AP:
As President Donald Trump tells it, Iran would be a collapsed state by now if only the Obama administration had refused the 2015 deal that eased economic sanctions in return for a freeze on Iranian nuclear development. This starved-into-submission scenario, however, doesn't fit with the circumstances of that time.
Here's a look at Trump's statement on the subject:
TRUMP, on why the U.S. under President Barack Obama should not have agreed to the Iran nuclear deal: "I think they would have failed, totally failed within six months. We gave them a lifeline and we not only gave them a lifeline, we gave them wealth and prosperity. And we also gave them an ability to continue with terror and with all of the things they've been doing." — Statement in Jerusalem on Monday, standing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
THE FACTS: What would have happened absent the deal is impossible to say, but such an imminent collapse of Iran's economy was highly improbable.
International sanctions on Iran in response to its nuclear program had indeed driven its economy into crisis earlier this decade. But even before the nuclear deal, Iran had cut budget expenditures and fixed its balance of payments. It was still exporting oil and importing products from countries such as Japan and China.
International economists as well as U.S. officials did not foresee an imminent economic collapse, though Trump theoretically could be citing a classified or otherwise non-public assessment...
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By now, most people take Trump's word with the same credibility of Tariq Aziz and his claim of defeating Americans as the American tanks were rolling behind him. So, this is nothing more or less than the 3 million illegal voters claim or the claim that Obama tapped his phone.
Thanks to Mr. Edward Snowden, my rights to privacy has been partially restored and this e-mail might not be illegally collected or read by our Government until the politicians try to find a way to take it away again.
Reject occupation, If the bar code starts with 7 29 put it back on the shelf
“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King
If sanctions and abject poverty was going to cause the collapse of the dictatorial regimes in the world, N. Korea and many African regimes have had vanished by now.
But, why take my word for it. Trump should tear up the Nuclear Deal, as he promised, form a coalition of the Europeans, Asians, Russia and China, as Obama did, and re-introduce the sanctions and more.
Oh yeah, and while at it, start shooting at Sepah's speed boats in the Persian Gulf and put sanctions on Sepah as well.
And don't forget about the one-state solution and moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, bringing the factory jobs back, open the coal mines, repeal ObamaCare, building the wall, deporting 12 million illegals and banning the Muslims.
And yet, nothing and really nothing deters his supporters (and I'm not talking about multiple userids here.......pahleeez) from backing this guy. From gabbing pussy to baseless allegations of voter fraud to claims that he's been taped and a myriad of other crap, this guy spews nothing sticks to him.
Anybody else, left or right would be long gone, but not this guy!
Teflon Don, the Con!
Blah....blah.....blah...
And the nagging and making false claims continues.