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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
How do you know it's 2/3rd? We don't know how much they have, or even how many facilities they have working on enrichment.
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I misread. The article I initially read, basically an AP article, said around 2/3rds from the agreement 8 or so months ago, not this one. The article is just informative and I don't know where they got it from but whether that is true or not is not my point.
This was a very strategic win win move for Iran. They not only made a public move that makes them appear to only want nuclear power for peaceful purposes but they "cooperated" and now it will be much tougher if not impossible for the United States to get support for tougher sanctions against Iran. Not only that, but none of the big UN players had any part of the deal. It was Turkey and Brazil, with help from Russia and China, that pushed it through and this could represent a new alternative to American and UN dominance in the region.
This will not solve or even dent the Iran with nuclear weapons problem. It would be incredibly stupid for Iran to act like this if they were exploring nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only. It does show that the US will not have as much control over the world in the future and we could possibly see a change in foreign policy because of this. I want to see Obama's reaction against this.