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Will Iran Cheat? The Reliability of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

| March 14, 2016

The Deal is Done, but Can It be Sustained? asks Sven-Eric Fikenscher in this new article for the Yale Journal of International Affairs:

"On July 14, 2015 the P-5 plus 1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) and Iran concluded a landmark agreement to verifiably restrict Iran’s nuclear activities—largely for a ten to fifteen-year period of time—in exchange for sanctions relief. Since then the agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has already weathered several storms. Domestic critics in both Washington and Tehran assailed their administrations for having made too many concessions but eventually failed to thwart the accord. Iran moved on to meet its key obligations and on January 16, 2016, the JCPOA’s official implementation was announced..."

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For Academic Citation: FIkenscher, Sven-Erik.“Will Iran Cheat? The Reliability of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.” Yale Journal of International Affairs, March 14, 2016.

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