April - The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) informally called “The Iran Deal”, is an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program made in July 2015, between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States - plus Germany), together with the European Union. It addressed an issue of alleged nuclear danger highlighted by Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu before a US Joint Session of Congress. He held up a cartoon of a bomb, ready to blow, to represent what he called the imminent threat of an Iran nuclear bomb. The Iran Deal defused this tension. It lifted US and UN sanctions against Iran, for a rollback of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium and enrichment capacity, all monitored by inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The Iran Deal lowered the tension, so “The Iran Bomb” was rarely mentioned as an issue. Then, in 2018, Pres. Trump withdrew from the Deal. Despite this, Iran upheld its commitment, until recently, when it re-started nuclear enrichment, and threatened the IAEA inspections.
What to do? Both President Biden and Iran’s President Rouhani, have said that they favor a resumption of the Deal. Unfortunately, Rouhani says, ‘first lift the sanctions’, while Biden says, ‘first get rid of the newly enriched uranium and restart full inspections.’ More troubling, Conservatives in both countries are adding conditions that would sink the deal, and there is the June 18 deadline of the Iran Presidential election, when a conservative is expected to be elected.
TAKE ACTION: Urge Pres. Biden to avoid any renewed military action against Iran, and the "“You go first." - "No you go first”," trap. Ask him to work out a sequence of mutual steps, to build confidence, as was done successfully in the JCPOA. We MUST resume this Deal!
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