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Jesse Kline: Iran's terrorist regime emerges victorious

The Iranians have come out of this war better off than when they went in

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Following the initial signing of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) to end the conflict in Iran on Sunday, Iranian officials described it as a complete and total victory. After the document was finally made public on Wednesday … well, let’s just say that it’s hard to argue with that assessment.

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The United States and Israel went into the war stressing the need to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, degrade its ballistic missile capabilities, halt its support for its terrorist proxies and perhaps even create “the conditions” for regime change.

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Before the MOU was made public, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hoped the deal would facilitate the removal of enriched uranium, limit Iran’s missile production and dismantle the so-called Axis of Resistance.

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Yet the fate of the Iranian nuclear program is still up in the air, as Iran merely reiterated that it “shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons,” a stance it has long held in public as it enriched uranium to near-weapons grade, while a final agreement is negotiated over the next two month, likely longer.

The extraction of Iran’s highly enriched uranium also seems unlikely, as the deal only says that the “minimum” requirement will be to have it down-blended “on site under........

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