In 2015, after twenty months of negotiations involving the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, and the European Union, Iran agreed to ship 98 percent of its enriched uranium out of the country, accept strict limits on future enrichment, mothball most of its centrifuges, and allow continuous inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency. In exchange, international sanctions were lifted and approximately $50 billion in frozen Iranian assets was unfrozen. The IAEA verified Iranian compliance. International monitors were on the ground. Iran’s breakout time to a nuclear weapon stretched from two or three months to more than a year.
The deal was working. That is not a partisan claim. That is what the inspectors found.
