May 12, 2018 | by pachyderm
Many people are losing their minds regarding the US President Donald Trump pulling out of the JCPOA. The US's involvement was put in place by the stroke of a pen, an unconstitutional enactment by Executive Order by ex-President Obama. Presidents don't make international treaties on their whims. They are presented to Congress for debate, amendment, and passage or nullification. This simply was not the case and President Donald Trump had every right to rescind the Executive Order.
There is no further binding process needed on Iran than the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the date on which Iran became a signatory on July 1, 1968 and ratified during February through March of 1970. The NPT's objectives are the peaceful use of nuclear energy, stopping the proliferation of new nuclear states, and complete nuclear disarmament worldwide.
It was reported in November 2003 by the IAEA that Iran had breeched the terms in 2003 by repeatedly failing to meet safeguard obligations to the treaty and not declaring its uranium enrichment activities using hundreds of centrifuges for the purpose. The UN Security Council demanded that Iran suspend their enrichment program in 2006. However, the Iranians thumbed their noses and, after a brief suspension of the enrichment program, resumed operations.
It is fact that Iran has been uncooperative with inspectors, secretive, and duplicitous in attempts to comply with IAEA inspections. Their past and current actions and pronouncements are contemptuous of the NPT, the international community as a whole, dangerous to the prospects of regional peace and the collective security of the globe.