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  "type": "article",
  "title": "US and Iran Agree to Peace: What Trump Actually Won After Scrapping Obama's JCPOA",
  "summary": "The United States and Iran have agreed to a peace deal, with the MoU set to be signed in Switzerland on June 19. Here is the full story of the Iran deal from 2002 to today, and how Obama's pact compares with Trump's.",
  "content": "What the United States and Iran Have Agreed To\nAfter years of confrontation, the United States and Iran have agreed to a peace deal. Under it, the two sides have committed to an immediate halt to fighting on every front in the Middle East, including Lebanon. Almost all the terms are now public, and the biggest one is clear: Iran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Alongside this, the Strait of Hormuz, widely seen as the most sensitive nerve of the world's supply chain, will be reopened to everyone at once. The deal will take effect the moment the MoU is signed in Switzerland on June 19.\n\nYet, in the middle of this announcement, analysts are stuck on one question. After tearing up Obama's JCPOA, what big advantage did Trump actually secure that the earlier deal did not already offer? To understand the answer, it helps to look at the entire history of the Iran deal.\n\nWhere It Began: 2002 and the First Nuclear Suspicion\nThe whole story begins in 2002, when the world learned for the first time that Iran was working on a nuclear programme. It emerged before the United States that Iran was running nuclear activity at Natanz and Arak, meaning it could reach a nuclear bomb in the future. After this revelation, pressure on Iran from the United States, Europe and the IAEA began mounting rapidly.\n\nThe Weight of Sanctions and Iran's Crisis\nThings grew harsher after 2006. The United Nations, the United States and Europe imposed a range of sanctions on Iran. These struck Iran's oil and banking sectors directly, pushing both into a deep crisis. As a result, Iran started searching for a way out of the sanctions.\n\nObama's Approach and the 2015 JCPOA\nIn 2009, Democrat Barack Obama became US President, succeeding Republican George W. Bush. Obama's thinking was different. He believed that neither sanctions nor war was a real solution to the problem. With this view, the groundwork for secret talks between the United States and Iran was laid in 2012-2013, with Oman acting as mediator. At that time Iran was led by Dr. Hassan Rouhani, who himself favoured a deal with the West.\n\nThese secret talks built a bridge to formal negotiations, and that is where the JCPOA took shape. In 2013 the two countries reached an interim agreement, after which talks continued for roughly two years among the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia, China and Iran. Finally, the JCPOA was signed in 2015.\n\nThe Key Terms of the JCPOA\n• Obama capped Iran's uranium enrichment at 3.67 percent.\n• The enriched uranium stockpile was limited to 300 kg.\n• Thousands of centrifuges were removed.\n• The IAEA was given wide-ranging inspection rights.\n• In return, the United States, Europe and the United Nations gave Iran relief from economic sanctions.\n\nTrump Steps In and Walks Out of the JCPOA\nDemocrat Obama's presidency began in 2009, and his second term was ending in 2017. From the campaign of late 2016 onwards, Republican candidate Donald Trump had been calling Obama's pact a 'bad deal' and a 'one sided deal'. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States in January 2017, and the very next year, in May 2018, he pulled America out of the JCPOA.\n\nThe Arguments Trump Gave for Leaving\n• Trump felt that some restrictions in Obama's deal were set to expire after 15 years, meaning the deal was not permanent.\n• His argument was that this could push Iran back toward building a nuclear bomb in the future.\n• Trump believed Obama's deal was confined only to the nuclear programme, whereas he wanted to fold in Iran's ballistic missile programme as well.\n• Obama's deal did not cover Iran's regional activities, which include backing Hezbollah, the Houthis and other Shia militias.\n• He held that easing sanctions on Iran would only strengthen it, and in turn strengthen its allied bloc across the Middle East.\n• Trump also believed that tough sanctions could force Iran into a better and broader agreement.\n• For all these reasons, Trump rejected Obama's 2015 deal.\n\nTrump's Second Term and the MAGA Angle\nDonald Trump returned to power for a second time in 2025 and took charge as the 47th President of the United States. This time he came back on the slogan of MAGA, Make America Great Again. The peace deal with Iran, due to be signed on June 19, is also being framed through this same Make America Great Again lens.\n\nObama vs Trump: Two Deals, the Difference, and Which Is Better\n• Trump does not want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, and Iran too has repeated its commitment not to build a nuclear bomb.\n• Trump has bound Iran on uranium enrichment, but the picture on this is still not clear.\n• Trump has paved the way for Hormuz to open, though even in Obama's time the Strait of Hormuz was not closed.\n• Experts believe Obama's deal was far clearer than Trump's, with a better and more comprehensive system for monitoring the nuclear programme.\n• Trump failed to bring Iran's missile programme and the issue of its regional groups into the deal, the very points he had repeatedly criticised Obama over.\n\nThe Biggest Question\nThat is precisely why many experts are now asking a blunt question. If this was the deal that had to be struck in the end, then what was the need to drift toward conflict with Iran at all?\n\nWhat this means for you\nWhat this means for you:\n\n• Oil and prices: With the Strait of Hormuz reopening for everyone, pressure on crude oil supply eases, which can raise hopes of relief on petrol, diesel and cooking gas prices in a big oil importer like India.\n• Markets and investors: A halt to fighting in the Middle East lowers global uncertainty, which is generally read as a positive signal for stock markets and investor sentiment.\n\nQuestions & Answers\n\n1. When and where will the US-Iran deal be signed?\nThe MoU for this peace deal will be signed in Switzerland on June 19, and it will take effect the moment it is signed.\n\n2. What is the most important condition in the deal?\nThe biggest condition is that Iran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, and the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened to everyone immediately.\n\n3. When did Trump pull the US out of Obama's JCPOA?\nAfter being sworn in as the 45th President in January 2017, Trump withdrew the United States from the JCPOA in May 2018.\n\n4. Which deal do analysts consider better, Obama's or Trump's?\nMany analysts believe Obama's deal was clearer and had a better, more comprehensive system for monitoring the nuclear programme.",
  "url": "https://trendkia.com/en/world/us-iran-shanti-samajhauta-obama-ki-jcpoa-radda-karane-ke-bada-trnpa-ne-akhira-ky-1223",
  "category": "World",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-16",
  "tags": [
    "US-Iran peace deal",
    "JCPOA",
    "Donald Trump",
    "Barack Obama",
    "Iran nuclear program",
    "Strait of Hormuz",
    "Middle East"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "site": "TrendKia"
}