Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Iran's new atomic bomb

The war was about nuclear weapons. The negotiation is about something else entirely.

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Elise Labott
Jun 01, 2026
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Let’s start with what President Trump actually accomplished in Iran.

He set out to eliminate the Islamic Republic’s nuclear threat — the thing that had kept American presidents up at night for three decades, survived the Obama nuclear deal, survived Trump’s first-term maximum pressure campaign, and survived endless rounds of diplomacy that produced agree…

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