Wendy Sherman on where we are as Iran shrugs off nuclear deal
The killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a powerful figure in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in a drone attack Friday ordered by President Trump has triggered a cascade of potentially incendiary consequences. In the days after the deadly attack, Trump exchanged retaliatory threats with Iranian officials on social media. On Sunday, Tehran announced it would no longer honor the stockpiling and processing limits on nuclear materials at the heart of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the official name of the 2015 nuclear agreement Iran made with Western leaders. Though Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal in May 2018, Iran’s decision was widely viewed as a deliberate escalation of tension aimed at the White House. Leaders from the European Union, which is still a party to the nuclear deal and hopes to salvage it, determined Monday that Iran’s recent violations did not warrant the imposition of new sanctions. As U.S....