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Will the U.S. Now Give Up Its Significant Leverage on Iran for Nothing?
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Iran is now enriching uranium to 20% purity, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday. Tehran has been a regional menace for 40 years. President-elect Joe Biden's National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, who helped negotiate the original Iran nuclear deal, said in an interview over the weekend: "We did believe that if you had the Iranian nuclear program in a box, you could then begin to chip away at some of these other issues. Obviously, that did not come to pass." Simply rejoining the deal means giving up significant leverage for nothing. Iran is escalating its nuclear enrichment to put pressure on the new U.S. Administration to rush back into the 2015 deal. It sees the same negotiators and figures it can outfox them again. But if the U.S. keeps the sanctions, and persuades Europe to join them, the pressure will be back on Tehran to make concessions.