A Really Bad Deal: The Iran Nuclear Deal and Its Implications

Abstract

With the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Iran has been handed an important diplomatic victory. As a result, Iran can keep its nuclear infrastructure, something which the negotiators for the P5+1–-the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the US, the UK, France, Russia and China) plus Germany–-said from the outset should be dismantled. It has also let Iran off the hook of having to come clean about its constant cheating over the years concerning its nuclear agenda. And in the short run, a far more important outcome of the deal is that Iran will be able to free up billions of dollars to continue its regional agenda of influencing and destabilising countries in the Middle East.