The Art of the Deal

     Don't let the mainstream media or the government breathlessly lie to you. There is no peace deal. Not really. Certain conditions have to be met. Vance said that before a deal is finalized, Iran has to modify its nuclear program, including oversight. But those who have seen this so-called deal say that no such precondition is in its language. This isn't a real, permanent peace deal, no actual ceasefire. It's a framework deal only. It's the deal before the deal.

     Essentially, Iran gets to keep every atom of its fissionable uranium. There will be no oversight, no weapons inspectors will be allowed in, no limits, even, as to how much they can enrich it.

     In order to make a viable nuclear warhead, a nation must enrich its uranium to at least 90%. When President Obama struck his historic deal with Iran, the ceiling for enrichment was a mere 3.67%.

     With this idiotic deal, there apparently is no limit, so now Trump is so obsessed with getting out of this war, he's no longer concerned about Iran getting a nuclear weapon, after all. Likewise, he's no longer talking about regime change or the pro-democracy protesters or their executions. And, after telling everyone the Iranians wouldn't get a wooden nickle from us... Well, let's talk about that for a minute.

     Remember when right wingers were screaming themselves hoarse (and some of them still are) about Obama "giving" Iran "billions of dollars"? Here's what President Obama did: He'd merely unfrozen Iran's assets, some $1.7 billion. In other words, he gave Iran back its own money as part of the deal.

     Under Trump, he's poised to give Iran $25 billion. That's approximately 15 times what they got out of Obama, which was, again. their money to begin with. This $25 billion is coming right out of the US Treasure. But that's just the rotten tip of the iceberg.

     Part of the deal also involves giving Iran $300,000,000,000 for reconstruction. To put that into perspective, that's 500 to 600% of Iran''s annual budget or 100% of its GDP for a year. Just to pay for all the shit that we'd bombed back to the Stone Age (including over 160 little schoolgirls). Israel got in on the action, also bombing Iran, but you don't see Israel coughing up a single shekel, do you?

     So what did we get in return? Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz... which was already open before we decided to bomb the shit out of Iran.

      This means that, just to get things back to a semblance where they were before, we'll have to pay Iran reparations costing us $300 billion, pay them an additional $25 billion, we have no limits on how much they can enrich their uranium and it only cost us 13 American lives. Oh, and Iran destroyed all of our Middle East bases.

     The art of the deal, ladies and gentlemen.

     And, of course, Trump will declare it better than any deal struck by either Biden or Obama and he'll strut around like the proverbial pigeon that knocks over the chess pieces and shits on the board and pretending it won.