No. of Recommendations: 11
To your point:
"Trump and his aides have heralded as a major accomplishment the eighth of the framework’s 14 paragraphs, which states: “The Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons.” Notice the word reaffirms.
The Obama-era nuclear deal, which Iran and six other countries signed in 2015 (and Trump scuttled three years later), stated, in its prologue, in almost identical language: “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.”
Even there, Iran “reaffirmed” the pledge because it had made the same promise when it signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970."
- Fred Kaplan/Slate
