Restoring the agreement, however, will be among his administration’s toughest foreign policy challenges. To deliver the nuclear deal in 2015, international negotiators agreed to sideline such topics, concluding that controlling nuclear proliferation was the more urgent goal. “They’re like the Bond villains,” Goldenberg said of the Trump administration. “They telegraph every day what they’re doing and why.”AdvertisementIn a twist, Trump’s sanctions may also provide the Biden administration with unexpected bargaining power. “Iran will return to the nuclear deal because their economy necessitates it,” said Karim Sadjadpour, a Middle East expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington think tank.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 21, 2020 11:02 UTC