Why Donald Trump should reconsider the JCPOA with Iran? |

Long before George W. Bush dubbed Iran as one of the antagonists in the ‘ axis of evil’, ties between Washington and Tehran were frosty to say the least. There have been no diplomatic relations between the two since 1980s. Tehran’s nuclear program has been seen as a threat to the region and Washington considers Tehran — a chief exporter and state sponsor of terror.

The United States along with the other E3+3 members of the UN had imposed a series of complex and hard-hitting sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran as a punishment for its nuclear development. Furthermore, the United States’ close partnership with Saudi Arabia and Israel, only exacerbates the acerbic relationship between Iran and the world’s most powerful nation.

However, there was a chance to bring this acrimony to an end with the landmark Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The Obama administration and its allies in Europe felt that the JCPOA would help with bringing Iran to the negotiating table. The US and the west would lift the sanctions in exchange for Iran promising to curtail its nuclear development.

Among the most important, the deal called for reducing Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium by 97 percent and banning them from possessing any uranium potent enough — that it could be used to fuel a bomb. A…