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Iran's Nuclear Advances Complicate U.S. Bid to Revive 2015 Deal
(Wall Street Journal) Laurence Norman - Over the past year, Iran has made significant advances in its ability to amass enriched uranium, complicating U.S. efforts to revive a 2015 deal aimed at curbing Tehran's atomic ambitions. American and European officials estimate that Iran could now gather enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon within two to three months. Iran's breakout time was supposed to remain at one year at least until 2026. "There will come a point - but we're not there yet...where if Iran continues to advance its program and there's no deal, then it will be very hard, if not impossible, to recapture the nonproliferation benefits" of the original deal, U.S. special Iran envoy Rob Malley told CNN on Wednesday. Over the past year, Iran has deployed most of its stock of advanced IR-2M centrifuges - which are three to four times faster than the centrifuges Iran is permitted to use under the accord.