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‘Iran just basically put its wish list into this’: The Trump-Iran agreement gives Iran a free pass on nuclear treaty violations pending final deal

  • Trump’s memorandum of understanding may stop the fighting, but it doesn’t settle the bigger worry — whether Iran could still move toward nuclear weapons.
  • The deal leaves Iran’s nuclear program at the “status quo,” and the IAEA hasn’t had access to verify Tehran’s uranium stockpile for about a year.
  • The MOU calls for supervised downblending of enriched uranium (a reversible step), and critics say a firmer, more verifiable final deal must be reached within the next 60 days.
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