America wants to lower tensions with Iran. Good

IRAN CANNOT jcpoarival and Taiwan for headlines, but it could soon prove as either. Its nuclear-weapons programme has put its regime in a position to dash for a bomb. Because full-blown negotiations are impossible, the threat could yet draw the Middle East into war—including through American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. That is why it is good that the Biden administration is seeking to lower tensions.Since 2018, when President Donald Trump a pact between Iran and a group of world powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (), Iran has faced fewer constraints on its nuclear programme. The original pact lifted some sanctions; and in return, Iran agreed to abide by a set of commitments until at least 2030, including that it would cap its uranium enrichment at 3.67% and accept intrusive inspections. The goal was to freeze at a year the time needed to enrich a bomb’s worth of uranium.