Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran at The Last word with Lawrence O’Donnell on MS.NOW

I'll DVR the rerun at midnight.

Access by nuclear inspectors. This is true.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/iran-rejects-us-demand-for-un-visit-to-military-sites-idUSKCN1B9182/

except the US held the position that Iran was in compliance at that time. So the assertion that Iran was doing something to justify the US pulling out is false.

If you want to say the US never should have signed on, or should have pulled out at a different time, that is a different conversation.

Time they were compliant. Literally months over a multi year agreement.

It’s is accepted that Iran was non compliant with the agreement as reported by . The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

It’s rewriting history to paint Iran as anything more than non compliant to the treaty.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164291

“IAEA Board Action: The IAEA Board of Governors formally declared Iran in non-compliance with its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) safeguards. This resolution was triggered by Iran's failure to provide full, credible explanations and answers regarding the presence of uranium particles detected at multiple undeclared locations.”

And use ctrl-F in my browser to search for the string "The IAEA Board of Governors formally", which you posted as a QUOTE ... there is no instance of even that small quote clipped from your post?

Cuz if you don't have an explanation for that observation?

Then this ruse is pretty weak

Also, that article is from 2025, and hence not relevant whatsoever to the timeframe at hand in this discussion.

What happened to change Iran's mind?

Frankly, Trump has dumped and denigrated every agreement and treaty. Is it possible that Iran was just good at reading the room once he came into office? Was Trump's win in 2016 the precipitating factor?

Trump made a new demand, without providing a reason, to have the inspectors go into MILITARY sites, not nuclear-related ones. He of course knew such a demand would be denied and he could then use that feint to claim non-compliance in his usual devious way. Interestingly, it seems some people are still pushing Trump's false claim.

Your article also states that at that time Iran was in full compliance with the agreement.

He creates chaos and he is solely responsible for creating uncertainty. So, yes, I do believe he demanded something that wasn't in the original deal just so Iran would step over the line, which would give him the power to terminate Obama's deal.

From the very piece you posted.. "So far, IAEA inspectors have certified that Iran is fully complying with the deal, under which it significantly reduced its enriched uranium stockpile and took steps to ensure no possible use of it for a nuclear weapon."

The trump admin made demands that were outside of JCPOA's terms.

I especially believe you when you say that.

Because you are singularly believeable.

The Wikipedia article is readily accessible to them, easy to understand, and sufficiently comprehensive that there is not much excuse for peddling such misinformation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal

some selected excerpts, emphasis mine:

Feel free to find one to nitpick. We'll all wait expectantly I'm sure.

Corrections of anything can be edited. Any argument can be made if you pick and choose was evidence is presented as fact.

“ IAEA Board Action: The IAEA Board of Governors formally declared Iran in non-compliance with its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) safeguards. This resolution was triggered by Iran's failure to provide full, credible explanations and answers regarding the presence of uranium particles detected at multiple undeclared locations.”

access to the known nuclear sites like Natanz and Fordow, as well as the ability to inspect suspected undeclared military sites.

It was a major diplomatic achievement which John Kerry led.

The Republican talking points, and the incompetence of our media propagating the republican talking point was and is disgraceful, and like the Iraq WMDs, our press has much blood on their hands.

While the Iran Nuclear Agreement had deficiencies, those could have been addressed and negotiated, instead the sociopath decided to start an unnecessary war because he threw out the Iran nuclear agreement under Obama.

Itself report Iran as non compliant.

Here's is a direct quote from the link you posted earlier. - "So far, IAEA inspectors have certified that Iran is fully complying with the deal, under which it significantly reduced its enriched uranium stockpile and took steps to ensure no possible use of it for a nuclear weapon."

trump unilaterally tore up the Iran nuclear agreement.

Not an insignificant event.

as a point to correct the deficiencies instead of bombing the crap out of the country, three separate times in the middle of negotiations, and the killing of thousands in the process, was pure incompetence.

Throwing out that agreement was from the same mindset that motivated bush to attack Iraq, overthrow Hussein, and empower Iran by upsetting the balance of power.

Pure incompetence, and the hits keep coming.

Tump started this garbage and why Iran blocked the inspectors. Why would they when the major party to this agreement walked away from it under trump.

Are you justifying the bombing of Iran?

to justify an action Trump took in 2018.

The arrow of time... How does it work?

complain about Iran violating the agreement when trump unilaterally tore it up?

our history with Iran and nuclear power/negotiations goes back decades.

If what I read years ago is correct, we helped Iran set up their nuclear program well before the 1979 date, not to mention the 1953 coup.