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To prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. I get America-bad or whatever, but even the IAEA has made many statements that Iran has not been compliant for years, is fabricating and outright omitting data, does not permit previously agreed upon inspections, and is stockpiling materials to make nuclear bombs.
Now, is that really the reason we got involve? Israel struck first. So probably not. But it is definitely a reason, and a valid one at that. Any way one slices it, a fundamentalist religious state should never be allowed to have nuclear weapons. The world is bad enough as it is with the fundamentalist religious who do have them already.
Iran has been "one week away from nuclear weapons" for 30 years. They should write a children's book about it, "the fascist ethnostate who cried nuke".
Not compliant with what...? The deal to comply with was scrapped by the US in 2018.
*Trump
not the US. even Iran can make the distinction, so can you.
Who is he president of again?
I don't think the Brits have any ground to stand on when it comes to upholding agreements... do I hold it against all of Brittan? no, I call out the leader that was responsible at the time. why? just because your leader did the thing doesn't damn the whole country.
I don't see the issue with offhand referring to agreements between nations, by using the titles of the nations involved. Whether the US likes it or not, the US did pull out of that agreement.
To be clear, when Starmer runs around doing his latest shit thing that he does... I don't rush to correct people who say that Britain is doing shit things. What he's doing represents me, whether I like it or not.
"Brittan" O.o
you know...the Brittney Isle's!
My personal hot take: the middle east will be much more peaceful when Iran has nuclear weapons.
I trust them more than Israel with them. I also would say that Israel is a fundamentalist religious state with nuclear weapons, hell so is Pakistan and I'd go so far as to say what has kept the conflict between Pakistan and India from exploding into even worse violence and outright war is that they both have nukes.
After this debacle I would be surprised if Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons in a decade or less.