Uranium Enrichment Explainer
FILE - In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Masoud Pezeshkian, second right, listens to head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami as he visits an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2025.
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The interim deal between the U.S. and Iran is supposed to usher in a two-month period that would address Tehran’s nuclear program. Preventing Iran from attaining a nuclear bomb is a key reason that President Donald Trump says he launched the war alongside Israel in February. But the tentative agreement leaves little runway to negotiate the long-running sticking point. The previous nuclear pact between Iran and world powers that Trump pulled the U.S. from in his first term took many months to negotiate. There's deep skepticism among Republican and Democratic lawmakers and others that the new deal will have any effect on nuclear talks.
Pakistan says that the deal to end the war in Iran is taking ‘immediate effect’ after both sides have signed it, but that there will still be a formal signing ceremony on Friday. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said leaders of both the U.S. and Iran had signed the agreement and endorsed him as a mediator. He said in a post on X that the deal “shall enter into force with immediate effect and as a first step, Islamic Republic of Iran will instantly reopen the Strait of Hormuz and the United States of America will immediately lift the naval blockade.”
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