US Military Flies 2 B-52 Bombers Over Middle East in Show of Force

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% :Iran now enriches uranium up to 60 percent purity, which is an unprecedented level for the country.
41% : Tensions between Washington and Tehran are also over recent confrontations between U.S. forces and Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East.
40% : Former President Barack Obama in 2015 promoted the deal as the "best option" to keep Iran from wielding nuclear arms, even temporarily.
40% : Some analysts have previously said that Tehran has enough 60 percent-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least one nuclear bomb.
38% : It comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran as officials from both nations continue to struggle to come to an agreement on resuming the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, as well as recent confrontation between U.S. forces and Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East.
30% : It required Iran to restrict its nuclear program in return for the lifting of economic sanctions from the United States, the EU, and the United Nations.
28% : U.S. Central Command was expanded last year to include Israel, a move seen to encourage regional cooperation against Iran under former President Donald Trump.
28% : Although the U.S. Central Command did not mention Iran or tensions over the 2015 nuclear deal, the United States has frequently dispatched B-52 bombers to the region as hostilities persist between Washington and Tehran.
21% : Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran in May 2018, in an effort to force the country's ruling Islamic regime to change a plethora of activities that the Trump administration deemed unacceptable.
14% : President Joe Biden and European leaders have criticized Iran over what they called "accelerated" and "provocative nuclear steps" taken by the Iranian regime as it continues to enrich uranium.

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