Thursday, November 19, 2020
Trump’s 'maximum pressure' on Iran is about to end in failure - The Washington Post
...[W]hile economic sanctions have inflicted deep pain on the Iranian economy and ordinary Iranians, they compelled Iran's rulers to resume building up their stockpile of enriched uranium, which may now exceed 12 times the limit set by the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran is theoretically closer to creating a nuclear weapon than it was when Trump took office. "According to a range of intelligence assessments, that deal was achieving its intended goal of restricting Iran's enriched uranium supply," wrote Post columnist Jason Rezaian. "But then Trump ordered the United States to withdraw from it unilaterally in 2018. Rarely has a foreign policy failure been so obvious."...
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