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The deal was sound, Only if one redefines "sound" to "indefensibly ass".
The result of those agreements was that Iran did not have any uranium enriched to weapons grade at any time that the deal was in effect. IOW, the agreement effectively neutralized the nuclear threat of Iran as much as any agreement can.
Except that it didn't. You only need a few percentage points of enrichment to make uranium go boom. Every additional point just means the weapon gets smaller.
Obama's deal left them with fairly highly enriched uranium. Ergo, the deal sucked. For that and many other reasons.
So, no - the JCPOA was a pretty sold deal which worked to induce Iran away from taking affirmative steps towards getting a nuclear weapon: a combination of economic "carrots" and very formalized enforcement processes to make sure that the terms for getting those "carrots" were abided by.
Sorry, but it did no such thing. It let Iran off the hook entirely and even paid them to do it.
