Thread by @JewhadiTM

Biden is not smart.

Biden's Iran policy is deeply flawed thehill.com/blogs/congress…

https://twitter.com/garycgambill/status/1334504128026988545

Biden “falsely claims the Iran nuclear deal that the Obama/Biden administration negotiated has kept Americans safe. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was flawed in many ways.

For starters, it failed to do anything about Iran's terrorist activities, which is significant considering they are the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world and a leading cyber threat.

By releasing nearly $100B to Iran and omitting their nefarious activities from the agreement, not did the Obama/Biden admin reward bad behavior, but they gave Iran more money to finance its destabilizing foreign policy which includes arms transfers to terrorists & missile tests.

Iran is led by a revolutionary regime, and if the objective was to keep Americans safe, then any agreement reached with Iran should have included all the various ways they put American lives in danger.

Aside from the issues the JCPOA didn't address, the agreement failed to achieve its stated objective of curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions, and instead helped provide Iran with what analysts have called a "patient pathway" to a nuclear weapon.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stated that they could not verify if Iran was living up to its agreements.

From a lack of inspections at military sites, to exceeding its agreed upon stockpile of heavy water, the deal was filled with broken promises and unenforceable mandates.

Biden claims that his new plan "would prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," but that certainly wasn't the case in the original agreement. Under the JCPOA, the most stringent requirements on Iran were to be lifted after five to 15 years.

It is important for people to remember that there was more bipartisan opposition to the JCPOA in Congress than perhaps any other Obama/Biden administration initiative during their time in office.

There was concern about the process of the administration signing the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, despite public objections.

If this deal was so good for the country, then Obama and Biden should have been able to secure bipartisan support in Congress before involving our allies in such a large undertaking.

Additionally, a bipartisan agreement would have almost assuredly had the backing of our top Middle Eastern ally, Israel, who staunchly opposed the framework of the deal.

Failing to secure broad support for the agreement showed a lack of leadership on the part of Joe Biden and deviated strongly from our country's tradition of largely conducting our foreign policy in a bipartisan fashion.

Furthermore, blaming the Republican Trump administration for not wanting to follow through on an agreement that congressional Republicans never supported is like asking someone to pick up the tab for a happy hour they were never invited to.