A nuclear deal could end the Iran war. What was Obama’s version Trump rejected?

Iran’s nuclear program is the main reason U.S. President Donald Trump said he had to attack the country on Feb. 28. Resolution of the dispute over that program could help move the two sides beyond a ceasefire and toward a negotiated end to the war.Mr. Trump has vowed for years to deliver a “much better” deal preventing Iran from attaining a bomb than what he calls the “disastrous” one concluded under President Barack Obama more than a decade ago.A comprehensive deal ending the Iran war could be the president’s last best opportunity to make good on his pledge. Why We Wrote This In the absence of renewed U.S.-Iran talks, the combatants are wrangling over the Strait of Hormuz. But the main dispute between the two is still Iran’s nuclear program, and President Donald Trump’s pledge to secure a better deal than did President Barack Obama. The Iran nuclear deal of 2015 – formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA – was reached after more than two years of intense, marathon negotiations largely between the United States and Iran, though other signatories to the deal were all the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany.At