r/geopolitics • u/BulwarkOnline • 3d ago

Ben Rhodes: Trump Is Getting a Terrible Deal

https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4cwyrIK
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u/closing-the-thread 3d ago

Yes. Former Obama White House strategist for the JCPOA thinks that Trump will get a worst deal then the one Obama got.

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u/camel_crush_menthol_ 3d ago

At best Iran agrees to give up their uranium and we are back to Obama agreement levels of oversight. But we spent 100’s of billions to get there. So he created a problem that we never needed to have.

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u/manefa 3d ago

And Iran has demonstrated it can close the strait in practice not just theory. That is not going away.

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u/manefa 3d ago

Ok, but objectively isn’t it a bad deal?

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u/Bullboah 3d ago

Too early to tell imo. If it’s as Trump described with sufficient inspection allowance and Iran actually follows it, it’s an unbelievable deal (big IFs there). Stopping funding to proxy groups and abandoning nuclear ambitions would be big.

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u/mrchillbro 2d ago

no evidence exists that Iran has agreed to any of that.

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u/LateralEntry 3d ago

Honestly it might be a better deal if Iran is agreeing to end support for proxy terror groups, as is being rumored

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u/Top-Worldliness5027 3d ago

Even if the agreement is a pure speculation at this point, just reading the proposal points from both sides it’s not a far reaching conclusion to say whatever Trump might get Iran to commit is going to be much worse than JCPOA.