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Iran Is Unlikely to Rush Back into Compliance with the Nuclear Deal
(CNBC) Frederick Kempe - The Iran nuclear deal, which never was blessed by congressional vote, didn't address Iran's regional misbehavior or its ballistic missile and advanced weapons delivery development. Yet precisely such Iranian advances were on display in the September 2019 Iranian cruise missile and drone strikes on Saudi oil fields and then its ballistic missile attacks on U.S. military positions in Iraq on January 8, 2020. Moreover, today's Iran is unlikely to rush back into compliance with its earlier agreement in the run-up to its June elections, where the hardliners are determined to further marginalize so-called moderates. Having accumulated more enriched uranium and installed more advanced centrifuges than the JCPOA allows, Iran's leaders won't abandon those gains easily. The writer is president and CEO of the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington.