What torching Iran deal says about US commitment to nuclear security
President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal flies in the face of hundreds of inspections that showed Iran was meeting its end of the bargain.
It’s a move that many leaders in the international community opposed, including all other parties to the deal – France, Germany, the U.K., Russia and China. Trump’s decision has generated a firestorm of commentary about what may come next.
But what stands out to me as a researcher on energy policy and nuclear policy, is what it says about the agency that carried out the inspections – the International Atomic Energy Agency – and its mission.
Inspections in Iran
In July 2015, after the Iran deal was signed, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution that requested the IAEA carry out the monitoring and verifying of Iran’s compliance with its nuclear commitments. Between January 2016 and February 2018, the agency conducted more than 400 site visits and dozens of unannounced, or “snap” inspections. It installed cameras and employed satellites to perform surveillance work.
The visits covered more than 190 buildings, and the agency’s investigations used hundreds of thousands of images. From this extensive activity, the IAEA repeatedly declared, up through the most recent director’s report of March 2018, that Iran was in compliance.
None of this is affected in the least by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent presentation about Iran’s nuclear program, which was based on information dating from well before the Iran deal was even conceived.
And yet, Trump referenced the Israeli intelligence documents as “definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie,” in his speech announcing the U.S. was leaving the agreement.
More: http://theconversation.com/what-torching-iran-deal-says-about-us-commitment-to-nuclear-security-96326
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We already know that he has no knowledge of history. Does he even know how WWII ended?? Though people must still have been talking about it when he was growing up... 
There wouldn't be anything left...
Threats from the USSR were what the Cold War was all about. If he went through Duck & Cover, what did he think that was all about?? And that's what Putin wants, a return to the days of the USSR. 
My take on him is that he saw his run for POTUS as just his latest moneymaking scheme - and given what he and his entire extended family have cost the taxpayers, not to mention his giving "jobs" to his extended family and greedy friends, I still think that's all he's in this for. He obviously has no intention of working to help this country and our allies or to improve the lives of Americans, which is what the presidency has always been about. 
