Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

Vietor said Vance had it backwards: the JCPOA shipped Iran's stockpile abroad, while the new deal keeps it in-country.

“Under the JCPOA, they shipped out 97% of their stockpile. They went to Russia where they disposed of it”

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Vietor urged Democrats to defend the JCPOA as better than Trump's deal, citing the removal of Iran's stockpile and UN Security Council backing.

“I want Democrats to just stand up and support the JCPOA and say that it was better”

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Vietor argues Trump will at best get a deal similar to the JCPOA that he could have obtained without war.

“it sounds like Trump is maybe at best going to get a similar deal after launching this disastrous war that he could have gotten if he just tried to renegotiate”

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Vietor notes Iran's highly enriched uranium was produced after Trump exited the JCPOA, making it a problem Trump created.

“all of that material was enriched after Trump pulled out of the JCPOA. So it's a problem he created and now is probably not going to solve”

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Favreau argues Iran's enriched uranium stockpile exists only because Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.

“There wouldn't even be more enriched uranium to be talking about if Trump hadn't gotten us out of the Iran deal”

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Favreau argues Trump cannot now obtain a deal as good as Obama's Iran deal because Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz.

“I think it's pretty clear now that there's no way he gets a deal that's better or even the same as the Iran deal”

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Lovett argued the U.S. is worse off than before the Iran war and than under the JCPOA.

“We are worse off than we were before the war started. And we are worse off than we were when there was the JCPOA in place”

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Cooke argues that an Obama-style deal combined with destroyed nuclear facilities leaves the U.S. better off than an Obama-style deal alone.

“an Obama style Iran deal, plus having taken out their nuclear facilities is better than just an Obama style Iran deal”

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Greenwald argued the JCPOA had kept Iran's enrichment low and that Iran only enriched to 60 percent after Trump withdrew.

“They only started enriching at 60 percent after Trump withdrew from the deal”

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