For all intents and purposes, the deal was working. In 2016 and 2017 the international atomic Energy Agency certified that iran had met its preliminary pledges, agreeing not to produce uranium to the point of nuclear enrichment. But in 2018, President Donald Trump pulled the u. S. Out of the agreement. Unraveling the deal, rendering it ineffective and causing a Ripple Effect for years to come. Trump called the deal quote, rotten and onesided and reinstated devastating backing of oil sanctions on iran that crippled its economy once again. Iran and all the other signatories to the deal kept their part of the bargain. America didnt. So in 2019, iran began enriching uranium at higher levels and developed new centrifuges for uranium enrichment. And last year, the united nations inspectors found around was enriching uranium to close to Weapons Grade levels