{"id":2258,"date":"2020-05-01T04:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2020-05-01T04:25:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:25:52","slug":"iran-and-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Iran and nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/iran-nuclear-power.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/iran-nuclear-power.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/iran-nuclear-power-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/iran-nuclear-power-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has continued to vex the international community with it&#8217;s ongoing nuclear program.  The U.S., the European Union, and the UN Security Council established an &#8220;Iran Nuclear Deal,&#8221; with checks and balances on that country&#8217;s nuclear program, but Trump has pulled the U.S. out of the deal and went back to imposing sanctions on Iran.  There has been ongoing &#8220;&#8230;suspected nuclear weapons research done in Iran.&#8221;  To this point, specifically, America has 2,700 deployable nuclear weapons.  Iran sees America as adversarial.  Common sense says that, of course, Iran would be racing to develop nuclear weapons to protect itself.  So&#8230; What if America started to &#8216;race&#8217; toward nuclear disarmament, taking the savings and helping, <em>way<\/em> more, poorer countries, like: Iran?  Do you think maybe God would honor this with a supernatural &#8220;missile defense system&#8221;?  Maybe, huh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has continued to vex the international community with it&#8217;s ongoing nuclear program. The U.S., the European Union, and the UN Security Council established an &#8220;Iran Nuclear Deal,&#8221; with checks and balances on that country&#8217;s nuclear program, but Trump has <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2258\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}