U.S. President Donald Trump and his team had several red lines that they used to justify the U.S. war against Iran. At a press conference on Wednesday, Trump largely brushed them aside.
Explaining his decision to agree to an interim peace deal, Trump repeated his insistence that the country would never get a nuclear weapon. Yet he went on to suggest that Iran should have the right to enrich uranium, be allowed to develop ballistic missiles and get access to billions of dollars in frozen funds.
Those three things have been at the center of the debate around how to approach Iran for years, dating to the 2015 agreement that the U.S., under President Barack Obama, and other great powers signed with Iran to limit its nuclear program.
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