On Monday, Steve Witkoff went on Fox News and said that during negotiations last week, Iranian officials didn’t just admit they had enough enriched uranium for eleven nuclear bombs… They bragged about it.

That is not the language of a country boxed in by effective diplomacy. That is the language of a country that knows the guardrails are gone.

And those guardrails were torn out in 2018 by Donald Trump when he walked away from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Before that decision, Iran’s nuclear program was capped and monitored. The deal, negotiated under Obama, limited uranium stockpiles, restricted enrichment levels, and allowed international inspectors inside facilities. Iran did not have enough material for even one bomb without being detected well in advance.

That was the reality.

Trump scrapped it anyway.

He called it weak. He called it a disaster. He promised something tougher, something better, something that........

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