{"id":14997,"date":"2015-04-03T13:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T20:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14997"},"modified":"2015-04-03T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T20:22:56","slug":"iran-deal-historic-an-understatement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/iran-deal-historic-an-understatement\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Deal: Historic an Understatement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To delay Iran\u2019s acquisition of nuclear weapons, I have been expecting a deal that gives up a lot more than I\u2019d like to see, and was prepared to support such a deal, because the other two alternatives to a negotiated settlement would leave us facing an Iran that not only possess nuclear weapons sooner, but also, would be more hostile toward the US.  The deal in the works is actually far better than anything I had imagined.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0403IranDeal\"Iran and the United States, along with five other world powers, announced on Thursday a surprisingly specific and comprehensive understanding on limiting Tehran\u2019s nuclear program<\/a> for the next 15 years, though they left several specific issues to a final agreement in June.<\/p>\n

After two years of negotiations, capped by eight tumultuous days and nights of talks that appeared on the brink of breakdown several times, Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, announced the plan, which, if carried out, would keep Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities open under strict production limits, and which holds the potential of reordering America\u2019s relationship with a country that has been an avowed adversary for 35 years.<\/p>\n

President Obama, for whom remaking the American relationship with Iran has been a central objective since his 2008 campaign, stepped into the Rose Garden moments later to celebrate what he called \u201ca historic understanding with Iran.\u201d He warned Republicans in Congress that if they tried to impose new sanctions to undermine the effort, the United States would be blamed for a diplomatic failure\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If you don’t already know and understand the details, Rachel Maddow<\/a> brings it down to a level that a child could understand. Republicans, however, seem to lack that degree of sophistication.<\/font><\/p>\n