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And after unilaterally pulling out of the JCPOA, it's not a surprise that Iran didn't believe that the U.S. would fulfill that promise. We haven't exactly been willing to live up to our prior commitments lately, which makes it somewhat hard to use new ones in dealmaking.
The JCPOA was stupidity on stilts, a deal designed to make Obama look like some kind of international statesman that he never was. It had an expiration date after which all sanctions were lifted and Iran was free to do whatever it wanted.
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Not a good plan.
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Except that's not likely to work. Sure, we can blow up bridges and power plants all day long - those are large fixed targets. But the stuff they use to shut down the straits isn't like that. It's small and portable and can be deployed from anywhere. They don't even need dedicated launch vehicles - these things are small enough to be carted around on ordinary commercial box trucks.
Then we're doomed.
Or we could seize a number of the islands that Iran uses including Kharg and make them bomb their own production equipment.
