In recent months, Iran has taken a series of steps in excess of JCPOA limits, including openly enriching uranium to nearly 20 percent, far beyond what it had committed to do under the JCPOA, as well as producing uranium metal, a process with applications to nuclear weapons. In order to remove unnecessary obstacles to diplomacy, on February 18 the United States rescinded the previous administration’s travel restrictions for Iranian representatives. The U.S. also announced it had reversed the previous administration’s position on the snapback of multilateral UN sanctions on Iran.