At the start of 2022, US officials said negotiations with Iran were in their “final stretch," optimistic that a restored nuclear deal was within reach. One year on, that same deal looks doomed.
President Joe Biden said as much in a newly surfaced video from early November, telling a member of the public that the nuclear accord he campaigned on restoring was “dead.” And although the administration quickly walked back his comment, Biden acknowledged what some experts have been saying about the deal for months.