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We intend to provide a comprehensive examination of the nature of the Iran nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and its short- and long-term implications for the Middle East. Conceived as a sequel to our initial book, which was published in 2015, on the Iran nuclear negotiations, Iran Nuclear Negotiations: Accord and Detente Since the Geneva Agreement...

The Iran nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), represented a momentous diplomatic achievement. It put to rest a vexing, and potentially dangerous, nuclear crisis that had bedeviled the international community for more than a decade and had resulted in international sanctions against Iran while also raising the possibility of foreign military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The culmination of intense, marathon negotiations between Iran and several major powers discussed in the preceding chapter, the JCPOA was conceived as a win-win for the negotiating parties and a net plus for nonproliferation causes, by establishing that “Iran will not engage in activities that could contribute to the development of a nuclear device.”

This chapter is devoted to a theoretical study of the Iran nuclear accord, by drawing on the theoretical literature on nonproliferation as well as the broader theories and paradigms in international relations. Amplifying a point already made in our previous book on the Iran nuclear negotiations, our purpose is to deepen our understanding of the issue through the lens of an alternative theoretical...

Our aim in this chapter is to examine the legal status of the Iran nuclear agreement and to evaluate the different perspectives that have provided alternative interpretations of the JCPOA’s significance from the prism of international law, as a prelude to the presentation of our own perspective on this subject. This is a particularly important issue in light of the fact that US president Donald Trump had targeted the JCPOA,In a speech before a pro-Israel lobby group in March 2015, Trump stated that his “number-one priority” was “to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran,” yet he followed that up with the promise to “enforce it like you’ve never seen a contract enforced before.” Elsewhere during his presidential campaign, Trump promised to renegotiate the Iran deal by “forcing the Iranians back to the bargaining table.”

Since the signing of the nuclear accord in July 2015, contending perspectives on the impact of the JCPOA on Iran—its economy, military and strategic power, and region—have generated illuminating debates.

This chapter seeks to present a detailed and analytical perspective on Iran’s foreign policy and the significant effects that the resolution of the nuclear crisis through the achievement of JCPOA have had...

Since its adoption, the Iran nuclear accord has elicited mixed reactions in the Middle East in general and the Persian Gulf region in particular. The wide spectrum of reactions, ranging from enthusiastic approval (e.g., by Oman, Iraq, Algeria), to guarded approval (e.g., by Egypt, Turkey), to hostility and opposition (e.g., by Israel), to paranoid political reaction (e.g., by Saudi Arabia)...

In the previous chapter, the impact of the Iran nuclear accord on the political landscape of the Persian Gulf was examined in detail, which could be accomplished only by contextualizing the Persian Gulf affairs in broader Middle...

In bringing this narrative to a close after having surveyed the diverse impact of the Iran nuclear deal on the Middle Eastern political landscape in the preceding chapters, we intend now to provide the readers with our prognostication of various scenarios for the...

 

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