Q&A What is the Iran nuclear deal? Under the deal, Iran unplugged two-thirds of its centrifuges, shipped out 98% of its enriched uranium and filled its plutonium production reactor with concrete. The nuclear deal is also enshrined in a UN security council resolution that incorporated it into international law. Iran announced its partial withdrawal from the nuclear deal a year later. “The newly announced Iran sanctions are symbolic,” said Jarrett Blanc, a former senior state department official now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Source: The Guardian June 25, 2019 17:09 UTC