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The JCPOA was, if you boil the 109 pages down to two sentences, basically
"If you heavily restrict uranium enrichment for 10 to 15 years, and don't have anything weapons-grade, China, Europe, the US and Russia will actually do trade with you. If you don't, we won't."
I still don't see why the U.S has the right to make those restrictions with other countries.
It just sounds like extortion.
I mean, no country has the ‘right’ to trade with anyone. If I don’t agree with what another country does, it’s perfectly reasonable for me to choose to not trade with them or only agree to trade with them under certain circumstances. It’s not so much extortion as it is a ‘no shirt, no shoes, no service’ policy. Extortion is more using the threat of physical consequences to get someone to acquiesce to a position - essentially what the US is doing right now.
I mean wasn't the threat of violence always implied though in this specific situation?
I mean the U.S said. Give us almost all of your energy resources, and we will let you trade with a few other countries.
And if you don't then we won't allow anyone who matters to do any business with you.
Then they also had other sanctions put on them when when they were giving them all that uranium. Like the individual citizen wasn't allowed to use systems like PayPal. Which restricted them from doing international freelance work.
I knew an artist from Iran. He told me they also couldn't get most companies to ship things there.
And couldn't sell his art on platforms that used PayPal.
All these rules were to keep Iran and it's people from prospering. This deal from the u.s was agreed upon by Iran out of fear. Not because it was mutually beneficial. That's extortion.