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This week’s R&D covers the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. The United States backed out of a 2015 framework on Iran’s nuclear program during the Trump administration, something that President Biden is looking to reverse. However, ongoing talks in Vienna, Austria between Iran and negotiators from the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, Germany, and France are deadlocked over Iran’s demand that all American sanctions against it end. Some fear that the U.S. not joining a new nuclear accord could mean that Iran gets a nuclear weapon, potentially triggering a military conflict with Israel, who fears a nuclear Iran threatens its survivability.
Ray Takeyh on what Iran wants from the nuclear talks and what could happen next. https://t.co/WkPsMMal9v
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) December 9, 2021
If US nuclear diplomacy with Iran continues to stall out, Israel should seriously consider ending its longstanding policy of nuclear ambiguity, argues Bennett Ramberg of @PacCouncil. https://t.co/S9rWP8kvac pic.twitter.com/w2ymTzTeZ8
— Project Syndicate (@ProSyn) December 9, 2021
At some point, the Biden administration will have to ask itself if it is really worth a war with Iran to prevent nuclear proliferation, @EmmaMAshford writes in this week’s It’s Debatable. https://t.co/4QW1ZiG62C
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) December 6, 2021
Today’s R&D covers Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has been under a cloud of suspicion since 2002 and the United States, France, Germany, Great Britain, China, and Russia – referred to as the P5+ 1 – have been negotiating with the Islamic Republic in an attempt to make its nuclear program more transparent. Last month, the talks between Iran and the P5+1 nations were extended through November 24. The United Nations is also seeking more proof from Iran that its nuclear program has a non-military purpose.
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