| ▲ | cjbgkagh 9 hours ago |
| I think this 10 point plan drops the need for US to pay reparations instead relying on transit fees which will be split with Oman. Missiles are still flying so it’s hard to say who has really agreed to what. I’ve heard rumors that Iran has agreed to dilute its highly enriched uranium so maybe the US could count that as a win. Given they’ve demonstrated sufficient conventional deterrence they may feel that they don’t need the nukes, especially if they can get some sort of Chinese backed security guarantee. But that might be a trial balloon or wishful thinking. |
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| ▲ | defrost 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| IIRC they had already agreed to dilute the HEU during the negotiations ongoing at the time Trump launched the most recent war / not war / excursion. |
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| ▲ | cjbgkagh 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, the US overplayed its hand and is in a weak bargaining position and will likely have to accept less than what it could have had. Now with TACO Tuesday who could take his maximalist carpet nuking threats seriously anymore. I hope to be wrong but I doubt the ceasefire holds. | |
| ▲ | outside1234 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Under Obama's plan they agreed to reduce its Uranium 97% and keep it well under weapons grade and got $2B for the assets that were seized after the revolution. Here they stand to make $100B a year on tolling the gulf and get to keep their weapons grade Uranium that they stockpiled after Trump pulled us out of that agreement. Just so much winning | | |
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| ▲ | ajross 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| FWIW, money is the easiest term to agree to. We have lots and lots. I agree, it will never be called "reparations", but you can trivially structure it in a zillion ways that just look like foreign aid or debt forgiveness or whatever. The WHO forgives some loans or the UN agrees to build some infrastructure, and we coincidentally make a new fund of about the same size, etc... |
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| ▲ | cjbgkagh 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think it’s less about the money and more about a formal declaration who won the conflict. The loser sues for peace / pays reparations. | | |
| ▲ | swat535 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Iran and US can each declare "victory". TRUMP can say he achieved his objectives, IRAN can say it "won". What IRAN is really after is lifting the sanctions and ensuring that Israel will not attack again randomly in 2 months. The problem is that Israel is not going to be happy about this, so I full expect another round of escalation eventually. The only way to deter this is Nuclear Weapons unfortunately and IRAN very well understood this. No matter what the agreement says, we can be assured Israel will break it, as it has done time and time again. Why would this round be different? |
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| ▲ | mikehotel 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What if Iran refuses payment in USD? For reparations, tolls, or for future sale of oil? |
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