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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 10:42 PM Mar 2015

Iran Nuclear Deal Backed by Large Majority of Americans

Iran Nuclear Deal Backed by Large Majority of Americans

Program for Public Consultation

http://public-consultation.org/studies/Iran_march15.html

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Negotiations over a proposed deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program are coming to a head while a new study finds a clear majority of Americans – 61 percent – support an agreement that would limit Iran’s enrichment capacity and impose additional intrusive inspections in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions. This included 61 percent of Republicans, 66 percent of Democrats and 54 percent of independents.

The alternative option, being promoted by some members of Congress, calls for ending the current negotiations, and increasing sanctions in an effort to get Iran to stop all uranium enrichment. This approach was recommended by 36 percent.

The study was conducted by the Program for Public Consultation and the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, with Steven Kull and Shibley Telhami as principal investigators. It was fielded with a representative sample of 710 Americans drawn from GfK’s probability-based KnowledgePanel.

The deal endorsed by a majority specified that Iran could enrich uranium only to the level necessary for nuclear energy, and provided that it accepts intrusive inspections to ensure that Iran is not building nuclear weapons. Some sanctions would be gradually removed, provided that Iran upholds the agreement.


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Iran Nuclear Deal Backed by Large Majority of Americans (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2015 OP
I still find it staggering... Scootaloo Mar 2015 #1
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
1. I still find it staggering...
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 10:53 PM
Mar 2015

That the absolute and only cause for the "panic"... is prejudice against Muslims. This assumption that oh The Muslims are going to lob nukes at the "infidels" and don't care if they get nuked back! There's been no basis for this "crisis" except for this assumption. And of course, Americans, so traumatized since having our mass-murdering rapist dictator deposed and a CIA plot exposed in Tehran, will believe it all.

Thankfully we just got an earful of one of the least trustworthy people in the Middle East telling us to trust him... Which seems to have inspired some doubt.

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