U.N. says Iran is still complying with the nuclear deal


Iran remains in compliance with 2015's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal, The Associated Press reported Monday, citing a new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessment.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog said its inspectors had all necessary access to nuclear development sites in Iran and determined Tehran has not exceeded the deal's limits on heavy water and low-enriched uranium stockpiles. The IAEA conducts quarterly reports on Iranian compliance.
Whether that compliance would continue was thrown into doubt when President Trump withdrew the United States from the deal and re-imposed sanctions the agreement had suspended. However, Iran has continued to participate, as have China, Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, the other remaining signatories.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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