Trump’s better nuclear deal terms would leave Iran only months away from a nuclear weapon and would prevent Israel from attacking at its best opportunity in decades. If there is a nuclear deal, the latest leaks are starting to fill in the blanks. US President Donald Trump will get to say – correctly – that he got more from Iran in his nuclear deal than former US presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
This would be true in at least two potential areas: having American nuclear inspectors in Iranian nuclear facilities and not just IAEA inspectors who are not American, as well as a complete pause in enriching uranium, even at low levels, for a symbolic time period of possibly around a year.And yet The Jerusalem Post understands that top Israeli officials are far more fearful of the potential Trump nuclear deal with Iran than they were even of the 2015 JCPOA deal, which most of them did view as highly flawed.
Regarding Biden, there was never a final deal, but the most progress Biden almost achieved was an Iranian freeze on 60%-enriched uranium. This was part of a Biden deal in the fall of 2023, which would have led the US to direct around $6 billion of frozen funds back to the Islamic Republic. (Read More)
