La reciente decisión de Donald Trump de no certificar el acuerdo nuclear con Irán implica que el Congreso de los EEUU deberá reconsiderar sus términos y formular recomendaciones en un plazo de sesenta días. Asimismo, el resto de firmantes, Rusia, China, Reino Unido, Francia, Alemania y la UE, tendrán que reaccionar ante las nuevas exigencias norteamericanas que eventualmente se puedan producir.  La reapertura de este pacto, que se logró tras años de laboriosa gestación, por parte de Washingt...

by Alejo Vidal-Quadras. Recently, President Donald Trump stated that he had come to a decision about whether or not to certify to Congress that Iran was complying with the 2015 nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Under the U.S. law, the president is required to provide such certification every 90 days, and the next deadline is in mid-October. The issue has become polarized in the U.S. But politics notwithstanding, the issue is of paramount importance f...

by Alejo Vidal-Quadras The Islamic Republic of Iran has demonstrated a long pattern of obstruction regarding inquiries and investigations into its nuclear activities, and that pattern persists more than two years after the conclusion of a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers. The conclusion of that agreement in 2015 was to some extent dependent upon the neglect of certain controversial issues, including access to Iranian military sites, where the regime apparent...

By Alejo Vidal-Quadras   Attending Hassan Rouhani’s inauguration in the midst of a series of revelations is morally and politically unconscionable, writes Alejo Vidal-Quadras, as it suggests the EU will look the other way on actual abuses as long as there are pleasant-sounding promises coming out of a small faction within the Iranian regime. Alejo Vidal-Quadras is a Spanish professor of atomic and nuclear physics and was vice president of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. ...