Trump again criticizes Obama’s Iran nuclear deal; experts say it had effectively limited Iran’s nuclear program

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Mars Finance News, June 6 — In a recent interview, Trump once again criticized the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying the deal “almost amounts to giving Iran nuclear weapons,” and stating that any future new agreement with Iran will be “far better than the Obama-era agreement.” However, multiple U.S. experts in the field of nuclear nonproliferation said that while the JCPOA is not perfect, it had succeeded in limiting Iran’s uranium enrichment activities and in establishing what is, to date, the most stringent international verification mechanism. Former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said that the agreement’s most important achievement was significantly improving transparency, enabling the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to conduct unprecedented oversight of Iran’s nuclear facilities. Reports say that after the Trump administration exited the deal in 2018, Iran gradually stepped beyond the related limits, sharply increasing its stockpile of enriched uranium and cutting some verification measures. At present, Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is far beyond what the agreement allows, with some uranium enrichment levels reaching 60%. Analysts believe that after the escalation of the U.S.-Iran conflict and attacks on nuclear facilities, the difficulty of reaching a new agreement in 2026 is clearly higher than it was ten years ago. Experts from the Arms Control Association said that a new agreement would need not only to address Iran’s advances in nuclear technology, but also to deal with uncertainties arising from U.S. and Israeli military actions and interruptions in verification. Former U.S. Energy Secretary Moniz said the core principle of the JCPOA is “don’t trust, but verify,” while the Trump administration chose a different strategic path, and its effectiveness has not yet been proven to be better than the previous agreement.
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