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October 17, 2017

How to Fix the Iran Deal

Missiles, penalties, and sunsets.

President Trump’s decision not to recertify the nuclear agreement with Tehran, known formally as the JCPOA, presents an opportunity to correct some of its many flaws. To Robert Satloff, the most important modifications include changing its sunset clauses so that Iran won’t be free to build a bomb eight years from now, limiting the Islamic Republic’s ballistic-missile program (deliberately ignored by the original deal), and instituting an effective set of penalties. On the last two points, he writes:

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