The Iranian Nuclear Deal, Explained

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The Obama administration has been campaigning on behalf of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran since it was announced last week—even as the exact details of the proposed deal are still unclear. What we do know is that the JCPOA will turn Iran into a nuclear threshold state. Even Obama says so. The deal pushes Iran’s breakout time back to a year, Obama told NPR, but that’s only for the first ten years. “In Year 13, 14, 15,” Obama said, “they have advanced centrifuges that enrich uranium fairly rapidly, and at that point, the breakout times would have shrunk almost down to zero.”

In other words, the deal guarantees that a future White House is going to have to deal with an Iranian bomb within at least 15 years.

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