Eight years after six world powers struck the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to temporarily block Iran’s nuclear program in return for the removal of heavy economic sanctions, the United States and the Islamic Republic appear to be on the verge of adopting yet another arrangement aimed at resolving the same dispute.
Neither time nor the two sides stood still during the interim years, during which the administration of former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and Tehran countered by stockpiling enriched uranium and interfering with International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring of its facilities.
How viable is this reported substitute of an “understanding” rather than an agreement, that would freeze the existing status of Iranian nuclear development rather than dismantle it? And would such a deal garner necessary domestic support after final disclosure of the official details?
