BLITZER: The United States is imposing new sanctions on Iran after that country's president announced a partial withdrawal from the nuclear deal it signed with six Western countries. Our National Security Reporter, Kylie Atwood is here in THE SITUATION ROOM with the latest. Kylie, the Trump administration clearly intensifying its maximum pressure campaign against Iran.</s>KYLIE ATWOOD, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER: And that could be one of the reasons for the pronouncements that we've heard from Iran. So, today Iran said it plans to scale back on the commitments to the Iran nuclear deal but not overnight. It's essentially saying to the signatories of the deal, you have an option here. If you ease the restrictions on our oil and our banking sectors, then we'll stay in the deal. If you don't, 60 days from now, we are going to be in non- compliance with the deal. And this comes as you point out as the U.S. continues to ramp up the pressure. They put new sanctions on Iran's metal exports today. That's a very important sector to the Iranian economy, it's the third largest revenue when it comes to exports and the U.S. says that more sanctions are coming. They are not stopping here.</s>BLITZER: And how close was Iran before the nuclear deal to actually develop some sort of nuclear weapons capability?</s>ATWOOD: Estimates range. So, it was from about three to six months before the Iran nuclear deal that experts believed that it would take Iran to have enough time to develop, essentially a fuel to develop a nuclear weapon. But now, that breakout time with the deal in place is about a year. The question is, if Iran does move forth in 60 days and gets out of this deal, then what? How do the signatories to the deal respond? They said just over the past day they could come back with sanctions but also how does the U.S. respond? Would they go after some of these nuclear facilities in Iran?</s>BLITZER: Important issue. Kylie, thank you very much for that report. Kylie Atwood reporting. And just ahead, a very different story. A royal debut as Harry and Meghan show off their new son and announce his name.
U.S. Imposes New Sanctions As Iran Says It Will Partially Withdraw From Nuclear Deal