First, they haven't broken the parts of the NPT that they have ratified.
Yea, they have. Consistently and repeatedly. If you want to play the "
akshually the parts they violated were never
ratified" card then you can just throw that argument in the bin. Their leadership signed and agreed to these terms and they broke them.
Most recently they enriched past 60%. There is no use for that besides nuclear weapons.
Second, they have been trying to renegotiate the JCPOA that Trump pulled us out of, and they have been willing to go back into the original deal that would limit their enrichment.
Nah. Their current official policy is one of no negotiation. "We won't negotiate while under the threat of coercion" or something along those lines.
Which is just idiotic. The whole point of negotiation is to remove the threat of coercion.
And frankly - this isn't a negotiation. If we want a level of transparency they better damn well give us the level of transparency that we ask for.
Their only "negotiation" should be, "tell us what transparency you require and we will provide it to you".
Full and unlimited transparency is not that much to ask for.
Third, they've stated they want to maintain enrichment as part of a deterrent strategy that makes total sense given Israel's language toward them and the fact that Israel's proxy has military bases surrounding their country.
Well, that kind of proves the point that they did indeed want nuclear weapons. Or they wanted to be "closer" to building nuclear weapons.
The whole point of the NPT is that they are expected to abandon that desire.
I can understand the desire for wanting nukes as a deterrent. But life isn't fair, and if they choose to pursue that goal as they have, there are consequences for that.
Finally, I'm not sure we "sure as shit know" anything except what the Israeli government is telling us. The last IAEA vote was 19-3 with 11 other countries abstaining from the vote.
We know for a fact that the IAEA determined that Iran was in breach of IAEA terms. That much is a fact.
Whether you trust the IAEA is a different story. If you want to make the case that IAEA is a bunch of lying shitbags, I'm open to hearing that case, but I haven't seen any evidence to support that claim.
Besides, I don't think it's really in dispute that Iran has enriched to 60%. If that single fact alone is true, then it justifies all of this.
Finally, finally, if there's one country in the ME that hasn't signed the NPF, allows no inspectors, has nuclear weapons, actively threatens their neighbors, and consistently acts on those threats, it isn't Iran.
Yes and someone should have intervened before Israel was allowed to have nukes, because now it's too late.