Biden says in video that Iran nuclear deal 'is dead, but we're not going to announce it'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Iran is widely viewed as being on the brink of producing nuclear weapons using enriched uranium produced in its own power plants.
44% : In August, Iran offered to resume its compliance with JCPOA, but that offer was met with skepticism by U.S. officials.
43% : But Iran reneged on key provisions laid out in the deal, refusing access to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to nuclear sites and shutting off cameras that monitored activity at some facilities.
39% : On Tuesday, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby confirmed that the administration sees the negotiations with Iran as at an impasse.
29% : In a newly-surfaced video shot at a Nov. 4 midterm election rally in California, President Biden told a woman in attendance that the 2015 U.S. nuclear deal with Iran was "dead," but that his administration would not be making an official announcement confirming its status.
24% : Can you just announce that," the woman asks in reference to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the deal reached when Biden was vice president in the Obama administration that sought to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
13% : Several recent developments, including the indictment of an Iranian national alleged to have plotted to kill John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, the attack on author Salman Rushdie and the seismic protests in Iran for women's rights, further complicated the pathway to restoring the terms of the deal.

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