July 20, 2019

Most of the Democrats running for president have promised to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal if they win the Oval Office.

It won’t be that easy.

By the time Inauguration Day rolls around in 2021, there might not even be a deal left — it has been hanging on by a thread since President Donald Trump pulled out last year. Even if it still exists, sections of the 2015 agreement are set to expire in the coming years, Trump’s punishing sanctions on Iran will be hard to fully unwind, Iran has elections that could put more anti-deal hardliners in power and Tehran has already threatened to unwind itself from the deal in the months ahead. Then, there’s the possibility that Iran and the U.S. could be in a full-blown military conflict.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/20/iran-nuclear-deal-democrats-1424113