News Analysis
After an international nuclear watchdog condemned Iran for failing to cooperate with inspectors on Nov. 21, for the second time in five months, Tehran’s response was to promise to ramp up uranium enrichment with “new and advanced centrifuges.”
Such brinkmanship has been typical for the past several years, and will only fuel concerns that Iran is building a nuclear bomb.
But how have we got to this point? And what might happen when President-elect Donald Trump—who jettisoned the Iran nuclear deal and doled out sanctions—is back in the White House?
Olli Heinonen, a former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the next two months will be telling as far as both the Trump administration’s plans and those of Iran, which will likely have more teeth….