Just today, an Iranian dissident group came out with photographs that purport to show that Iran is secretly pursuing nuclear weaponry.
Viscerally, I would like to see the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action--commonly known as "the Iran nuclear deal") canceled.
As a practical matter, however, I am unsure just what that would accomplish.
The Iranian government has already garnered its goodies: the (roughly) 100 billion dollars in sanctions relief, plus the undoing of multilateral sanctions going forward. And it is very difficult to see just how we would get back that 100 billion dollars--or put the multilateral sanctions back in place. (Easier, probably, to put the proverbial toothpaste back into the tube.)
So a cancelation of the Iran deal would leave them with all the goodies, while allowing them to (legally) pursue nuclear weapons.
The only place to go, then--it seems to me--would be to go to war with Iran.
And that is something that very few people have an appetite for.
Thoughts?