Updated February 2022 1. Misconception: The Iran Deal included a U.S. payment of $150 billion to Iran The Facts: The money that Iran receives from complying with the agreement is not a direct payment from the U.S. government. Instead, the funds are Iranian foreign assets, which the international sanctions regime prevented Iran from accessing. Under […]
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One Year Later: Seven Facts about the Iran Deal
By: Abigail Stowe-Thurston and Erin Connolly What is the Iran Nuclear Deal? In July of 2015, the United States and the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China), and Germany (together known as the P5+1), as well as the European Union, negotiated an agreement with Iran […]
Iranian Negotiations: Worth the risk?
After years of negotiations, Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany) agreed to a deal providing sanctions relief in return for international monitoring and severe restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program. The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) established unprecedented access to Iran’s nuclear facilities and created dialogue between […]
Hiroshima: A Nuclear Past and Future
After weeks of speculation, it’s finally been confirmed: President Obama will make a visit to Hiroshima after the G-7 Summit later this month.
The U.S. Needs to Stop Throwing Weapons at Problems
The survival of the Iran nuclear agreement in Congress sent countless members of Congress scrambling for new ways to demonstrate their opposition to the deal and to throw sand into the gears required to carry out the agreement. One of the more preposterous ideas put forward was to send Massive Ordnance Penetrators (or MOPs) to Israel. MOPs are essentially really, really big bombs that have the capacity to penetrate up to 200 feet into the ground.
