nuclear enrichment program<\/a> as a likely sticking point, and broke it down in plain terms.\n <\/p>\n\n Iran will maintain that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal \u201cwas a pledge on their part not to build a weapon\u201d and a commitment \u201cto not acquiring the technology for a weapon or developing one of their own,\u201d said Radd, a senior fellow at UCLA.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe issue remains Iran\u2019s enrichment to breakout levels, basically to a threshold beyond what the NPT treaty allows, and close to nuclear bomb territory,\u201d he added.\n <\/p>\n
\n The NPT is an international treaty aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, promoting peaceful nuclear energy and advancing global disarmament.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo from Iran\u2019s position, it has the absolute right as a sovereign nation to enrich uranium and the United States is maintaining that Iran has forfeited the trust and the right, under the NPT, to enrich uranium. So there in lies the impasse.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cThe United States believes that Iran has essentially forfeited that, given its past actions at deceiving international inspectors, and Iran feels it does not need to give that up, especially now that it has the strait of hormuz as a leverage point.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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How the US kickstarted Iran\u2019s nuclear program\n <\/p>\n
President Dwight Eisenhower\u2019s \u201cAtoms for Peace\u201d program was a deal between the US and developing nations, which unknowingly laid the foundations for one of the most controversial nuclear programs in the world. CNN\u2019s Leila Gharagozlou reports.<\/p>\n
How the US kickstarted Iran\u2019s nuclear program<\/p>\n
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