Bloomberg | Eli Lake: The U.S. has essentially revoked Irans right to enrich uranium. One of Irans greatest diplomatic achievements in recent years was getting the world to recognize its right to enrich uranium suitable for nuclear fuel. The Trump administration has now undermined it.
On Friday, the State Departmentrenewed some exemptionsto U.S. sanctions on Irans nuclear activities and ended others.
Therenewals initially attractedmore attentionthan the terminations. Yet make no mistake: One sanction that will now be reimposed, preventing Iran from sending enriched uranium to Russia in exchange for natural yellowcake uranium, could effectively kill the deal a realization Europeseems to have madeover the weekend.