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Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal Without the U.S.
President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement on 8 May 2018.
This unilateral act deals a serious blow to the accord, but Europe and Iran can still work together to salvage it.
- ICG
President Donald J. Trump has unilaterally withdrawn the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and announced the reimposition of sanctions against Iran.
Since January, when President Trump declared that he would pull the U.S. out of the nuclear agreement with Iran unless Congress and Europe addressed several “disastrous flaws”, the UK, France and Germany, collectively known as the E3, made significant progress toward accommodating the…