re: Ok its time to start dropping bombs again on Iran.

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Which will accomplish nothing but death and debt. We're not winning this one, neo-cons. It's not like it wasn't predictable. But I guess your bloodlust gets sated some.

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the murderous regime that killed hundreds of marines and has exported terrorism all across the globe. But muh gas prices.

POTUS Trump knows exactly what he is doing. Even the timing is setting up perfectly.

You can never completely eliminate an ideology.
New York city has a communist mayor.
Just a matter of time until we see a Mullah Mayor.
Just get the dust and move forward.

The market has been great. Just relax.

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The market has been great. Just relax.

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All I really care about if we are honest. My investments are up 22% this quarter

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if they complete enrichment.

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This is actually a very important topic.

Intelligence had long indicated last year that the facilities capable of enriching to weapons grade was Fordow, the underground facility and Natanz (sp?), while another was capable of some sort of finishing process/conversion. I think these were the ones that the U.S. targeted.

Iran actually complied with snap inspections (24 hour or less notice) under JCPOA according to the IAEA at these locations. The ‘24 day notice’ applied to other facilities if it was thought that there was suspicious activity. These two conditions are often conflated.

The IAEA did not detect unusual radiation at these other facilities. Experts argued for and against that the 24 day period was not enough time to ‘scrub’ the material. It is supposed that this was one of the main reasons that the President was keen to withdraw from JCPOA (along with sunset clauses for compliance).

Limited inspections after the withdrawal continued (non compliance) and Iran basically withdrew shortly after the President lost re-election and eventually ceased all inspections (I think). The IAEA lost track of how much uranium they had and exact levels of enrichment. The military actions last summer may have been justified but an interesting fact is that the main intelligence (that actually contradicted US intelligence) presented by IAEA (and used by Israel) was an AI produced document that gave a probability assessment, not direct knowledge.

If the third facility was rendered inoperable last year or in this year’s war and the other two facilities’ centrifuges were rendered inoperable, then they don’t have the capabilities that have been mentioned and there is also no evidence that they have a delivery system that is capable of the required payload.

Sorry for the essay, but in my opinion this makes the President’s statement of ‘obliterated’ last summer a very pivotal and probably the most consequential statement as it pertains to the present state of events.