Deal or No Deal: The Iran Nuclear Challenge
On December 14, the Heritage Foundation hosted an important webinar “Deal or No Deal: The Iran Nuclear Challenge” on how a Biden administration will handle the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran — specifically the danger of Biden’s reported plan to quickly rejoin the nuclear deal. Three leading experts on Iran’s nuclear program spoke at the webinar: Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow James Philips; David Albright, a physicist and founder and President of the Institute for Science and International Security; and Center for Security Policy President Fred Fleitz.
Phillips in his presentation gave a history of Iran’s noncompliance with the nuclear deal and the hurdles to any negotiations to improve the agreement or negotiate a follow-on pact. Albright discussed mounting evidence of Iranian noncompliance with the nuclear deal based on documents on Iran’s nuclear program stolen by Israel. Fleitz urged Biden not to rejoin the nuclear deal because it is fatally flawed, there is irrefutable evidence of Iranian cheating, and because of significant changes in the Middle East since the end of the Obama administration.
Videos of the speakers’ presentations can be found below:
- The Iran nuclear negotiations: Why the humpty dumpty JCPOA should not be renewed - December 7, 2021
- Time to end diplomacy with Iran and admit Trump was right - December 3, 2021
- The US should walk out of the Iran nuclear talks - November 30, 2021