Iran signals ability to restore nuclear program if needed

The deal “is critical to ensuring that Iran’s nuclear program is and will remain exclusively peaceful, which is profoundly in the national security interest of the US and the worldwide community”, according to the statement. Under the nuclear deal, Iran is allowed to use heavy water in its modified Arak nuclear reactor, but must sell any excess supply of both heavy water and enriched uranium on the global market. While the deal lifted European Union and United Nations sanctions on Iran’s banking and energy sector, unilateral U.S. sanctions on the Iranian economy still remain.

Since Iran appears to be playing fast and loose (at a minimum) with the nuclear deal – as it did with its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations for years – you have to wonder what we don’t know at this point.

“There was no better deal to be had”, Mull said. “But I’m not as optimistic as others that this is going to reach its 10-year anniversary”. Number one, the world is safer today because conflict in the region is not calculated on the basis of the potential of a nuclear confrontation or nuclear explosion, and because we have the ability to be able to work through some issues which we’ve seen, for instance with our sailors who stumbled into Iranian waters and within 24 hours we were able to get them out.

The US and its partners – Britain, China, France, Germany and Russian Federation – say that is enough time to discover the effort and intervene.

Iranian protestors set U.S. and Israeli flags afire during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, July 01, 2016.

Trump, like other Republican leaders, has vowed to tear up the Iran deal if he becomes president in January.

Falling roughly along partisan lines, this latest attempt to block the Boeing deal comes after last week’s passage of two amendments sponsored by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) to block the Boeing deal, which were included as part of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act for FY 17 (H.R. 5485).

In the USA, there are few signs that a year of implementation has swayed either opponents or supporters to think differently.

What Is the Iran Deal?

At the same time, dozens of pieces of legislation in Congress suggest unwavering opposition.

Rep. Eliot Engel of NY, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the GOP bills have “zero chance of becoming law”, since they are unlikely to pass the Senate and would face a near-certain veto from Obama if approved by Congress. “The opposition is as intense and as focused as it was last summer”.

“Providing additional situational awareness of Iran’s nuclear program is vital for the long-term health of this agreement”, the letter read. “But at the same time they’ve been very smart about doing things to impede the administration from pushing back against Iran’s malign activities”.

Despite multiple warnings about how Iran would not comply with the legislation, the White House moved forward with the signatures and, as expected, Iran has not been a cooperative partner as they promised.

“Iran has a lot of homework to do”, Mull said.

Has Obama made the deal irreversible?

Washington-U.S. President Barack Obama said the nuclear deal forged with Iran a year ago has succeeded in hampering the progress of Iran’s nuclear program and spared the world more conflicts.

“The administration said ‘absolutely not”.