Crunch time for revival of Iran nuclear agreement

lizkat

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Negotiators have agreed on their best effort at text for a revived version of the JCPOA. Waiting for reactions in Washington and Tehran...


If this can't be salvaged, it is one thing that many around the world will hold against Donald Trump personally reponsible for as far as foreign policy is concerned. It's well known that many senior figures in the Trump administration --his own cabinet and staff appointments-- had advised him repeatedly not to withdraw unilaterally from the JCPOA, providing evidence from IAEA that his insistence that Iran had violated the terms was incorrect. So it was on Trump alone that the USA withdrew. His advisers may not have been fans of the agreement themselves, but they were not willing to sign onto a lie that the reason for exiting the deal was Iran had reneged on technical compliance with terms of the deal.

Sure the JCPOA was only ever to buy some time, but that time really mattered, and in that time there really was room to explore further ways for Iran to come in out of the cold and rejoin the larger community, to restore interstate economic opportunity for themselves in the region and globally as well. There's still this chance. If a deal can't be put back on track now, it becomes much more difficult to find ways to try to draw Iran in from its current status, which serves exactly no one.
 
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