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U.S. Frets That Time Is Running Out to Revive Iran Nuclear Deal

  • Tehran is reducing the ‘breakout time’ needed to build a bomb
  • Election of hard-liner Raisi has raised U.S. doubts further
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President Joe Biden’s team is beginning to grapple with the possibility that the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran he promised to revive may soon be beyond saving.

Hopes for a quick re-entry to the accord that Donald Trump abandoned have dimmed after six rounds of negotiations in Vienna, with little sign of when a seventh might start. The stalemate is compounded by Iran’s technological advances and the election of a new hard-line president, raising doubt about whether the agreement reached in 2015 would be sufficient to constrain the country’s nuclear ambitions anymore.