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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jun 17, 2026, 09:28 PM Wednesday

How Trump's memo of understanding with Iran compares to the Obama nuclear deal

Washington — The memorandum of understanding that President Trump struck with Iran last weekend sets up a two-month sprint toward a longer-term deal over the fate of the Iranian nuclear program, eight years after Mr. Trump pulled out of an Obama-era nuclear agreement that he viewed as "disastrous" and "one-sided."

The Trump administration says its memorandum of understanding is far superior to the Obama administration's 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and will do much more to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists it will be different from the JCPOA because the U.S. will "make sure the military option is there," something Mr. Trump stressed.

The memorandum is not a final agreement like the JCPOA, which numbered hundreds of pages and was packed with technical details.

Rather, the new deal is a 14-point framework that extends the ceasefire in the U.S.-Iran war and sets the stage for talks on a permanent nuclear agreement. It doesn't include specifics on what will happen to Iran's enriched uranium or its nuclear program, leaving those details to be sorted out over the next 60 days.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trumps-memo-understanding-iran-compares-224507620.html

It's the concept of a deal.

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How Trump's memo of understanding with Iran compares to the Obama nuclear deal (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday OP
Even if it were not inferior on paper, which it is, the new so-called deal also suffers from the flaw RockRaven Wednesday #1
"Our proposal to end the war allows us to keep on fighting -- and we only pay Iran $300 billion!" struggle4progress Wednesday #2

RockRaven

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1. Even if it were not inferior on paper, which it is, the new so-called deal also suffers from the flaw
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 09:43 PM
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of being aspirational fiction -- unlike the real world, actually implemented, succeeding JCPOA (before The Dotard destroyed it purely out of racist egotistical spite, that is).

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