Almost a year has gone by since the Iran nuclear deal since the Iran nuclear deal was presented to the world, and when assessing it, especially against the backdrop of Iran’s defiant behavior toward the US and aggressive conduct in the Middle East since then, one can hardly be complacent about what was achieved.

The original goal of the nuclear negotiation with Iran was to stop it from being able to produce nuclear weapons. In other words, to cause Iran to reverse course in the nuclear realm, hopefully reflecting a new willingness to cooperate and adhere to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to which it is a party. But the partial constraints imposed on its nuclear program – that Iran grudgingly agreed to in order to gain relief from economic sanctions – do not reflect what the P5+1 (the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) set out to do; nor do they warrant surrendering the leverage over Iran afforded by the sanctions regime.

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