Richard Nephew is the Bernstein Adjunct Fellow at The Washington Institute and former U.S. deputy special envoy for Iran.
Articles & Testimony
Actually enforcing them will require hard work by Western diplomats and experts in the face of opposition from Tehran, Beijing, and Moscow.
It’s back to the future on Iran policy. The U.K., France and Germany invoked the nuclear agreement’s “snapback provision” after years of threatening to do so in the face of Iranian nuclear defiance. This action will bring back into force by the end of September United Nations sanctions resolutions that were suspended as part of the 2015 accord. On paper, this action looks good. If all goes according to plan, it will give the U.S. powerful tools to isolate Iran by restoring sanctions on Iranian banking, shipping, oil and arms. But that outcome isn’t guaranteed...
