Although U.S.-Israeli military action did enormous damage to Iran’s nuclear weapons program and set it back decades, some on the left are trying to rewrite history to claim these strikes would have been unnecessary if President Donald Trump had not withdrawn from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — the agreement the Obama administration negotiated with Iran, supposedly to stop its pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
JCPOA supporters insist this deal successfully contained Iran’s nuclear ambitions and that Tehran was complying with its terms. Among the apologists are Robert Malley and Richard Nephew, both of whom helped negotiate the original agreement and later worked on the Biden administration’s unsuccessful effort to revive it. They argue that remaining in the JCPOA would have better served global security and blame Iran’s subsequent nuclear advances on Trump’s withdrawal.
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