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Looking Back and Looking Forward on the Iran Deal

| September 2, 2015

Intelligent men and women of good will are lining up on both sides of the fateful choice Congress faces in September: whether to approve or reject the nuclear deal with Iran. Part of what’s going on is an unfortunate mixing together of two quite different questions, one looking backward and one looking forward.  First, should the Obama administration and other major powers have gotten a better deal?  Second, given the deal the negotiators did produce, whatever its warts, is it better for U.S. and world security to accept it or reject it and try to force Iran to agree to a better one?

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For Academic Citation: Bunn, Matthew.“Looking Back and Looking Forward on the Iran Deal.” The Hill, September 2, 2015.

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