(07-01-2019, 10:24 PM)Predator Wrote:

(07-01-2019, 09:29 PM)mikesez Wrote: That article was filed under opinion.
The usually credible website allowed that man to publish with a byline explaining who pays him.
The organization named gets most of its money from Sheldon Adelson.

But I don't think either of us like to dismiss things just because people we've disagreed with in the past wrote them.

So I read the article to see if it made sense. And it did make sense, but in the wrong way.
The headline of the article says that the IAEA never certified Iran as being fully compliant with the treaty.
But as the article goes on to explain, the task of certifying was left to the seven individual member countries of the treaty. The IAEA consists of many more than just seven countries.
Each of the seven countries was authorized to have a certain number of representatives on the ground with certain instruments to observe certain things.
And then the President of each country was to get those seven reports and make his or her own decision about if the reports said that all parties were complying with the treaty.
You should remember this, because early in Donald Trump's term, he had to issue some of these declarations. Trump himself certified that Iran was complying with what was required by the treaty, before he ultimately decided to cancel US participation in the treaty altogether.
When Trump pulled out, he did not claim that Iran was violating the treaty. He just said that it was a bad treaty.

I don't recall Trump ever making a claim Iran was in compliance. Do you have a link supporting this?

(07-01-2019, 10:37 PM)Predator Wrote: Also getting out of the Iran deal was a campaign promise. Did he somehow have access to the intelligence on what the Iranians were doing before he even ran for office?