Trump Left the Nuclear Deal. Now Iran’s Fighting Back.
The Islamic Republic has followed through on its threat to breach the nuclear accord. What happens next could determine whether the deal can survive.
Iran threatened for weeks, and today the threat came true: Foreign Minister Javad Zarif announced that Iran had committed its first significant breach of its nuclear deal with world powers, breaking a limit on its uranium stockpile.
At issue is a mere few kilograms of uranium out of hundreds Iran is allowed under the deal. Iran has taken only a small step toward a bigger stockpile. Where it goes from here will determine whether that turns into a giant leap out of the deal.
“What they do next will tell us if it’s a breach that portends the demise of the deal, or a determination by the EU in particular that it
