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U.S. Allies in Europe agreed to snap back international sanctions on Iran that were in place before President Obama's 2015 nuclear deal.

As Russia pounds the Ukrainian capital with its biggest air strikes since Vladimir Putin's

summit with President Trump, and Taiwan moves to ramp up its defense budget and deterrence against

a potential Chinese invasion. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues on the editorial page, Elliot Kaufman and Kate Batchelder

O'Dell. The big diplomatic news on Thursday was a letter released by the foreign ministers of the

United Kingdom, France, and Germany saying that they believe Iran to be insignificant non-performance

of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, and they hereby

invoke the process known as the snapback mechanism.

This is a letter addressed to the United Nations Security Council.

It goes through some of Iran's failures to live up to its expectations under the deal,

exceeded the maximum allowed uranium stockpile, for instance, restarted, prohibited uranium enrichment activities.

Elliot, what do these snapback sanctions entail? And how big of a win is it for the U.S.

diplomatically that these three European countries are now

moving to trigger that snapback mechanism?

The diplomatic win is substantial, and it's one that has been waited for for a long time.

You detailed quite well Iran's violation of various nuclear commitments. But that's all been true

since 2019. It's gotten worse since then, but what's really changed is Europe now has the will

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