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Trump To Announce Whether U.S. Will Break The Iran Nuclear Deal

Ahead of the announcement Tuesday, a look at what the sanctions do, what a U.S. pullout would mean and how Iran could react. European allies warn that Iran could renew nuclear weapons development.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (left) meets with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department Monday. Johnson argued for the Trump administration to continue to be a party to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. "The wisest course would be to improve the handcuffs rather than break them," Johnson wrote in the <em>New York Times.</em>

President Trump says he will announce Tuesday whether he is going to keep the U.S. in the Iran nuclear deal. This comes after Trump has allowed the deal to stay in place through the first 15 months of his presidency while frequently criticizing it and threatening to pull the U.S. out of it.

In recent weeks, foreign leaders including France's Emmanuel Macron and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have come to Washington to try to persuade Trump to stick with the deal.

If Trump pulls out, it would be

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