July 14 marks a year since Pres Barack Obama announced an unsigned agreement with Iran on its nuclear program, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), perhaps the most important diplomatic event in recent memory. A majority of Congress and Americans opposed it; Obama considers it his ...
President Trump officiallyannounced on Tuesday that the U.S. intends to no longer participate in the 2015 internationally-accepted Iran nuclear deal,formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and will now re-impose sanctions against Iran. "The U.S. will withdraw from the...
CIA doesn't assess that Iran is making nuclear weapons:Weissgold says, "We do not assess right now that Iran is in the process of making a nuclear weapon. But what we do assess is that Iran is doing more and more to be ready to make a nuclear weapon." Success as CIA analyst:Weiss...
has called for Iran's military sites to be visited by the IAEA". Also, Nikki Haley was one of Trump's main promoters for cancelling the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and she's currently pushing for a walking away from the nuclear ...
No significant negotiated deal was reached with Iran on its nuclear program until the JPA, ie. JCPOA, in 2014. The JPA requires Iran “ to remove two-thirds of its installed centrifuges and reduce its current stockpile of enriched uranium by 98 percent” (“ Iran Nuclear Deal” 1). The ...
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki al-Faisal has warned Biden against pursuing a deal with Iran and especially re-entering the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iranian nuclear deal. Turki, who is a former Saudi intelligence chief and Ambassador to the U.S. ...
help to close a deal on a mutual return to full implementation of the JCPOA and lay the groundwork for Iran's return to the performance of its JCPOA commitments," the U.S. State Department said in its report to Congress, adding it is also designed to "constrain Iran's nuclear ...
US and EU officials suggest that some new codicil must be added to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to account for that. But no one has publicly said what exactly they will seek. Iran has also been demanding that Washington removeallUS sanctions. But the 2015 agreement did not...
NSPM-2 directs the U.S. Ambassador to the UN to “work with key allies to complete the snapback of international sanctions and restrictions on Iran.” The snapback mechanism allows any participant in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to trigger the re...
Iran is beginning to breach some of the limitations imposed on its nuclear program by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which it signed in 2015 and from which the United States withdrew in 2018. Initially, Iran exceeded the stockpile of low-enriched uranium it was permitted to ...