{"id":13844,"date":"2021-08-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2021-08-03T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:41:49","slug":"strategika-74-the-prospects-of-a-new-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-74-the-prospects-of-a-new-iran-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika #74: The Prospects of a New Iran Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden administration came into office with the hope of reentering the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)\u2014the nuclear deal with Iran\u2014and thereby reduce tensions in the Middle East, an area of the world to which it would rather pay less attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/domestic-disorder-and-international-credibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Prospects of a New Iran Deal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Edward N Luttwak in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden administration and President Biden personally, like Obama and his administration before him, have promised that Iran shall not be allowed to acquire a usable nuclear-explosive device. Nor is that one of those political promises that can remain unfulfilled without immediate, highly visible, and highly damaging consequences for the President, the United States, and its allies and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/deterrence-riots-and-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Can U.S.-Iranian Relations be Remade?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleagues, Hy Rothstein in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden administration is taking steps to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the JCPOA, and lift sanctions imposed by the Trump administration that are inconsistent with the accord. The new administration also assumes that a resurrected JCPOA will be the basis for future agreements to address other areas of concern, including Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program and actions through its proxies that destabilize the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/americas-protests-and-ccps-dogma-inevitability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program Please read a new essay by my colleague, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika. The Biden administration came into office with the hope of reentering the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)\u2014the nuclear deal with Iran\u2014and thereby reduce tensions in the Middle East, an area of the world to which it would rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3Bi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11249,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-51-nuclear-proliferation\/","url_meta":{"origin":13844,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue 51: Nuclear Proliferation","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Should More Nations Have Nukes? 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