The Biden administration has reportedly given up on returning Iran to the core constraint of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Whereas the Obama administration believed that its nuclear deal would preserve a 12-month breakout period, Biden’s team no longer believes it is possible to put Iran’s uranium enrichment back in such a box. The U.S. intelligence community now appears to believe that Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb in a matter of weeks.