Back in 2015, Iran and the international community
Iran had been working on a nuclear program
. It’s said it wants to create nuclear energy for peaceful purposes (think: electricity). But the US, EU, UN and others think it wants to build a nuclear weapon. To try and stop that from happening, they hit Iran with
Because what happens in Iran does not stay in Iran. The country
that’ve been in the headlines in recent years (think: Hezbollah, Hamas). Israelis are worried because not only have these groups pledged Israel’s destruction, Iran’s leaders have also said Israel should be
Plus, the West thought Iran had been going Walter White on them by
In late 2013, Iran and a crew of countries – the US, Germany, the UK, France, China, Russia – agreed to a temporary nuclear deal while they worked out a more permanent solution. Those talks got extended
before they finally
Iran agreed to
severely scale back its stockpile of uranium
Iran...
We really don’t know what all the fuss is about.
Israel...
Has everyone lost their minds? Before the deal was in place, Israeli PM Netanyahu felt so strongly that he controversially
came to the US to tell Congress
that the deal is bad news. Because, reminder, Israel and Iran have a ‘hate-hate’ relationship. Israel says Iran's nuclear goal has not been peaceful – and that it has
Saudi Arabia...
Since Iran is our least favorite neighbor in the area, we have some
raised over this nuclear program. We think the deal will give Iran the economic wiggle room to focus on the instability in the region. Where we’re
for influence. And if Iran gets nuclear weapons,
Russia…
We have
a deal to build nuclear reactors
The Obama Administration…
Iran’s nuclear program needs a bouncer to watch over things. If Iran decided to go rogue – which would mean cheating on its end of the deal – the US
The GOP…
If you give Iran a nuclear inch, it will make a weapon. We
, and we think this is a bad deal. So bad that we
Fast forward to President Trump. He's been very much
He 'decertified' the deal back in 2017. Which gave Congress 60 days to decide whether to re-impose sanctions on Iran and effectively end the deal. It didn’t do anything. So after a few months Trump said,
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