When then-President Barack Obama, along with six world powers, including Russia and China, negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, even its most ardent supporters acknowledged it was flawed.
After President Donald Trump took office for his first, nonconsecutive term, Defense Department leaders, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford damned it with faint praise. The pair called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action “better than nothing.”
While the JCPOA kept Iran in check when it came to enriching uranium needed to make a nuclear bomb, it did little to constrain the other aspects of becoming a nuclear weapons state, such as developing warheads and missiles. And importantly, it allowed Iran to maintain a massive nuclear infrastructure that was
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