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February 21, 2022

The New Iran Deal Exposes the Weaknesses of the Old One

Why centrifuges matter.

The 2015 agreement to restrain the Islamic State’s nuclear program—formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—promised to keep the ayatollahs at least a year away from being able to produce a bomb for the subsequent fifteen years. While the JCPOA was deeply flawed, the new version currently being negotiated in Vienna is apt to achieve even less. In a clear explication of the technical details, Andrea Stricker writes:

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