran want nukes? To destroy Israel.
Why did Trump and the JCPOA? Because it gave too much leeway and too much economic largess to Iran.
Iran is an enemy of the US and the West, not a friend whose grievances we need to accommodate.
https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/security/sanctions/sanctions-reg...You bozos - you, gweggy, Bbwiyawn and your ilk - twist and misrepresent what other people post or say and then declare some sort of victory or time for white flags or 'admission' or some such jejune, primary-school level triumph. Pathetic, retarded childish idiocy.
Yes, and it's Trump's fault they almost have nukes. That's the point of this being on his shoulders!
You're sooo close to getting it. Shed the TDS and open your eyes Frannie.
They were complying, that's not up for debate. Iran was under the most intrusive inspections regime ever negotiated, and the IAEA confirmed again and again: Iran wasn't enriching uranium beyond permitted levels, nor was it developing nuclear weapons.
Trump unilaterally tore up the JCPOA in May 2018, despite every other signatory, the UK, France, Germany, Russia, China, and the EU, objecting. They didn't just grumble diplomatically. They went out of their way to publicly affirm that the deal was working, that Iran was complying, and that the withdrawal would sabotage years of diplomacy and destabilise the region.
And it did.
Trump offered no alternative, no plan B, no serious attempt to renegotiate. Just "maximum pressure", which in practice meant slapping Iran with punishing sanctions while demanding even more concessions. Iran, predictably, returned to enrichment after the US violated the deal and reimposed sanctions, exactly what experts warned would happen.
The result?
The US lost credibility not just with Iran but with its own allies.
Biden inherited a scorched diplomatic landscape.
Now we're watching the direct consequence of those choices by Trump, the escalations, the instability, the death of diplomacy.
And still, some try to sell the fiction that this wasn't Trump's doing.
But facts are facts. This is Trump's War.
He blew up a working deal, isolated America, and lit the fuse. You don't get to torch the bridge to peace, then complain there's no path left but war.