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July 24, 2019

Iran Was Violating the Nuclear Deal Even Before the U.S. Withdrew

Aided by flaws in the agreement itself.

To read the critics of the Trump administration’s current Iran policy, one might think that Tehran had fully observed the terms of the 2015 agreement until well after the U.S. renounced it, or even that it has not yet violated the terms at all. Not so, writes Emily Landau. While the Islamic Republic abided by limits on how much uranium it could enrich and on the size of its stockpiles of heavy water and already-enriched uranium, it violated the deal in ways that are in fact of greater concern, among them:

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