Iran has taken a step that could prove more troubling than Iraq’s
FROM BAGHDAD airport, where an American air strike killed him, to his hometown of Kerman, about 1,300 kilometres away in Iran, hundreds of thousands of people filed into the streets to mourn General Qassem Suleimani on January 5th. They came out in Baghdad and Tehran, and the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. Top officials in both countries joined the crowds of people beating their chests for Iran’s most prominent commander.
Iran has taken a step that could prove more troubling. On January 5th it said it would no longer abide by any of the operational restrictions imposed by the deal it signed in 2015 with America and five other world powers that curbed its nuclear programme. “Iran will continue its nuclear enrichment with no limitations and based on its technical needs,” said the government, referring to the process of spinning uranium in centrifuges to obtain its most fissile isotope.
Iran has left itself with room to manoeuvre. It has not formally abandoned the pact, which would alienate the remaining signatories. Nor has it committed to speeding up enrichment. But should relations with America deteriorate further, Iran is signalling that it might pile up more uranium and enrich more of that stockpile to near-weapons-grade levels—steps that would shorten its path to a nuclear bomb. And it need not stop there.
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