Trump’s transactional instincts could help forge a new Iran nuclear deal | Mohamad Bazzi

The president has a chance to make good on his reputation as a dealmaker as Iran moves closer to a nuclear weapon

In May 2018, Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed American sanctions that crippled the Iranian economy. Trump tore up the 2015 agreement, which had taken years for Iran to negotiate with six world powers, under which Tehran limited its nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions. Trump insisted he would be able to negotiate a better pact than the one reached by Barack Obama's administration.

Today, in his second term as president, Trump is eager to fix the Iran deal he broke nearly seven years ago.

Mohamad Bazzi is the director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern studies and a journalism professor at New York University.