Reviving Iran nuclear deal a complicated equation

In the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to do no work that would get it closer to building nuclear weapons for 15 years in return for the lifting of international trade sanctions.

Both Israeli and U.S. senior military officers concluded the old deal was better than nothing, and U.S. President Joe Biden was of the same mind, when last autumn he instructed his diplomatic people to stop trying to screw extra concessions out of the Iranians, writes Gwynne Dyer. Wikimedia Commons photograph by Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 17, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—As with most remarriages between the same partners, the participants are not exactly starry-eyed. They have just figured out that the old deal was better than no deal at all. The news that the obscurely named Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is back in force may reach you e...

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