Iran Nuclear Deal

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, widely known as the Iran nuclear deal, was an international agreement finalized in Vienna on July 14, 2015, between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, together with the European Union. Under its terms Iran agreed to sharply limit its nuclear fuel cycle activities, including reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium and the number of centrifuges it operated, and to accept expanded monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency, in exchange for relief from nuclear related sanctions imposed by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union. The agreement took effect on January 20, 2016, and drew sustained opposition from Israel, Saudi Arabia and Republicans in the United States Congress. The United States withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, undermining the economic relief Iran had been promised even as the deal's other parties sought to keep it alive. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/