Mike Pompeo has 2 months to fix what got his predecessor fired: Iran deal

The agreement that reins in Iran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief was a global effort, backed by all the world's major powers from the European Union to Russia and China

Rex Tillerson argued that the Iran nuclear deal isn’t broken, one reason he just got fired. His successor has less than two months to fix it.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, agrees with his boss’s conviction that the 2015 accord is a disaster. The question is whether that stance makes him more or less likely to win some international backing for America’s campaign to rewrite the deal. Tillerson’s efforts in that direction yielded few results -- and if there’s no progress by May 12, the president has threatened a unilateral withdrawal.

“The Trump administration with Pompeo