Deal or No Deal?

It's a great, transformative deal and will save the world from certain destruction. It's the worst thing that has ever happened to the world and will lead directly to our certain annihilation. There's no denying that the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran is a major step, but in which direction? Whom to believe? This is one of the most objective and informative examinations of the issue I could find, and its points echo those of other analyses. The conclusion seems to be that both sides have legitimate points but that, in the end, it is a risk worth taking: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21657803-nuclear-deal-iran-better-alternativeswar-or-no-deal-all-hiyatollah
   Digging down a little deeper into politics and international relations, we will always find the major corporations and the money trail. This commentary touches on that reality. It came from a site by a group called "EA Worldview," whose editor (and the writer of this piece), Scott Lucas, according to the site, is a professional journalist and professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham and was also once adjunct professor at Tehran University and a member of the Executive Board of the Center for American Studies and Research at American University Beirut: http://eaworldview.com/2015/07/iran-analysis-nuclear-deal-understanding-a-victory-that-comes-with-costs/
   Anyone who wonders "what we get out of it" or who is skeptical of money being a driving force here might want to read this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/20/western-businesses-eye-iran-after-un-backs-nuclear-deal and http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-offers-billions-in-arms-to-ease-mideast-anxiety-over-iran-deal/ar-AAcJHOX?srcref=rss