Here is President Obama’s Iran deal vs. Trump’s Iran ceasefire.
Under President Obama:
•The Strait of Hormuz was open because it was never closed.
•Limitations were placed on Iran’s uranium enrichment.
•Iran agreed not to to make nuclear weapons.
•International inspectors were permitted into Iran to confirm full compliance.
Under Trump’s ceasefire:
•The Strait of Hormuz will open but under direct Iranian control, possibly with a $2 million fee extracted from each vessel passing through. That toll would be split between Iran and Oman. The Strait was only closed because Trump started his war.
•Iran does not have to guarantee a limit on uranium enrichment.
•Iran does not guarantee that it will never develop nuclear weapons and there will be no international inspectors.
And those are just the top line items for Trump’s ceasefire. He also stated that Iran’s “10 point proposal” is a “workable basis on which to negotiate.”
If Trump ratifies that proposal he will have to:
•Lift all primary and secondary sanctions on Iran.
•Withdraw the U.S. military entirely from the Middle East.
•End all attacks on Iran and its allies.
•Release frozen Iranian assets.
Any way you analyze this ceasefire, it amounts to a massive victory for Iran. They weathered the illegal attacks, the threats of nuclear genocide, and emerged on the other side grinning.
To point out the obvious here, Obama accomplished far more than Trump — all without a bloodshed. Obama didn’t blow up a school full of little girls, commit mass war crimes against the Iranian people, or cause the deaths of American soldiers in a war of aggression.
Only one of these men understands the art of the deal and he never wrote a book about it.
There’s no agreement between President Donald Trump and the Iranian Government.
What is there is a working arrangement to be used as a basis for the deal.
15 points from the USA government and 10 points from Iran.
You are RIGHT DEAR. In fact Trump has DONE MORE than Obama. He took courage to attack Iranians who had become BIG headed and they WILL NEVER DEVELOP A NUCLEAR WEAPON. They cried like babies due to bombs.
Thumbs up to Trump
In situations like this, what we are seeing and hearing is but a tip of the iceberg. The full impact of the war will be revealed much later.
In Afghanistan, the US claimed victory after the Russians were forced to retreat by the US sponsored Taliban (including Osama Bin Laden). The same US supported Osama planned the September 11, 2001 destruction of the world trade centre resulting in the deaths of over 3,000 Americans.
The full impact of this insane war will be seen in the years to come. Those from the middle east have long memories and the killing of almost all the original Iranian leadership, including Ayatollah Khamenei, is not something to be dismissed with a wave of the hand.
Wa sosa boyi. What an intelligent analysis. hats off to you.