Sanctions, threats, deadlines: How the Iran nuclear deal is faring

Headlines shout daily about escalating tensions between the United States and Iran. The Trump White House, hardening a “maximum pressure” campaign of increased sanctions and hostile rhetoric, is now portraying the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group as a “clear and unmistakable warning” to Iran.

The optics would seem to suggest that, exactly one year after the U.S. withdrew unilaterally from the Iran nuclear deal, a new war in the Middle East hangs in the balance. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he does not

Is the nuclear deal fraying?Are U.S. sanctions and pressure on Iran working?What does Iran’s ultimatum to Europe mean?What does the U.S. naval deployment indicate?