According to the most recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—the UN-linked international nonproliferation watchdog—the Islamic Republic continues to violate the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement. Majid Rafizadeh explains:

[Iran’s] ruling mullahs have increased their total stockpile of low-enriched uranium from 1.1 tons to 1.73 tons as of May 20, 2020. This is approximately eight times more than what the regime was allowed to maintain under the . . . nuclear deal, [under which] Tehran had been permitted to keep a stockpile of 447 pounds . . . and enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent. Iran is now enriching uranium up to the purity of 4.5 percent, and possesses more heavy water, [an important material for some kinds of nuclear reactors], than would have been permitted under the nuclear agreement.

Additionally, Tehran is still not allowing the IAEA to inspect its sites, an ongoing problem that, according to the recent report, has reportedly now raised “serious concerns” for international inspectors.

In addition, [Tehran] has refused to allow the IAEA fully to inspect its [suspected nuclear] sites, particularly those at military bases, where nuclear activities are most likely being carried out. . . . [O]ne of the most dangerous concessions that the Obama administration gave to the Iranian government was surrendering to its demand that military sites would be out of the IAEA’s reach. Because of this concession, at various high-profile sites such as the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran, the regime has been free to engage in nuclear activities without the risk of inspection.

Are the U.S. and the UN happy to keep sitting idly by while the mullahs inch dangerously closer to a nuclear weapons breakout?

While it is commendable that administrators of several universities finally called upon police to crack down on violent and disruptive anti-Israel protests, the actions they have taken may be insufficient. At Columbia, demonstrators reestablished their encampment on the main quad after it had been cleared by the police, and the university seems reluctant to use force again. The school also decided to hold classes remotely until the end of the semester. Such moves, whatever their merits, do nothing to fix the factors that allowed campuses to become hotbeds of pro-Hamas activism in the first place. The editors of National Review examine how things go to this point:

Since the 10/7 massacre, Columbia’s Jewish students have been forced to endure routine calls for their execution. It shouldn’t have taken the slaughter, rape, and brutalization of Israeli Jews to expose chants like “Globalize the intifada” and “Death to the Zionist state” as calls for violence, but the university refused to intervene on behalf of its besieged students. When an Israeli student was beaten with a stick outside Columbia’s library, it occasioned little soul-searching from faculty. Indeed, it served only as the impetus to establish an “Anti-Semitism Task Force,” which subsequently expressed “serious concerns” about the university’s commitment to enforcing its codes of conduct against anti-Semitic violators.

But little was done. Indeed, as late as last month the school served as host to speakers who praised the 10/7 attacks and even “hijacking airplanes” as “important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in.”

The school’s lackadaisical approach created a permission structure to menace and harass Jewish students, and that’s what happened. . . . Now is the time finally to do something about this kind of harassment and associated acts of trespass and disorder. Yale did the right thing when police cleared out an encampment [on Monday]. But Columbia remains a daily reminder of what happens when freaks and haters are allowed to impose their will on campus.